Mr. Galliano, Dior’s finest and most brilliant creative director for over 14 years already, has dashed the hopes of the brand and did the unthinkable last Thursday evening: he got into a quarrel with the French police in a café after he was accused of using an anti-Semetic insult.
Even the best stallion of the stable couldn’t soothe the zero-tolerance policy they have at Dior for racist comments and in France, where insults like this can lead up to 6 months in prison. It all happened at La Perle, a small, trendy bar where a couple informed the police after Galliano hurled an anti-Semetic at them. A clash of French and British ego’s was all there was needed to bring it down to a quarrel. The big bad wolf is now suspended by the CEO of Dior, Sidney Toledano, or was it all a misunderstanding?
Galliano himself says to be “totally surprised” by this and that the suspension was taken totally out of proportion. A difficult task for Dior lies ahead of what to do with it, just a week before the A/W 2011 RTW fashion show.. Must the show go on or be forgotten in history? One must not forget even the biggest fish in the pond can be small one day.
