Jezebel: Dior

The Dior Show Closed With Karlie Kloss's Naked Ass

Jenna Sauers — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:20:00 EDT

The spring Christian Dior collection walked in Paris earlier today. Dior still has not replaced fired creative director John Galliano, who lost his job after being arrested for hurling racial abuse at a couple in a Paris café six months ago, so studio head Bill Gaytten took the bow at the show's conclusion. Karolina Kurkova opened, wearing a houndstooth '50s-style blazer and a cream organza skirt. Karlie Kloss, wearing a black lace dress with a sheer pink skirt, closed — meaning the last thing the fashion press saw was her nearly-naked butt sashaying back down the runway. (And a million bad bloggers hit publish on totes original "cheeky" puns...) The collection was restrained (contrary to the insanely haphazard couture show Gaytten oversaw): neat, even prim, clothes that owe a big debt to vintage styles and the house's own archives. Kimono sleeves, full skirts, boat necks. A sort of Dior greatest-hits album — with all the nostalgia, familiarity, and the cashing-in that term implies. It was, dare we say it, a tad boring. Orlando Bloom and Leighton Meester are among the celebrities who showed. When asked about Galliano's replacement, C.E.O. Sidney Toledano reportedly told the press, "Show some patience!" [AP] More »

Six Months After Galliano's Meltdown, Dior Still Hasn't Replaced Him

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:05:00 EDT

Six months after John Galliano was fired for making racist remarks to a couple of strangers in a bar, Christian Dior still doesn't have a creative director. Galliano's halfway to having his reputation restored — he made Kate Moss's wedding dress, and the editor of Vogue Italia is now telling the press to get some perspective because "he didn't kill anyone!" — and Dior still doesn't have anyone steering the ship. After a dog's breakfast of a couture collection this summer, it will be interesting to see what turns up on the runway this week in Paris. Women's Wear Daily published one hint from the atelier this morning: a '50s-style houndtooth blazer and a black skirt, shown here on the right. Groundbreaking. For purposes of comparison, in the center is something Galliano designed. [WWD] More »

Marc Jacobs Not Opposed To Designing For Dior, Oh No

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:20:00 EDT

Marc Jacobs told a reporter "it would be an honor" to design for Dior. "There's no question that the two great couture houses in Paris are Chanel and Dior…. I think it would be a very hard thing to turn down." This is the first time that the designer has directly addressed the rumor that he is in talks to succeed the fired John Galliano at Christian Dior. The latest rumor is that Dior parent company Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy is balking at Jacobs' and business partner Robert Duffy's demand of $10+ million-dollar salaries apiece. [CNN] More »

10 Things You May Have Missed On TV This Week

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:40:00 EDT

In this week's compilation of pop culture crap, Sharon Stone advises Aubrey Plaza on how not to look like a lesbian, Sherri Shepherd went panty-less at her wedding, and the Toddlers & Tiaras mom who dressed her kid up like a prostitute inadequately defends her decision to Joy Behar. More »

John Galliano Found Guilty Of Hate Speech, Fined

Jenna Sauers — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:35:00 EDT

A Paris court has found former Christian Dior designer John Galliano guilty of making racist and anti-Semitic comments at a bar; publicly insulting someone on the basis of their religion, race, or ethnicity in France is legally actionable hate speech. Galliano was fined €17,500, or around $24,589 at current exchange. More »

Marc Jacobs Said To Be Replacing John Galliano At Dior

Jenna Sauers — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:10:00 EDT

Women's Wear Daily is reporting that Bernard Arnault has at last found a replacement for John Galliano at Christian Dior, the €21 billion luxury brand that is one of the biggest and sparkliest jewels in LVMH's crown. According to "sources," Marc Jacobs is in "talks" to leave Louis Vuitton to take over Dior. Phoebe Philo, who currently designs for Céline, might replace Jacobs at Vuitton in addition to her current work. Galliano was fired this spring after making a series of drunken, racist rants to strangers in a Paris bistro; one of the outbursts was caught on camera, and the disgraced designer faced charges under France's strict hate speech laws. LVMH, Dior's parent company, has taken its time in replacing him — it even let a couture season occur while the house was rudderless. If he were appointed, Marc Jacobs would be the first American (and in fact the first non-European of any nationality) to design for Dior. The Dior job search has been the subject of intense speculation; earlier this year, Fashionista wrote that Givenchy creative director Riccardo Tisci was all but set to take the job. [WWD] More »

Dior C.E.O. Likens Designer Search To Husband-Hunting

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:50:00 EDT

Dior insists that studio head Bill Gaytten, who oversaw that dog's breakfast of a fall couture collection, is just a place-holder designer. The brand will "take all its time" to replace John Galliano, the longtime creative director it fired in March for habitual drunkenness/being an embarrassing racist. "You know when you ask young girls all the time when they are going to get married, they reply: When I find the right man," said C.E.O. Sidney Toledano. [AFP] More »

