When you write something about fashion, many people usually think it is all trash. This is also true when you write something about a person belonging to this world. But, it happens that the fashion world can give us an opportunity to discuss an important topic, other than how much cellulite Gisele Bundchen gained this summer.
The fashion designer John Galliano, who is no longer the head of fashion house Dior, has been the protagonist of a series of drunken outbursts in a Paris bar. What’s the big problem? Anti-semitic behavior. But it wasn’t the first time and, in my opinion, it won’t be the last. His behavior has been condemned in public by peers like the Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld and the US actress Natalie Portman . Galliano’s reputation and his role as a leading figure in the world of high fashion has been, I hope, damaged irreversibly.
What is my focus? It might be obvious, but it is necessary. I feel that it’s a duty to condemn openly that offensive and disrespectful way in which this man behaved. The problem is not only that a well-known person, who usually is supposed to be a kind of role model for the people, exhibited such low behavior, but that he consciously insulted the memory of 6 million people and their own families. Whether someone is famous or not, these comments are unacceptable and inexcusable.
A positive lesson that we can learn from this is that this behavior is not tolerated and it usually has negative consequences.
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