Sunday, March 6, 2011

John Galliano's last collection for Christian Dior, Fall 2011 Collection-Galliano's Fall from Grace

The word is that before the march of the models began, Dior CEO Sidney Toledano appeared onstage to make a lengthy speech in French about the values that Christian Dior—both the man and the business he founded—has represented for more than six decades. Toledano referred to the recent egregious flouting of these values without once mentioning Galliano by name, but went on to assert that they would continue to be upheld by "the heart of the House of Dior, which beats unseen... made up of its teams and studios, of its seamstresses and craftsmen."