Dior's First Couture Show Without John Galliano Was A Total Mess

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:40:00 EDT

After fifteen years at Christian Dior, John Galliano was fired for inveterate alcoholism and being rather racist this spring. While Galliano fights a court case, Dior has dragged its feet in replacing him. So the brand went ahead with a couture show in Paris yesterday without a new designer. The pieces in the collection ranged from brightly colored to very sparkly to extremely ruffled, with no apparent theme. Something about "roses" was mentioned. (Galliano did a rather spectacular couture collection based on flowers one year ago.) And something about "modern architecture." (I really can see the influence of Saarinen in that twirly-candystripe skirt...not.) It was, in short, a mess. And the critics hated it. More »

Mooninite Couture

Erin Gloria Ryan — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:45:00 EDT

Paris, July 4: A model wears a creation by Christian Dior for the Fall-Winter 2011-2012 Haute Couture fashion collection. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon) More »

John Galliano Is Even Worse Than We Thought

Jenna Sauers — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:00:00 EDT

Several new details of the incident that cost designer John Galliano his job at Christian Dior — and that has led to him facing criminal charges at a trial set to take place in Paris this Wednesday — have emerged, and goodness, they are interesting. Read on for chair-throwing, lawyer-calling, and handbag-related insults. Oh! And lots of (alleged) anti-Semitism and racism. More »

John Galliano Fired From His Own Label

Jenna Sauers — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:45:00 EDT

John "I love Hitler" Galliano was swiftly fired from Christian Dior after he was arrested for allegedly harassing a couple with a racist tirade in a Paris bar — and after rather damning video footage of Galliano engaging in a similar rant emerged in the tabloids. Dior distanced itself from its longtime creative director almost immediately, but the future of Galliano's namesake label hung in limbo. More »

The Dior Family's Strange Wartime History

Jenna Sauers — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:58:00 EDT

Ten days ago in Paris, just before the most recent Christian Dior fashion show, company C.E.O. Sidney Toledano took the highly unusual step of getting up on the runway to make a speech. The circumstances that led Toledano to take this action were, too, highly abnormal: Dior's creative director of fifteen years, John Galliano, had been arrested days before for allegedly harassing two strangers with an anti-Semitic and racist diatribe. Another, similar, criminal complaint had just been made by an alleged second Galliano victim, and there had also been the release of that now notorious cell phone video of Galliano telling a third group of people, "I love Hitler. People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, you'd all be fucking gassed." Dior suspended Galliano after his arrest, and fired him almost as soon as the video, brokered by a paparazzi agency, hit the Internet. But before the fall Dior collection — the last Galliano work that will sell under the Dior name — Toledano felt the need to explain himself and limit any damage to a brand that realized revenues of over $28 billion last year. Toledano's speech read, in part: More »

Christian Dior's Neo-Nazi Family

Jenna Sauers — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:55:00 EST

There's a bit of charming file footage of Christian Dior's niece Françoise that has been going quietly viral in France. Françoise Dior, you see, is a self-described Nazi. In this 1963 interview for French television, she discusses the importance of defending the Aryan race, the difference between "hating" Jews and merely preferring not to have them around, and why Hitler is her hero. More »

The Complicated Politics Of Wearing Dior

Sadie Stein — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:45:00 EST

When someone wrote into the Guardian's fashion columnist to ask if it was, maybe, you know, sort of okay to buy Dior after, well...you know...the response was swift and unequivocal. More »

Rumor: Kate Middleton Will Marry In McQueen

Jenna Sauers — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:00:00 EST

Alexander McQueen is denying the reports that it has been approached to make Kate Middleton's wedding dress — but if McQueen were the chosen brand, it's unlikely the house would be permitted to confirm it to the press. The Daily Mail writes that Middleton "is thought to have picked the designer after being impressed by a modern silk strapless gown made for the 2005 wedding of Sara Buys to Prince William's step-brother, Tom Parker Bowles." More »

John Galliano's Final Collection For Dior

Jenna Sauers — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:12:00 EST

The Christian Dior show walked in Paris this afternoon under a cloud of controversy. It was just over a week ago that the house's creative director since 1997, and the architect of much of Dior's growth through the boom years of 2000s, was arrested for an anti-Semitic and racist diatribe in a Paris bar. After a video of another incident, in which a drunken Galliano said, "I love Hitler. People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be fucking gassed," came to light, Dior fired him. Dior — a global luxury brand that last year saw revenues of $28 billion, and one of the jewels in parent company Louis Vuitton Moët Hennesy's considerably sparkly crown — is in the delicate position of having to distance itself from Galliano even as it presents his last collection.

