One too many?

I would be lying if I was to say that the recent actions of John Galliano had shocked me. We all know that he is very opinionated and hypocritical, if you throw in the fact that he likes a drink, it was always going to happen, granted, maybe not to such an extreme.

Sitting in a cafe in Paris, Dior's front-man, Galliano decided to attack the people on the next table, starting the dispute with: “Your voices are annoying me”. Who does he think he is? Just because he designs for Dior, it doesn’t give him the right to have his nose so far up in the air that he thinks he can control people with no relation to him. Fair enough, in his line of work, he’s probably forever telling people what to do and when to do it, but in a random café in another country, he’s just giving the French another reason to dislike us.

Carrying on the conversation, the designer stooped to an all-time low by stating that he loves Hitler and that Jewish families would be “gassed and fucking dead”. Now we all can get a bit rowdy when we’ve had a drink but did he really think this wouldn’t have the slightest impact on his career? Natalie Portman, a close friend of Galliano, who also works for Dior made a statement just after the video of his rant was leaked, saying: "In light of this video, and as an individual who is proud to be Jewish, I will not be associated with Mr Galliano in any way” and decided to wear a Rodarte dress to the Oscars, instead of the planned Dior gown that Galliano had designed for her.

Having Jewish friends and working for such a well-known company, he was stupid to think that these anti-Semitic comments would go unnoticed. Dior took no time in deciding to let Galliano go. It is a shame that this had to happen at the beginning of the Paris fashion week as his line was about to be revealed, but until the truth of what really happened that night is brought to light, I can completely understand Dior’s decisions and I’m sure a lot of people would have expected nothing less.