PARIS – French fashion house Christian Dior says it is firing
famed designer John Galliano after an online video showed him
praising Adolf Hitler.
Christian Dior said Tuesday Galliano has been immediately laid
off, just days after he was suspended as its creative director
pending an investigation into an alleged anti-Semitic incident in a
Paris cafe last week.
A video posted online Monday showed Galliano, in a different
incident, drunkenly telling a cafe patron "I love Hitler."
The house said in a statement: "Today, because of the
particularly odious nature of the behavior and words of John
Galliano in a video made public this Monday, the Christian Dior
house has decided to lay him off immediately and has begun firing
procedures against him."
Dior had came under pressure after Oscar-winning actress Natalie
Portman, one of the company's spokesmodels, said in a statement she
"will not be associated with Mr. Galliano in any way."
Christian Dior on Friday suspended Galliano pending an
investigation. The house is scheduled to present its fall-winter
2011-2012 ready-to-wear show on Friday as part of Paris fashion
week.
Source: yahoo news
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110301/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_france_galliano)
For those who are into high-end fashion by top labels like LV,
Hermes, Dior, this guy was the chief designer of Dior