Dior Garment Workers Take A Bow On The Catwalk

Jenna Sauers — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:00:00 EST

The Dior show just took place this afternoon in Paris. This season's Dior collection has, as one might expect, been completely overshadowed by the scandal surrounding now ex-Dior creative director John Galliano, who was arrested eight days ago for allegedly hurling a stream of racist and anti-Semitic invective at a couple of strangers in a bar. Following his arrest, Dior suspended Galliano from his job, and after another alleged victim came forward to make a similar police complaint, and especially after the notorious video of a drunken Galliano telling yet more strangers, "I love Hitler...people like you should be gassed" hit the Internet, the brand fired him. But the show must go on — and it did. [Previously, Previously] More »

Who Will Replace Galliano At Dior?

Jenna Sauers — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:00:00 EST

John Galliano may have lawyered up and non-apology-apologized for his infamous "I love Hitler" rant — preserved forever by a cell phone video — but if he thinks he's going to somehow be welcomed back at Dior, he's dreaming. Galliano is a great designer who thinks Nazism is awesome, and no matter what Franca Sozzani says, that is not something anyone's career can survive. So who's going to replace him? Here are the names being mentioned. More »

John Galliano's Fashion Show Is Canceled

Jenna Sauers — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:50:00 EST

Hint is reporting that the show for John Galliano's namesake label, originally scheduled for this Sunday in Paris, is canceled. [@Hintmag] More »

John Galliano: "I Completely Deny The Claims Made Against Me"

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:48:00 EST

The embattled designer — under police investigation for two separate incidents in which he allegedly screamed racist and anti-Semitic abuse at strangers in a bar, and a third, captured on video, in which he drunkenly declared his love for Hitler and spoke of all the people who wouldn't be around today because "your mothers, your forefathers, would all be fucking gassed" — has issued a statement via his London lawyer's office. And he's certainly not going quietly! Galliano denies the allegations categorically, though he does apologize "for allowing myself to be seen to be behaving in the worst possible light" and for "causing any offence." More »

Galliano Heads To Rehab While His Friends Play Dumb

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:55:00 EST

Fashion insiders are expressing their shock at John Galliano's racist behavior. Despite an alleged three recent incidents in which the now ex-Dior designer hurled racist and anti-Semitic abuse at strangers, including one that was memorably filmed, all of which came to light without much digging and within 72 hours of his arrest last Thursday in Paris...you see, nobody knew there was this side to him. "I was so shocked when I heard the news that I didn't actually believe it until I watched that video online. Initially, I couldn't believe it because — and so many fashion people have said this — what he did is so contrary to everything we know about him," says one anonymous London fashion insider. A stylist offers, "I think everyone's known [Galliano's] been crazy forever, but to be honest, he's not the only one in the industry." Says a "veteran fashion writer," "The fashion industry can really create monsters — people live in these bubbles where they are fawned over and celebrated. Nobody ever says no. They get exactly what they want . . . They are completely out of touch with reality because they don't live in reality. I can see how [Galliano] has become this crazy, out-of-touch lunatic." [NYPost] More »

What Will Happen To Dior Now That Galliano Is Gone?

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:23:00 EST

Reactions from the fashion industry to John Galliano's firing by Christian Dior are still rolling in. Which is hardly surprising, considering Galliano's prominence. Galliano oversaw the creative direction of a fashion house — and a global luxury brand — that last year realized revenues of over $28 billion. More »

Dior Fires John Galliano For Racist Rant

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:08:00 EST

John Galliano has been fired by Christian Dior. Company C.E.O. Sidney Toledano, who is of Jewish heritage, called Galliano's behavior "odious" and said in a statement, "I unequivocally condemn the statements made by John Galliano, which are in total contradiction to the longstanding core values of Christian Dior." Notwithstanding its sudden lack of a creative director, Dior intends to go ahead with its fashion show this Friday. [WWD] More »

Watch Dior Designer John Galliano Say "I Love Hitler."

Jenna Sauers — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:30:00 EST

Whatever happened to prompt Dior designer John Galliano's arrest Thursday night in Paris for allegedly launching into a racist, anti-Semitic assault against a couple in a cafe, it appears that it was not Galliano's first such incident. In fact, in a separate outburst at the same cafe, a very drunk Galliano was captured on video clearly telling two women, "I love Hitler. People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be fucking gassed." [Sun] More »

John Galliano Arrested For Alleged Anti-Semitic Attack [Updated]

Jenna Sauers — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:30:00 EST

Longtime Christian Dior creative director John Galliano was arrested in Paris last night, following an altercation with a couple in a café. Witnesses and the French police attest that the designer had been drinking heavily. Dior — which had planned its fall show, a traditional highlight of the fashion season, for March 4 — has announced that it has suspended its head designer, pending the outcome of the police investigation. More »

The Best Of Haute Couture Week

Jenna Sauers — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:30:00 EST

Nilina Mason-Campbell ran around Paris to get a fresh look at couture. Not the runway-shot, brand-manicured take we always get. The street-skulking, exhilarating flash-and-grab honesty of the perennial non-ticket-holder! (It's not our fault we don't know any PRs in Paris.) More »

Baptiste Giabiconi Isn't Sure Why Karl Lagerfeld Loves Him

Jenna Sauers — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:33:27 EST

Dansk magazine's wanton disregard for Baptiste Giabiconi's hotness makes us want to say to the stylist, Hey, whazz wong witz you, man? Meanwhile, it seems Giabiconi occasionally doubts his place in the heart of his Grand Monsieur, Karl Lagerfeld...

