What's Next in John Galliano's Career?

[Squizree]

Oh. Yeah very likely.

 

[thejarc]

Selling Christian Dior? I doubt it. It's Pinault's baby.

Pinault? He's the Gucci-owner, I think you meant Arnault

 

[Squizree]

^ Yes yes, whoever lol

 

[Heroin_Chic]

Galliano without Galliano!?!

Won`t work. The brand will go down as it happend to Helmut Lang without Helmut and Jil Sander without Jil.

Sad

 

[iluvjeisa]

so now you're diminishing what he said as mere creative temperament? that had nothing to do with his work or his creativity. certainly had his work been the subject,you would have had a point in that but he was at a cafe basically telling patrons they were beneath him because of their ethnicity. there's nothing else there. you can rationalise it all you must but it is what is.

i'm flabbergasted,really. are we that blinded by our love of fashion that we would just condone this type of behaviour? it makes me a little ill that this is the kind of attitude i'm witnessing....that because he's an artist,it makes it okay. that's basically what i'm seeing here. and again,anybody else outside this bubble we call fashion did this we would not be so tolerant. we can persecute copy cats(rightly),we can persecute shady conglomerates but we'll let galliano slide merely because he said something while under the influence. that's an excuse.

Well, yes, I think this is mostly artistic temperament. I think he felt an overpowering need to say what must not be said. Not because he believed it but because he wanted to shock people. Besides, I think he made it quite clear, even in his drunkenness, that it was the ugliness that he found offensive, not the ethnicity. And he did not say that the other patrons were beneath him....do you have any idea how he feels about himself?

You feel a little sick because people want to allow others to make amends and start afresh? You seriously think that people should be shut out completely because they make a sorry spectacle of themselves when they have substance abuse problems?

 

[Bonbonenata]

I think people overreact. It's too much. Galliano isn't Hitler!! He deserves second chance.

 

[tigerrouge]

You seriously think that people should be shut out completely because they make a sorry spectacle of themselves when they have substance abuse problems?

Indeed, I wasn't impressed with his actions and I don't believe the ability to design clothes gives anyone a free pass to act badly, but if the offence is recognised and the person is punished, there must also be a chance for rehabilitation. I certainly condemn the incident, but I see no point in condemning him thereafter if he receives appropriate punishment - and treatment - and can be helped to get back into a better and more productive place in his life.

 

[Salvatore]

Waouh.
I just saw this news. I am really shocked and gasped out loud ... really !
Did not see that one coming ?

 

[dennab216]

I didn't either. He is already down why keep kicking him in the face?

Hopefully he'll come back stronger than ever, without Dior and may be able to give us back some of his old fashion magic. I don't think during those last years Dior and Galliano made a good mix (even if last HC show was def not one of his "worst" - and his worst is still the best of some )

 

[MsCrow]

I am so disgusted by this news. I don't see the point of taking the brand from the designer and find it particularly crass they chose to do so before the 12 May trial. What is LVMH's motivations for this? The brand was never particularly profitable and went on because it was John's purest expression of creativity, without him there it's pointless and will die a death anyway. As for whether people will still wear his creations after this furore, well, I'm typing this wearing a loved F/W 06 coat. It looks and feels just the same regardless of what has been said. Does that make those who wear his clothes Nazi sympathisers? Hardly.

 

[angel222]

I believe there are legal things going behind the scenes between LVMH and Galliano that we are not privy to. I think if John stays at his label and a new Dior replacement is hired there will always be comparisons between the designs of the new designer and what John would do for his brand. That I believe is one of the major reasons why they want him gone, the constant reminder of the past and obvious comparisons would hinder the new designer's ability to create their own look for Dior.

 

[Scott]

and you guys may in fact be right that there are other components happening within that we don't know about. they indeed could have had it in for him even before all this came to fore and they just seized this opportunity. but you know,i'd lying if i said i was going to cry buckets of tears. like mutterlein said it hasn't that relevant for a while now unlike some of the situations such as helmut lang and jil sander.

and like i said,rhetoric or not,it's been said and it's out there and he has to face that. it just makes me feel a little disturbed that these things are still so prevalent in our society like it's the 1940's. the first thing anybody ever turns to when making some ridiculous rant are minorities. and i don't abide nor do i tolerate that. i come from a place where certain derogatory and disparaging words are often spouted to describe certain groups and then when i see somebody who's supposed to be educated and worldly say such things,it makes me sick.

