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Thursday 17 March 2011
Friday 11 March 2011
I personally commend Dior for dropping John Galliano from their line prior to their 2011 runway showing at Paris Fashion Week. For those of you have yet to catch wind of what happened earlier last week, a less than respectable video of Galliano, head designer and creative genius behind Dior, surfaced on the internet where Galliano flat out states that ‘He loves Hitler’ to a couple in a bar. Whoa, not exactly the smartest move to make on accounts of:
a) Natalie Portman, who had just signed an endorsement deal for Dior’s perfume Cherie, is Jewish, and stated that she was “deeply shocked and disgusted by the video.” and “as an individual who is proud to be Jewish, I will not be associated with Mr. Galliano in any way.”
b) Dior owns Galliano’s self named line, which, mind you, is financially backed by 92% from Dior; and it won’t be long before they pull out.
c) Racism is wrong. Enough said.
He followed up this statement with "People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be f---ing gassed." Ouch. May I please point out that the couple he was saying this to was not even Jewish? If he can’t handle his alcohol without losing control, he shouldn’t be drinking in public.
Some may argue that the remarks he chooses to make in his free time, has no correlation with business. This, however, I find to be a bit discerning. There’s overlap in everything. He has the image of Dior to uphold, one of the biggest fashion houses in the world that still creates actual haute-couture. He should have been honoured for the position he was in, instead of (forgive me for lack of a better word) pissing on his title. Bottom line is he was the face of Dior; and every second of his day should have reflected that.
Galliano still has yet to go to trial, where if convicted, can face up to six months in jail for his anti-Semitic slurs.
I will leave you with some recent photos of Dior's showing at Paris Fashion Week:
a) Natalie Portman, who had just signed an endorsement deal for Dior’s perfume Cherie, is Jewish, and stated that she was “deeply shocked and disgusted by the video.” and “as an individual who is proud to be Jewish, I will not be associated with Mr. Galliano in any way.”
b) Dior owns Galliano’s self named line, which, mind you, is financially backed by 92% from Dior; and it won’t be long before they pull out.
c) Racism is wrong. Enough said.
He followed up this statement with "People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be f---ing gassed." Ouch. May I please point out that the couple he was saying this to was not even Jewish? If he can’t handle his alcohol without losing control, he shouldn’t be drinking in public.
Some may argue that the remarks he chooses to make in his free time, has no correlation with business. This, however, I find to be a bit discerning. There’s overlap in everything. He has the image of Dior to uphold, one of the biggest fashion houses in the world that still creates actual haute-couture. He should have been honoured for the position he was in, instead of (forgive me for lack of a better word) pissing on his title. Bottom line is he was the face of Dior; and every second of his day should have reflected that.
Galliano still has yet to go to trial, where if convicted, can face up to six months in jail for his anti-Semitic slurs.
I will leave you with some recent photos of Dior's showing at Paris Fashion Week:
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