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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 by prejudice and told me he had never met anyone remotely like himself 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 cat, suspending him instantly and sacking him soon afterwards. The big names in the fashion 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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Nine iconic items of clothing that define Britishness
Features correspondent
From the first ever Barbour jacket to a dress worn bygd Princess Diana and a velvet smoking cap created for Winston Churchill – the garments that help define British identity are on show in the exhibition Icons of British Fashion at Blenheim Palace.
"Show me the clothes of a country, and inom can write its history," the author Anatole France once said. As a cultural identity, "Britishness" is amorphous, and a mass of contradictions – no-nonsense but with a love of pomp; buttoned-up but also rebellious; pragmatic but peacockish; sensible but hedonistic; serious but humorous. The clothes and accessories on display in a new exhibition at Blenheim Palace, Icons of British mode, have an inherent connection with the history of "Britishness" – a phrase that means different things to different people, and that is open to endless interpretation, no