Show goes on without Galliano
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March 5, 2011, Saturday
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CELEBRITIES stayed away and designer John Galliano was nowhere to be seen yesterday as Christian Dior displayed its fall-winter 2011-12 ready-to-wear show at Paris Fashion Week.
Dior CEO Sidney Toledano made a statement on the catwalk before the show lamenting the "deeply painful" situation at the famed French fashion house in the wake of an uproar over Galliano's alleged anti-Semitism.
Galliano was sacked on Tuesday after a video of him saying "I love Hitler" went viral. Some media reports say he's in rehab in Arizona, although Dior officials have declined to comment on his whereabouts. Yesterday's collection was designed under his supervision.
Toledano read a statement from the catwalk before the show began, saying it was "deeply painful to see the Dior name associated with the disgraceful statements attributed to its designer."
He then tried to turn attention away from the scandal and toward Dior's artisans. "The heart of the Dior house is its 'little hands.' What you are going to see now is the result of their immense work," he said.
The icy blue set, under a tent in the gardens of the Rodin Museum, was decorated to look like the ballroom of a chic Hausmannian apartment in Paris. The collection had a 1970s-influenced theme, with wide-brimmed hats and fur accented outerwear in rich jewel tones.
At the show's conclusion, when Galliano usually comes out in an outrageous outfit, around three dozen Dior workers, known as "little hands" in fashion jargon, took to the catwalk in white lab coats.
Celebrities appeared to avoid the show, even though flocks of A-list celebrities generally take up first-row perches.
Dior's list of celebrity attendees had just seven names, mostly little-known French starlets.
Dior CEO Sidney Toledano made a statement on the catwalk before the show lamenting the "deeply painful" situation at the famed French fashion house in the wake of an uproar over Galliano's alleged anti-Semitism.
Galliano was sacked on Tuesday after a video of him saying "I love Hitler" went viral. Some media reports say he's in rehab in Arizona, although Dior officials have declined to comment on his whereabouts. Yesterday's collection was designed under his supervision.
Toledano read a statement from the catwalk before the show began, saying it was "deeply painful to see the Dior name associated with the disgraceful statements attributed to its designer."
He then tried to turn attention away from the scandal and toward Dior's artisans. "The heart of the Dior house is its 'little hands.' What you are going to see now is the result of their immense work," he said.
The icy blue set, under a tent in the gardens of the Rodin Museum, was decorated to look like the ballroom of a chic Hausmannian apartment in Paris. The collection had a 1970s-influenced theme, with wide-brimmed hats and fur accented outerwear in rich jewel tones.
At the show's conclusion, when Galliano usually comes out in an outrageous outfit, around three dozen Dior workers, known as "little hands" in fashion jargon, took to the catwalk in white lab coats.
Celebrities appeared to avoid the show, even though flocks of A-list celebrities generally take up first-row perches.
Dior's list of celebrity attendees had just seven names, mostly little-known French starlets.
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