What's Next in John Galliano's Career?

[CholoChic]

^I wonder he is going to dress in black, like Moss dressed when she was to Scotland Yard

 

[Boomer]

^ I just hope he doesn't wear some over the top thing- this could be a serious legal situation for him, even disregarding the career damage- he doesn't want to get the court people against him as soon as he shows up....

 

[CholoChic]

Good luck for the man who put Paris and France in so high level with
his precious and crazy collections!

 

[Fatalefashion]

Galliano in black coat, singings .....I go back to

Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack

 

[CholoChic]

I hope he paint his gray chin hair...
or maybe not
It can add drama and sorrow to the trial

 

[Boomer]

^ NO sword and Capt Jack Sparrow boots, though...absolutely not!!

 

[Squizree]

John Galliano took antidepressants 'like candy'

John Galliano, the disgraced British fashion designer, will insist he lost all reason after taking antidepressants "like candy" as he stands trial today for hurling anti-Semitic abuse at customers in a Paris café.

The 50-year-old who was fired as creative director of fashion giant Dior in March insists that a triple addiction to Valium, alcohol and sleeping pills made him "ill".

Paris prosecutors will, by contrast, present Mr Galliano as a chronic bigot whose hate-filled prejudices came to the fore when he was drunk.
Anti-Semitism is a criminal offence in France and the former "enfant terrible" of the fashion world faces a six months jail spell, as well as a £21,000 fine if found guilty of casting "public insults based on the origin, religious affiliation, race or ethnicity" at three people.
Timeline of the John Galliano scandal
Mr Galliano, who once commanded the world's catwalks, can expect a huge media scrum as he walks into the 17th Chamber of the Paris Correctional Court.
In February he is said to have called Geraldine Bloch, a museum curator, a "dirty Jew" and her boyfriend, receptionist Philippe Virgitti, an "Asian bastard" as they sipped cocktails in La Perle, a bar next door to his Paris flat.
An unnamed 47-year-old French woman has also accused him of inflicting a similar verbal tirade in the same bar last October.
All three witnesses are expected to give evidence in person in court.
In pictures: The many faces of John Galliano
Mr Galliano's case has been further hampered by the emergence of a video in which he shouts "I love Hitler" and tells two Italian women that their parents should have been "gassed" in Nazi concentration camps.
Neither of the women has pressed charges.
"One obvious thing is that John Galliano was ill," his lawyer Aurelien Hamelle said yesterday (Tues).
"He had a triple addiction to alcohol, benzodiazepine (Valium) and sleeping pills ... The combined effect of these drugs is a state of complete and utter abandon."
Pressure to perform led him to drink heavily and take Valium pills "like candy" as well as sleeping pills regularly, Miss Hamelle said.
"When he was in that state he had no way of knowing or remembering what he said."
Mr Galliano has apologised repeatedly for the recorded remarks, and entered rehab.
Miss Bloch's lawyer, Yves Beddouk, said his client was only looking for a euro of symbolic damages and the publication of the court decision in the fashion magazines Elle and Vogue and in the French daily Le Figaro.
The court case is expected to last one afternoon, with a verdict due in September.

telegraph

 

[Boomer]

^ I hope he is given a reasonable punishment and allowed to get his life back together, as I would anyone with his problems...I have no idea how he and the Karl Lagerfelds of the world can stand up under that sort of creative and business pressure to produce non-stop; he is but the latest in a long, sad line of creative geniuses who have burned themselves out under the constant demands....We only see the money and the fame- imagine what it is like to wake up every day knowing the expectations to produce over and over again, all in the worst sort of public scrutiny...Get well, John.

 

[mistress_f]

Shallow person that I am, I am wondering what he is going to wear and if he is going to strut up the walkway and strike poses. I hope that he brings it like Naomi did.

Galliano has for his hearing, looking tanned, his hair brown with blonde highlights, wearing a dark blazer and black sarouel pants.

via wwd

 

[CholoChic]

^just as I was imaging!

 

[BonesAndOil]

Is Galliano still designing Kate Moss' wedding dress then?

 

[Boomer]

The latest:

http://www.elleuk.com/news/fashion-news/john-galliano-s-trial-begins-in-paris/(gid)/779413

 

[TREVOFASHIONISTO]

^omg September we might find out?! that's crazy although i'm sure it will be leaked somewhere

 

[Boomer]

John Galliano has arrived in the courtroom at Paris's Palais de Justice, dressed in a black three-piece suit with black brogues and a black-and-white polka-dotted neckerchief. He removed his fedora upon entering the courtroom.

Galliano testifies: 'At the time of the financial crash, I have two children. One was Dior, the other was Galliano. Dior is a big machine and I didn’t want to lose Galliano [the eponymous label]. At this point in order for that house of Galliano to survive, I met many businessmen and signed many licences. So the collections to increase men’s wear, women's, children, shoes boys and girls, perfume projects, jewellery, fine jewellery. Beach wear underwear, boys and girl's clothes. The workload increased very fast.'

Elle.Uk

 

[Boomer]

It sort of looks like the court may be leaning toward giving John a bit of a break....

http://www.elleuk.com/news/fashion-news/the-latest-from-john-galliano-s-trial

 

[angel222]

^

One thing he says is that the combination of Valium, Ambien, and alcohol gave him blackouts in which we wakes up and doesn't even remember what happened. The stress has been ongoing for the last few years in which he relied on prescription drugs and alcohol to numb the tension and stress.

I think he'll come out of this without jail and a small fine but he still has a battle ahead of him with his future work and finances.

 

[TianSoFine]

I hope he gets through this okay and gets a fashion comeback. Jail seems like a pretty big price to pay for making stupid comments.

 

[ALAUU]

^ I agree. Let him pay a fine or something and get back to his life.

 

[Boomer]

^ Some of these very strict laws must go back to the Occupation during World War II, when collaborators were treated very harshly after the Allies liberated Paris...except for Coco Chanel, who lived with a Nazi officer during the war, but that is another very involved story...

 

[Ives927]

I don't understand the severity of this for it to go on trial. Someone explain it to me? I didn't know you could be charged for saying anti-Semitic remarks. His actions were inexcusable, but what happened to free speech?