John Galliano no longer works at… John Galliano. Dior, which owns 91% of Galliano’s eponymous label, fired the designer after his recent anti-Semitic comments went viral on YouTube.
John Galliano, ousted as Dior’s couturier last month amidst mounting evidence of anti-Semitic and racist outbursts, has also been formally sacked from the fashion company that bears his name, WWD has learned. – read more at WWD
Previously: “I condemn most firmly the statements made by John Galliano which are a total contradiction with the essential values that have always been defended by the House of Christian Dior,” Sidney Toledano, Dior’s president and chief executive officer, said in a statement.