If genius is nothing more than childhood recaptured at will, then John Galliano's A/W 2000 show was indeed a heart-rending work of staggering genius, with topsy-turvy juxtaposition of oversized and overlapping garments inspired by the playful naïvety of a childhood immersed in the dressing-up box. Alongside the sublime taffeta ballgowns and overscale trenches came, appropriately enough, the ridiculous: a menagerie of animals and parade of garments crafted from common-or-garden cardboard but lavished with the painstaking care of the hautest of Couture.

Who better therefore to capture and celebrate the innocent, unbridled joy of John Galliano's inimitable invention than the late Tony Hart, artist, broadcaster and veritable legend of British children's television - at least, so reasoned the idiosyncratic minds of Camilla Morton and Katie Grand of POP. For the seminal magazine's inaugural A/W 2000 issue, Hart was enlisted to underscore the make-do-and-mend, dress-up-to-mess-up ethos of Galliano's show. For his ludicrous, ludique collection, the ever-madcap Galliano scaled up paper-doll dresses and origami animals to giant proportion, painted-by-numbers and standing proud from his models' bodies. In turn, Hart shrank these back down to adorn his diminutive plasticine sidekick Morph: first sporting a tabbed tutu as modelled by Liberty Ross, then a three-dimensional frog flattened to paper cut-out abstraction (paper eyelashes optional).

In Nick Knight's unique archive film, seen here for the first time, the magical vision of fashion editors breaking into smiles and laughter beside the catwalk (a phenomenon so rare it was video-recorded Chez Galliano for posterity) is echoed on set during the POP shoot, where style stalwarts Kate Grand, Camilla Morton and Liberty Ross are equally entranced by Hart's artwork.

Following Tony Hart's death earlier this year, this film stands as not only a record of a extraordinary shoot but as visual testament to the timely meeting of two quintessentially British creative spirits.