Why Galliano imploded: The fashion king is now in rehab fighting his obsession with his own Jewish roots
Flamboyant: Disgraced former Dior creative director John Galliano
The Meadows rehabilitation facility in Arizona is a long way from the frenetic hothouse of Paris Fashion Week — and not just in distance. Located in the desert, 50 miles north-west of Phoenix, the rehab’s residents follow a strict timetable designed to help them conquer their addictions. The worldly concerns of the catwalk shows in the French capital have little place here.
Yet one character does link the two. For in the small hours of Thursday morning, a rather frail-looking, pale-faced figure with a pencil moustache is understood to have checked into The Meadows (previously host to Elton John and Donatella Versace) presumably to receive treatment for his problems. His name is John Galliano, and he left in his wake panic-stricken preparations for yesterday’s Christian Dior womenswear autumn/winter catwalk show. And panic would describe it. For no A-listers turned up to yesterday’s Dior show although American Vogue editor Anna Wintour (with doughter- Bee) and fashion guru Suzy Menkes made it to the front row, while anti-fascist campaigners demonstrated outside following Galliano’s alleged anti-Semitic rant last month.
Had the events of the past two weeks unfolded differently, he would have been rounding off the show with a theatrically costumed solo appearance to the wild applause of his audience. As the House of Dior’s creative director, Galliano’s flamboyant final flourish had become something of a signature.
But no more. For, as we now know, 50-year-old Galliano is no longer employed by the fashion-house, fired this week from his £4 million-a-year post at the label’s creative helm, following those alleged racist outbursts in a Paris bar, La Perle, on three separate occasions. He is accused on one of them of calling an innocent bystander a ‘dirty Jew’, before shouting ‘I love Hitler’ in another.
These were no casual allegations: this week, police confirmed that Galliano would face court proceedings in Paris on at least one claim of making racist insults. If found guilty, he could be sentenced to six months in jail.
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