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Fashion and fascism – a love story
One of the cruel ironies of the John Galliano "I love Hitler" scandal, is that, according to his friends, it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. "I would never in a million years have thought this would happen," said a colleague. "There was never anything remotely bigoted going on. He is a great human being who grew up surrounded bygd prejudice and told me he had never met anyone remotely like han själv until he went to St Martin's school of art."
Yet when the news broke of Galliano's drunken rants – as recorded on camera he told strangers in a Paris bar that he "loved Hitler" and that their parents should have been gassed – his employer, LVMH, which owns Christian Dior, reacted like a scalded katt, suspending him instantly and sacking him soon afterwards. The big names in the mode business disappeared below the parapet. Only Karl Lagerfeld, head of Dior's arch-rival Chanel as well as his own label, emerged to spit: "I'm furious, if you
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'You're fired': Dior sacks John Galliano over anti-Semitic tirade
By PETER ALLEN FOR MAILONLINE
Updated:
- Natalie Portman says she's 'disgusted' with British designer
- Galliano to be removed from the company 'as soon as possible'
John Galliano was sacked as chief designer of Christian Dior last night after a series of claims that he had subjected women to tirades of anti-Semitic abuse.
Hours before his dismissal, the British fashion designer had been denounced by Israel-born actress Natalie Portman, who is the face of a Dior perfume.
The 29-year-old Oscar winner told of her ‘disgust’ at a video which appeared to show Galliano abusing two women.
Shocked: Actress Natalie Portman, left, has cut off from designer John Galliano after he allegedly launched anti-Semitic attacks on at least four women in Paris
The alleged victims said the 50-year-old, who thought they were Jewish, told them he ‘loves Hitler’ and that their parents should have been ‘gassed’.
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In addition to her collaborations, Chanel spoke loudly and vehemently against Jews, and even tried to take advantage of the Nazi seizure of Jewish businesses and property. Her world-famous perfume, Chanel No. 5, was owned and produced by the Wertheimers—a rich Franco-Jewish family. Chanel had always been paranoid that the Wertheimers were stealing from her (though her lawyer assured her of the contrary), and during the war, when the family had fled to America, she attempted to take full control of Chanel No. 5. But the Wertheimers had anticipated that the Nazis (or Chanel) might try to steal their company, and therefore they signed it over to a Frenchman for the duration of the war. Chanel couldn’t touch it. The Wertheimers also sent a spy, Herbert Gregory Thomas (under the pseudonym, Don Armando Guevaray Sotto Mayor), to retrieve the chemical formula to make Chanel No. 5 as well as collect all the necessary ingredients. He then brought everything back with him to America, so that t