tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8401355923091588637.post7392401301799102093..comments2024-03-06T03:19:26.910-05:00Comments on The Emperor's Old Clothes: Galliano: A Sober ViewFluff Chancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17757091504806772512noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8401355923091588637.post-5461296507176557022011-03-14T20:32:24.226-04:002011-03-14T20:32:24.226-04:00Thanks for putting this out there. Really insight...Thanks for putting this out there. Really insightful point of view. I have no words to describe how sad this is.Jane Kilpatrick Schotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13180782161704403156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8401355923091588637.post-85889582530965324882011-03-10T13:25:29.045-05:002011-03-10T13:25:29.045-05:00I'm sorry you felt the need to publish this ap...I'm sorry you felt the need to publish this apologist tripe on your blog. Nothing said here was any more original or enlightening than anyone else who pities poor drunk JG. I always wonder why when a wealthy white person commits some horrible act everyone begins to worry about his mental state. As if there has to be some kind of illness or other temporary shortcoming present to make them behave in such ways. No. As is possible for anyone else to be, JG is a hateful, arrogant human being who could not hide those tendencies any longer. Just a regular man doing nasty things that so many regular men do.<br /><br />Dior did nothing to him that he did not call on them to do. His work, his brilliance as an artist stands, no one can take that away from him. But his legacy is tarnished and good for that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8401355923091588637.post-82156924319025146752011-03-08T15:34:40.945-05:002011-03-08T15:34:40.945-05:00Dear Eric, thank you so very much for sharing it w...Dear Eric, thank you so very much for sharing it with everyone. Your posts on the subject and this article were the only two sources of the balanced nature I have read during the phantasmagoria of loud accusations towards John Galliano. I am not looking forward to hundred more articles big and small on the upcoming trial of John Galliano. I feel so sick! I just hope that Galliano is strong enough to sustain this kind of pressure and reinvent his life. If it would be me in his shoes, I would, probably, follow the foot steps of poor Alexander McQueen.<br />Thank you for being so kind and honest.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16102553594171697015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8401355923091588637.post-50620954387508458922011-03-08T12:40:41.793-05:002011-03-08T12:40:41.793-05:00We need only but remember that this is the same co...We need only but remember that this is the same company, that on the slightest pretext, fired a young Yves Saint Laurent from his job.<br /><br />This was a sober reflection of what happened and indeed, a salutary effort.Wei Nghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07576370932812624912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8401355923091588637.post-2704814829983828612011-03-08T12:16:37.374-05:002011-03-08T12:16:37.374-05:00That NYT Op-Ed was poorly researched (specifically...That NYT Op-Ed was poorly researched (specifically on the matter of the German plans for the French industry....they DID plan to move it) and I thought the author went too far trying to make connection between dictators and designers. LOLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8401355923091588637.post-15368432205825800852011-03-08T07:18:52.184-05:002011-03-08T07:18:52.184-05:00Well said!Well said!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8401355923091588637.post-66310857088037385652011-03-07T12:23:22.992-05:002011-03-07T12:23:22.992-05:00Dear Fluff, the article in the NYT this morning is...Dear Fluff, the article in the NYT this morning is interesting.<br /> "High fascism" by Rhonda Garelick.<br />I know we are all getting quite tired of the story. She has an historical point of view on French Fashion and times though, which is worth reading.spirouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13828625370175105329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8401355923091588637.post-24815743283131220672011-03-06T05:25:02.531-05:002011-03-06T05:25:02.531-05:00I feel so sad for him. In that video he looks so l...I feel so sad for him. In that video he looks so lost and fragile and alone, even while he hurls the hatred. Very sad. And he is so immensely talented. He creates such delight in the world, and is a great artist. We have lost too many of the magic makers of fashion recently, and the world needs them. I really believe more and more than artists like Galliano and McQueen and Lacroix are channeling the divine.Dandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02048326517764291061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8401355923091588637.post-18134961782121134342011-03-06T05:23:59.118-05:002011-03-06T05:23:59.118-05:00I feel so sad for him. In that video he looks so l...I feel so sad for him. In that video he looks so lost and fragile and alone, even while he hurls the hatred. Very sad. And he is so immensely talented. He creates such delight in the world, and is a great artist. We have lost too many of the magic makers of fashion recently, and the world needs them. I really believe more and more than artists like Galliano and McQueen and Lacroix are channeling the divine.Dandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02048326517764291061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8401355923091588637.post-4282852407549766672011-03-05T12:59:30.606-05:002011-03-05T12:59:30.606-05:00While I do appreciate the sentiment of the article...While I do appreciate the sentiment of the article here...and do even think that Mr Galliano was rather goaded into the events that have caused this scandal, I must disagree with one point made regarding Dior's responsibility.<br /><br />As a recovering alcoholic myself, who also happens to be the son of an active alcoholic, I can state emphatically that it is absolutley impossible to protect an alcoholic from himself, or to make him (or her) change their life if they themselves do not want to.<br /><br />That being said, I do hope that Mr Galliano can see where he has ended up at this point, and will take steps to change his life, or as likely, to return to the life (and self) that he may only now be seeing is no longer there.scoff69https://www.blogger.com/profile/14684637946726794667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8401355923091588637.post-58408084917505226942011-03-05T12:38:37.199-05:002011-03-05T12:38:37.199-05:00Fluff I wrote a good response to this and the inte...Fluff I wrote a good response to this and the internetz ate it. Ahh well, methinks this guy means well re: Galliano, but seriously underestimates how the fashion industry seems to work. Even in the best of times, it's CYA and things have gotten super insane in the past 10 years or so. <br /><br />While I'd like to think someone should or could have helped him, I'm not convinced of it given how fashion and fashion people are. They bow to success and run away from anything less than pretty. If it's seems to be working, you don't mess w/ it....until ya have to. That's what the whole Toledano performance/website scrubbing was about....CYA and big $$$$$.<br /><br />Speaking of CYA, I wonder if anymore will emerge about Carine and perhaps the Decarnin connection to it all?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8401355923091588637.post-70558563040232028862011-03-05T11:42:42.205-05:002011-03-05T11:42:42.205-05:00Dear Anya, Pliny was correct; the wine is true to ...Dear Anya, Pliny was correct; the wine is true to itself, the drinker is not.<br />Daviddavidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07296522241037361175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8401355923091588637.post-42437122210736096712011-03-05T11:07:09.531-05:002011-03-05T11:07:09.531-05:00Dear Anya,
Thanks so much for sharing this articl...Dear Anya,<br /> Thanks so much for sharing this article with me and everyone else. It is the first responsible attempt by anyone to explain the forces at play in Galliano's life. I felt compelled to share it as it shines some much needed light on this dark subject. Thanks very much.<br />My best to you,<br />EricFluff Chancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17757091504806772512noreply@blogger.com