What's Next in John Galliano's Career?

[angel222]

It seems obvious that there was tension boiling within Dior between John and the management before those unfortunate incidents. It was more telling that the clothes in the final Dior show as haphazard, while his own label was stunning, which implies he applied more creative genius via more time.

I assume that Dior management noticed the difference in quality between the two labels and decided to vindictively deny him of any credit, fealty, tribute and employment.

 

[Scott]

erm....certainly galliano has had his moments but to say he has more talent than 90% is a little over-dramatic...perhaps a little biased. we've been having that same debate since he sent dead rodents down the catwalk how much the quality has declined in turn for shock tactics and gimmicks.

and again,i could care less if he was falling down sloppy drunk....making disparaging remarks about a certain ethnicity not to mention the other thing he said...is reprehensible and unacceptable. for somebody who had fronted two "global" labels that is sold world-wide,don't you think there should be repercussions for that? you don't go into shops expecting sales people to talk that way so why would we allow a fashion designer who proposes goods for us to buy that freedom?

 

[Chris_Couture05]

It seems obvious that there was tension boiling within Dior between John and the management before those unfortunate incidents. It was more telling that the clothes in the final Dior show as haphazard, while his own label was stunning, which implies he applied more creative genius via more time.

I assume that Dior management noticed the difference in quality between the two labels and decided to vindictively deny him of any credit, fealty, tribute and employment.

I could'nt agree more. This whole situation is just dirty. The Dior collections over the past few years have been a bit bland compared to the John Galliano collections. There was clearly a difference of opinion when it came to the type of clothes that Dior should have been producing.

John Galliano sacked from his eponymous label
Things go from bad to worse for John Galliano after he is ousted by the board of his namesake label.

BY Belinda White | 15 April 2011


If John Galliano was thinking things couldn't get any worse this year, he was wrong.

Fresh from a stint at a rehabilitation facility in the USA, following his arrest in Paris over alleged anti-Semitic remarks made during a row outside a bar, WWD have today reported that the designer has now been ousted from his eponymous label.

The John Galliano label, founded in 1993, is 91% owned by Christian Dior SA - the label from which Galliano was fired in early March. According to reports, the company's board recently met and decided that the British designer was surplus to requirements.

It is believed that the in-house design team at John Galliano, who are currently working on a pre-spring collection, will assume responsibility for designing future collections.

Meanwhile Christian Dior SA is weighing up the long-term future of the label. It is understood they have received unsolicited third-party interest in the business, although state that the sale of the company is not a priority.

Galliano, 50, was sacked as Creative Director of Christian Dior on March 1 following anti-Semitic allegations made against him.


On February 24, Galliano was accused of hurling racist and anti-Semitic abuse at Géraldine Bloch, 35, and her companion Philippe Virgiti, 41, during an altercation outside Paris café La Perle, for which he is due to stand trial on a charge of public insult at the Paris High Court. If found guilty, Galliano could face months in prison and a fine of 22,500 euros (around £20,000), although he has vehemently denied all the charges brought against him.

Subsequently, a video clip surfaced showing him making anti-Semitic remarks to a group of girls outside the same Paris café.

Galliano fled Paris in early March to attend rehab, reportedly checking-in to The Meadows facility in Arizona, which has treated celebrities such as Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, Elle Macpherson and Ronnie Wood.


Reporters in Los Angeles heckled Galliano at the weekend in what was his first public sighting since leaving rehab. One paparazzi shouted "Racist", and another asked him if he "would do anything differently" as he walked through LAX airport.

Source : telegraph.co.uk

In reference to the bold section. WTF!?!?!?!?!?! How can the designer of the brand be considered surplus?!?!?!? If this is true which Im sure it is, it just goes to show that there was tenison between John and the big wigs at Dior. They clearly to the first chance they got to get their hands completly on that brand.

Let me be clear, in no way am I defending what he said because what he said was disgusting. I dont care if he was drunk or not. Those kind of remarks dont just manifest themselves out of nowhere. He should have to take responsibility for what he said but this whole firing him from his own label b.s just seems a little too opportunistic.

 

[Master Wood]

Do we think he will even stay in Paris? I would have thought being of British origin there is a good chance they might try and kick him out of the country.

 

[Les_Sucettes]

Chavy? Could you give some examples of such from his work? Yes, he's not subtle but I'd think he'd be one of the last to be labeled thus, when houses like Balmain reign supreme with clothes that could also be called nasty, tacky, and super chavy.

I think it would be easier to give examples of his work that it's not chavy. His all input in the last years in his own label has been hideous.

I never said he was the only tacky label out there, Balmain totally caters the taste of a particular type of client and that makes it a successful business, I never heard it called refined. JG label is simply and totally out of touch, to be worn by people that think they are still partying in Ibiza the 1990's.

 

[smartarse]

.... but i dont know how the french law works ,i personally don't think Galliano deserves any jail time for this.

