Cynthia Cheng Mintz

BREAKING NEWS: Galliano’s namesake show on Sunday has been CANCELLED!!

John Galliano (left, arriving at the Cinema Against AIDS 2005 event at the Cannes Film Festival of that year), now known to be the Mel Gibson/David Hasselhoff/Charlie Sheen of the fashion industry for his videotaped anti-semetic rants has been officially fired from Dior.  He was previously suspended.  The Dior show, scheduled for this Friday, will go on without him.  Currently, there is no word as to what is happening with his own line.  The show is tentatively still on schedule at Paris Fashion Week, which begins today.  No replacement has yet been named. 

It’s unlikely that the Galliano Issue will end quickly.  According to a Tweet by the Wall Street Journal’s style editor, Christina Binkley, this case will likely “require a process” by the French government – in other words, it will be investigated in detail.  As to whether this incident will have any effect on the Dior line in general also remains to be seen.  So far, there have been few media reports of people boycotting the line or even the Fall/Winter 2011 season. 

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