 

[Not Plain Jane]

It seems like the company should close the JG brand down. Morph it into something else. If they are so appalled by what he represents, extrapilated from what he said that fateful evening in front of that cafe, then why sell clothing under his name?

Artists other than JG have said & done horrid things and have been forgiven, re-accepted by their profession or in their circles, to varying degrees. Look at Mel Gibson, for e.g. Last I checked, he is still making films.

 

[ultramarine]

Are they? You couldn't get it more wrong if you tried.

I actually i am the opinion think he was an amazing designer and some of his collections were unforgettable, i do think that regardless of whatever he said, his place is history of fashion as someone with incredibly talent is assured.
But like any other artist it's almost impossible to keep the quality of your work at the highest level forever and his quality has been steadily declining for a couple of years. Only someone totally blinded by fandom cannot not see it.And his own brand in the last years was simply hideous.

Plus it's absolutely irrelevant if he is or not a racist, I have no idea and frankly no interest to know if this rant was a "true sign of his innermost feelings" or not, the fact remain that what he said was racist and extremely serious and has to be deal with in that level. Why he thought it was an acceptable thing to say it's up to him to analyze, none of us know enough of the man to reach a conclusion.

Im sorry Les Sucettes, but you need to get your act together:

First you claim that the other member is wrong and then you agree?

Im extremely confused

I am no Galliano fan, and even I do agree that his collections lately have been bland, but neither you and I have an ALL-ACCESS pass on the Dior HQ to see what the hell is going on in there (and they're in lockdown about such matters).

His talent is unquestionable. He is one of the most gifted designers on fashion history and its a fact. (Though at the end he seems to have lost it like Halston).

Now what baffles me is your comment on how his label is chavtastic ... I dont see it .. at all. If I had to compare it to another label. Its reminds me of Benetton.


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[angel222]

I just think John should take over Karl Lagerfeld's position at Chanel when the latter retires hopefully soon. His last label design had that Chanel elegance that everyone could see and was mostly practical looking clothes; it's all good.

 

[CrisGalaxy]

^
John at another giant like Chanel...? eeek
thats never gonna happen

 

[mikeijames]

^
John at another giant like Chanel...? eeek
thats never gonna happen

seconded. galliano might go to a smaller house in time, not a larger one.

 

[Deleted member 7575]

Well, yes, I think this is mostly artistic temperament. I think he felt an overpowering need to say what must not be said. Not because he believed it but because he wanted to shock people. Besides, I think he made it quite clear, even in his drunkenness, that it was the ugliness that he found offensive, not the ethnicity. And he did not say that the other patrons were beneath him....do you have any idea how he feels about himself?

You feel a little sick because people want to allow others to make amends and start afresh? You seriously think that people should be shut out completely because they make a sorry spectacle of themselves when they have substance abuse problems?

I agree that it was his "artistic temperament" (and an alcohol problem) that led to his behavior. However, he is still responsible for what he said and he can only suffer the consequences. Is it unfortunate? Of course. Is it fair? That's subjective but I would understand if someone didn't think so. But the reality is that a man who can't control his tongue in public or hold his liquor has no business heading an international luxury brand. Does he deserve a second chance? Sure, but Dior also deserves to fire him.

But to be honest, he may not have been ousted from Dior or Galliano so quickly if he were still in fact a relevant designer that actually made a real contribution to fashion and pushed it forward. Maybe then people would have at least tried to understand him the way you seem to. Galliano was well past his prime and his collections in the past several seasons were more embarrassing than they were entertaining...exciting, desirable, chic? Those adjectives I'm afraid haven't been appropriate to describe Galliano's work in years. Racial slurs or not, he should have been let go. That he had to go like this is a lesson to be learned by all. And it's all a real shame.

 

[Hemmy]

woow way to ruin someone's career


this is too much and i hate that Christian Dior SA is acting like the messiah, to me it seems obvious that they are firing him for other reasons and just took event to make it seem like they don't support racism, blah blah blah.
business is business and i really think Christian Dior SA did this whole thing because John got drunk and said what he did.

They just ruined his career.
and to be honest if i see someone wearing John Galliano or Dior, I'm not going to think
"racist"
and who ever does, I'm sorry, but that's called prejudice.
it's like everytime i see someone drinking fanta i think of the nazis or see a Mel movie i think of racism.
i don't really think john has this set of attitudes, beliefs and practices towards Jews. he was drunk and under lots of pressure.
and drunk people make mistakes, i know i have. he deserves a punishment, but not this.

 

[lebigt]

seconded. galliano might go to a smaller house in time, not a larger one.

Well, there's now an opening at GFerre...