If only for their hair and makeup, John Galliano's ragtag boy
tribes often have an element of the living dead about them, so it
wasn't necessarily a shock when he took on Frankenstein for his
latest collection. Of course, in the hands of fashion's mad
scientist, the effect was less monster than Munster, as
increasingly cartoonish looks stalked the catwalk.

There were hints of things to come when the gantries that lined the
runway sizzled into life with showers of sparks, but scary
creatures initially took a backseat to sharply tailored gents in
shiny sharkskin suits and python-printed trenches. A purple coat
with a chiffon back was a typical Galliano exit-maker. It was
followed by an incongruous posse of surf bums en masse, a reminder
of Galliano's swimwear range. Then the designer unspooled his final
delirious passage of hell-bound