 

[Squizree]

erm....certainly galliano has had his moments but to say he has more talent than 90% is a little over-dramatic...perhaps a little biased. we've been having that same debate since he sent dead rodents down the catwalk how much the quality has declined in turn for shock tactics and gimmicks.

and again,i could care less if he was falling down sloppy drunk....making disparaging remarks about a certain ethnicity not to mention the other thing he said...is reprehensible and unacceptable. for somebody who had fronted two "global" labels that is sold world-wide,don't you think there should be repercussions for that? you don't go into shops expecting sales people to talk that way so why would we allow a fashion designer who proposes goods for us to buy that freedom?

Oh it hardly needs to be said that Galliano's "golden years" pretty much relied on spectacle more than anything else. But he did it to such an extreme extent that it actually fooled people into thinking he was more talented than he is. I also think a huge lump of his collections WERE tacky and sometimes almost gaudy. But it became a necessary element of the Christian Dior brand. A lot of his stuff was tacky, but it never felt contrived or wannabe. Galliano's collections spoke on behalf of his personality.

 

[angel222]

^ Let's not forget the couture and off the rack clothes are only a small to lower mid portion of the profits, everything else comes down to accessories, jewels, perfumes and the like. He gave Dior a lot of publicity because of the outlandish nature of the designs only Saudi princesses could imagine to afford.

 

[zhaopian]

it must be very tough right now for Galliano. and I don't know if it is fair or not that they remove him from the Galliano label, but what kind of person agrees to start a label/ company bearing his name where they own less than 51%?

And in this case, where he owns less than 91%, of course, he has no say about the future of the JG label. this is a major mistake of his own. had he chosen smaller company size and larger share, this would not have happened.

it seems that he had forgotten that in business the glitzy swimming pool is actually full of sharks, and it is a little sad that there was nobody on his side giving him solid and sane business advice.

 

[Squizree]

^ Let's not forget the couture and off the rack clothes are only a small to lower mid portion of the profits, everything else comes down to accessories, jewels, perfumes and the like. He gave Dior a lot of publicity because of the outlandish nature of the designs only Saudi princesses could imagine to afford.

True. But that could be said for most of other luxury labels, especially Yves Saint Laurent, Prada, Gucci and Balenciaga. Accessories and fragrances are always bring the most revenue. Very few brands depend more on their actual clothes.

 

[mikeijames]

well, i guess john galliano is free to design elsewhere....at balmain, perhaps.

 

[angel222]

^ The sad part to is to lose your identity he can still work but it's like what happened to Halston whose brand was bought, and it turned tacky ending in JC Penney.

 

[iluvjeisa]

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.

It's a matter of taste. I don't like his work for Dior 1998-2003. I only like his work for Dior 2004-2006 and then I like his Galliano line, all of it, and in particular the last three years. It has been mad and inspired, just as I like art. Do you somehow think art is objective? The bolded statment would indicate that you do.

 

[iluvjeisa]

erm....certainly galliano has had his moments but to say he has more talent than 90% is a little over-dramatic...perhaps a little biased. we've been having that same debate since he sent dead rodents down the catwalk how much the quality has declined in turn for shock tactics and gimmicks.

and again,i could care less if he was falling down sloppy drunk....making disparaging remarks about a certain ethnicity not to mention the other thing he said...is reprehensible and unacceptable. for somebody who had fronted two "global" labels that is sold world-wide,don't you think there should be repercussions for that? you don't go into shops expecting sales people to talk that way so why would we allow a fashion designer who proposes goods for us to buy that freedom?

Oh, is there someone out there whose taste is not biased? That would be news to me.

No. I don't think there should be repercussions on this level. I think he should be put in rehab for one to three months and then come back to continue his work. People forget. It would be easy. Some tearfilled interviews about the dangers of alcohol a couple of appearances with Natalie Portman at selected charity events and voila, only 10% would even remember this incident.

But for some reason they don't do that. Perhaps because they think they've milked him dry or because he has done something truly unforgivable. Something much worse than some drunken slurs - probably has to do with economy - maybe he was going somewhere else....

People should not be condemned this easily for what they say. Why? Because it is the people with feelings right underneath the surface, people with temperament, who are likely to say them. Masses of people will feel the same thing and not say it because of their personality traits.

If you have a society where cameras are everywhere and people are pressured and then condemned for what they say it is those who are temperamental who will disappear from public view. And yet those are the only people who can truly inspire. So we will be left with sociopathic hyenas and painfully boring people as artists. One or two is ok, but who wants them all to be like that?

 

[Scott]

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.

 

[smartarse]

^ i concur...
If he had done it once and under the influence , it's excusable...
but more than a few times and with his status.... c'mon.

 

[Deleted member 7575]

Who even buys the clothes? Is the company even profitable? The brand was irrelevant with Galliano and it will be irrelevant without him. I imagine they'd just close the house down, but I suppose SOMEONE will buy it and try to do SOMETHING with it.

And I do not believe for one minute that this all happening solely because of what Galliano did.

 

[angel222]

^ Could be in the end it's about money so maybe it'll be sold to the Italians, Americans or Asians.

 

[Squizree]

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

 

[angel222]

^ no the galliano label