This morning UK tabloid The Sun released a disturbing cell phone video which reveals a seemingly drunk John Galliano at a cafe hurling appalling anti-Semitic insults at patrons nearby.
“I love Hitler,” he says. “People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be f**king gassed.”
According to The Sun, the video was taken at La Perle, the same cafe where the designer allegedly attacked Géraldine Bloch and Philippe Virgiti last week which resulted in his arrest and suspension at Dior. According to the Daily Mail Galliano called Bloch an “ugly, disgusting whore” with a “dirty Jew face.” (Galliano subsequently launched a counter-claim of defamation against Bloch and Virgiti).
Today also brings word that a second complaint has been filed against John Galliano for allegedly making anti-Semitic remarks, WWD is reporting. Galliano’s lawyer, Stéphane Zerbib, confirmed to WWD that another complaint was filed Saturday by a woman who claims she was the victim of a verbal attack at the same La Perle cafe a few weeks ago. It is unclear whether the second complaint is in anyway related to the leaked cell phone video.
Watch the video below, but be warned it is highly offensive:
Tags: John Galliano
Designer(s): Christian Dior
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…because Hitler didn’t gas homosexuals, too. What a sad, spiteful man. I hope he fixes whatever it is that’s poisoning his mind.
And there you have it! The proof that a lot of cases don’t ever seem to have. This does not look good for him at all and I can’t say that I feel sorry for him in the slightest.
Having grown up in the south with my family being the only Asians in town and being the target to racism everyday in high school, I am very disappointed at this seemingly intelligent and highly creative man.
Why did he have to be such an asshole?!
Having grown up in the south with my family being the only Asians in town and being the target to racism everyday in high school, I am very disappointed at this seemingly intelligent and highly creative man.
Why did he have to be such an asshole?!
At first I thought this was a dumb allegation but this video is truely shocking. It’s such a shame that people actually think that way. What a waste of a brain and creative talent.
I’m so glad the victim of this earlier attack came forward, and that she had the presence of mind to document it while it was taking place. Notice how quickly Dior executives were able to round up bullshit “witnesses” to give statements to the fashion press about how Galliano never said anything of the kind, would never say anything of the kind. They sure do look silly now.
I think this is a blessing in disguise for Dior, though. Galliano’s work has degenerated into stale camp. They’re not cool, or elegant, or relevant. Now Dior can do what otherwise would have been much trickier: replace him with a new designer who will snap the house out of its downward spiral.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Dior needed a replacement long before this debacle. It is widely known that he hasn’t so much as sewn a button in years…
What a disgrace!!! very disappointed! his true face came out…..doesn’t deserve and fame or glory….Dior is better off without him…
smiles (the truth finally came out)
sara
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I’m so incredibly shocked and sad. It’s so horrific and troubling. Until the video came out, with several versions, it was very easy to have faith in John. It’s so horrible to watch a drunk alone man rave and rant like someone who has come unhinged. I hope he gets help.
From Wikipedia: “For the duration of World War II, Christian Dior dressed the wives of the Nazi officers and French collaborators.” John doesn’t need a psychiatrist; he needs a priest — he’s obvioulsy possessed by the ghost of Christian Dior.
Well, Chanel slept with a nazi officer, so what? I think it’s best to stay on the topic in sensible terms.
What he said is terrible – no excuses but let’s see beyond that – the man seems deeply miserable and he needs help.
Knowing a Nazi in occupied France in WWII is not the same as antisemitism in 2011, -if only- because what Galliano did is illegal in the present day in France. Coco was within the law and did not know all we know about Nazism.
“Within the law”? What law was that? There was Nazi law as well, you know. You mean she didn’t know Nazi killed Jews? Give me a break.
The matter I was trying to convey is not that actually. Wagner was one of the biggest Anti-Semites in the history but his music is still performed and the tickets to his the Ring series still sell out and people do not opt out from hearing the music based on knowing what the composer’s believed in.. It’s like Bobby Fisher’s mom said about her son, who was Anti-Semite even though he was half-Jewish: The bigger the talent the bigger is destruction. Or something like that. I guess what I am trying to convey is in this piece in the New Yorker – http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/03/john-gallianos-words.html
Igor, I said she did not know *all* we know about the Nazi regime, I can’t possibly see how anyone could imagine she might have. The Nazis were good at managing their image, and an SS officer would not have gone blabbing about every evil deed to a girl he was schtupping in an occupied (enemy) country.
I did not at all say she was blameless or completely oblivious. However, the fact is that racial discrimination was not the precise same thing in Coco’s lifetime as it is today. A child raised 100 years ago did not have the benefit of being taught the extreme evil of discrimination, and the class system of that time reinforced racial superiority far more than it does today. I do not mean to defend racist ideals held by anyone in history, and certainly not anyone who was complicit with the Nazi regime, but holding a figure of the past up to modern standards of morality is anachronistic and ultimately impossible. This, more or less, is why we have no choice but to judge her art (and that of the others you mentioned) by its’ merit and not by its politics.
I thought the first story was a beat up but this shows a pattern of behaviour – in both incidents seriously inebriated and drinking by himself (I suppose with his bodyguard nearby), throwing vitriol at random strangers and a penchant for vile racist abuse in the same league as Julian Streicher. No wonder Dior suspended him so quickly. Maybe Galliano’s “bodyguard’s”role is not to protect him but to protect others. And I wouldn’t want to be his defence lawyer.
Streicher had a field of grass cleared by Jews, using their teeth. Galliano’s behaviour should be fully condemned, but let’s not get carried away with statements like that. It only cheapens the unfathomable level of viciousness present in a man like Julius Streicher.
That may be, but Streicher’s main role was as a propagandist. His characterisations of Jews became so ugly, crude and pornographic that even Goebbels flinched. True, a drunken designer who rants about “the Jews” when he is drunk is not a war criminal, but the crudeness and callousness is similar. Rather than using inebriation as a defence, I say in vino veritas.
Anybody else seen Franca Sozzani’s defense of Galliano on the Vogue Italia website? She claims it’s suspect because the camera take such clear videos, etc. Ah, obviously, who woulda thunk it: a camera that takes decent videos not owned by Tyler Shields!
And also, Armani feels really bad for him, etc. Jesus.
That’s just sad and pathetic. Galliano’s work for Dior used to be the epitome of creative high fashion. It’s hard to think of that kind of mind holding these terrible thoughts. I’m glad he’s getting let go. Dior could use a fresh talent, one that isn’t so caustic.
Am I the only one who’s sad that he was fired? I am incredibly disappointed in this ordeal…what he said was obviously wrong and I am totally against racism. But for one thing, he was drunk and people will say anything when they’re drunk. I understand how keeping him will hurt the label’s reputation, but I also think it will hurt their designs as well. Every collection of his mesmerizes me and brings me to an incredible other world that no one else can. So I really am torn here. What he did was absolutely unacceptable, but I hate to see the label loose his creative intuition.
I’m also sad that he was fired and I believe that Dior will not survive a lost of a great designer like Galliano.
And about what Galliano said, I totally agree with Jenny, people say a lot of things when they are drunk, especially if provoked and as you can see in the video they wore provoking him (of course the video is shown just from the point where he said that he loves Hitler, not what happened before…but also in the video you can see that they are enjoying provocating him).
btw…Hugo Boss designed for Hitler and SS, but nobody condemns him.