Dior Couture, For The 1950s Femme Fatale In You

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:40:00 EST

The models in John Galliano's Christian Dior haute couture collection walked out of a piece of sculpture that looked kind of like a giant mid-century-modern-style lamp, or a hovering spacecraft. They wore dresses in keeping with that theme. More »

The Male Models Of Men's Fashion Week: An Appreciation

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:20:00 EST

Our intrepid photographer, Nilina Mason-Campbell, has been stalking the fashion venues of Paris to bring you an exclusive, behind-the-scenes glimpse of the just-ended men's shows. This way for hunky male models reading, getting made up, drinking and wearing ridiculous outfits! More »

At Golden Globes, Stars Wear Endorsement Deals On Their Sleeves

Jenna Sauers — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:17:00 EST

If there was one thing that stood out on the Golden Globes red carpet — well, one thing besides Helena Bonham Carter's purposefully mismatched shoes — it was the number of actors who selected dresses to fulfill their contractual obligations. More »

Emmanuelle Alt May Be Carine Roitfeld's Successor At French Vogue

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:39:00 EST

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Stylist Emmanuelle Alt, Carine Roitfeld's longtime right-hand-lady, is said to be leading the field of candidates to take over as editor-in-chief, while editor/novelist Virginie Mouzat may still be under consideration. (We previously looked at both candidates in more depth.) [WWD]

Zoolander Sequel Really, Really, Really Happening

Jenna Sauers — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:10:00 EST

Zoolander II news! Owen Wilson says he and Ben Stiller are at work on the the long-awaited sequel, which should be released in 2012. Wilson also says he wants Lady Gaga to make a cameo. [Monsters&Critics]

Zooey Deschanel Sues Steve Madden

Jenna Sauers — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:41:00 EST

Actress/grammatically creative indie songstress Zooey Deschanel is suing footwear knocker-offer/convicted felon Steve Madden for reneging on a $2 million contract. For that sum, Deschanel would have spent 13 days "designing" and promoting a line called "Zooey's Shoes And Accessories." [NYPost]

The Best Of Carine Roitfeld's Reign

Jenna Sauers — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:53:00 EST

In February of 2001, an ex-model, stylist, and fashion writer named Carine Roitfeld released her first issue as editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris. Today, she announced her resignation. In the intervening decade, she made French Vogue a creative powerhouse. [NSFW] More »

Jonathan Adler: "Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels"

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:31:00 EST

Designer (and husband of Barneys creative director/fashion sage Simon Doonan) Jonathan Adler is selling a needlepoint pillow emblazoned with the pro-ana proverb "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels." Which, as Adler should know, is pretty much anorexia's catchphrase. [Racked]

January Jones Goes Nude For Versace

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:56:00 EST

January Jones' reward for holding up the spring Versace show by over an hour is apparently...the brand's spring campaign. Says Donatella Versace, "In January I feel I have found a perfect Versace woman for the 21st century." [WWD]

Gaultier Calls Out Gaga On Her Madonna Routine

Jenna Sauers — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:25:00 EST

Jean-Paul Gaultier, on Lady Gaga: "I think she's talented and very inpolitically incorrect, which I love. But I also think that she read up on Madonna's life and learnt it like the Bible." [Telegraph]

Blake Lively For Chanel?

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:35:00 EST

Blake Lively is rumored to be the face of an upcoming Chanel handbag campaign. [E!]
Having Linda Evangelista in its ads has apparently driven up Talbot's quarterly profits by 17%. [WWD]

Tom Ford Thinks A Lot About Fat Women And Their Rolls Of Fatty Fat

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:39:00 EST

Tom Ford, a man who immobilized his forehead with Botox, thinks people should go naked. Especially, well... "Fat women almost always look better without the constraint and lumpy pinching of clothes, all the straps and elastic squeezing and sucking." [ContactMusic]

Black Friday Promises To Be A Great Day For Staying Home And Reheating Leftovers

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:10:00 EST

Retailers are crossing their fingers that you will buy some shit on Friday. Pretty please? Sam's Club is opening at 5a.m. — with complimentary breakfast. Target and J.C. Penney open at 4 a.m., with the latter offering 300+ "doorbusters." [WWD]