Exactly.

Yet, Phillip Bloch is, kind of, defending him?

But Phillip Bloch is a nobody. An absolute nobody desperate for some publicity.

Jeanne Beker, Anna Wintour, Andre Leon Talley, Glenda Bailey, they've all disowned them. Just as he should be.

Of course they did. He will be lucky to get a mopping floors job somewhere in Tyne and Wear.

I find it disturbing that in France, someone could be put in JAIL for bigoted statements. Should he have been fired? HELL YES. Should he be a social pariah for the rest of life, ABSOLUTELY. But Jail? That is ridiculous. Now if it was threats, as opposed to just slurs, then that would cross the line.

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I find it disturbing that in France, someone could be put in JAIL for bigoted statements. Should he have been fired? HELL YES. Should he be a social pariah for the rest of life, ABSOLUTELY. But Jail? That is ridiculous. Now if it was threats, as opposed to just slurs, then that would cross the line.

Have you ever heard about l'affaire Dreyfus?

I find it disturbing that in France, someone could be put in JAIL for bigoted statements. Should he have been fired? HELL YES. Should he be a social pariah for the rest of life, ABSOLUTELY. But Jail? That is ridiculous. Now if it was threats, as opposed to just slurs, then that would cross the line.

Well it doesn't actually happen all that aoften, but I think you have to keep in mind what has happened in France to understand the reasoning.

Dior as a brand can recover if it goes a radical new direction with its next designer. But the eponymous "John Galliano" line is kaput.

Right--actually I don't think Dior will be harmed by this whatsoever--and part of that was due to them reacting so very quickly (which cynically could be seen as them smartly distancing their line from him and his statements as soon as was possible).

<span style="font-size:120%;">Now that it is official that John Galliano made antisemitic remarks, is it acceptable to buy Dior clothes and accessories he designed?

Lucinda, by email

Simply, no no no. Simplicity is paramount on this topic because some people – such as Nicole Kidman (who wore a Dior dress to the Oscars) and stylist Patricia Field (who has insisted that Galliano wasn't being antisemitic when he expressed the opinion that all Jews should have been gassed, he was being "theatrical") – find it difficult to understand why they should let a few expressions of love for Hitler get in the way of wearing Galliano's work. I mean, his tailoring is amazing – makes one look so thin and dramatic. Plus, he's always been, you know, so generous. Even some dear fashion-writer colleagues have attempted to conjure up pity for Galliano claiming that he'd always been encouraged to be "controversial" by his bosses and, golly gosh, it's so lonely at the top where all one can do for entertainment is spout hate speech. Bless.

If Field, Kidman and the rest of the fashion corps took their heads out of their butts for a few minutes and read a book, they would doubtless cite what is known as The TS Eliot Defence, which is that Eliot's distasteful...

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Everybody is cracking up. Christophe Decarnin of Balmain has been in a mental hospital since January. And we all know what happened to Isabella Blow and Alexander McQueen.

Too much adulation, coke, money breeds spoiled, corrupted, troubled people, methinks.

And John Galliano is going to have to do SO much more than release a legally-drafted apology saying he is going to rehab.

It's all actually quite tragic...

Meanwhile, Chanel had a 'volcanic show':

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1364257/Chanels-volcanic-crowd-erupting-Paris-Fashion-Week.html

Chanel will always be the "ne plus ultra" of fashion and fashion shows for me. I love all the stuff that went down that runway, too.

And how ironic that Kaiser Karl is probably the most lucid and grounded (mentally) of all the big designers working in haute couture and pret a porter (Alber Elbaz at Lanvin being another).

Givenchy's Riccardo Tisci seems to be the frontrunner to replace Galliano.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/06/john-galliano-antisemitism-marais

Chanel will always be the "ne plus ultra" of fashion and fashion shows for me. I love all the stuff that went down that runway, too.

And how ironic that Kaiser Karl is probably the most lucid and grounded (mentally) of all the big designers working in haute couture and pret a porter (Alber Elbaz at Lanvin being another).

I love Karl, I think he's brilliant.