What is startling about this, is that no one seems to have factored in the fact that Mr Galliano was two (or perhaps ten) sheets to the wind on both occasions. Admittedly, racial abuse from a drunken man is not nice. Though really? What do people expect when they go to bars? Everyone to be sober? To be entirely absent of eccentric fashion designers who have had a few too many Grand Marnier's?
Assault is of course another matter, though I'm sure Mr Galliano will have to face the French courts if the allegations are true. On this logic, half of our politicians would have been sacked already. Winston Churchill was usually a bit pickled throughout World War II, reportedly regularly consuming one bottle of Champagne and one bottle of Scotch each day!
What dim folks appear to confuse here is that when under the influence of strong stimulants like alchohol - guess what? People say and do strange things. There is no connection between behaving badly when drunk and character when sober.
If anything, for Dior, the PR disaster is not John Galliano, but the ridiculous, reactionary response by them to this whole sorry affair. Not that I can afford anything designed by them - not even the socks they get made for them in China - though if I could, I think I would give them a wide birth next time I am on South Molton Street.
One voice of reason on this has dared to go against the grain. A lady from Australia no less - where I imagine they are giggling at what pompous fools we've become in Europe nowadays - called Nicole Kidman, who wore one of his dresses to the Oscar's do last night.
No comments:
Post a Comment