Video: Christian Dior Show Goes On Without Galliano
The Christian
Dior show went on at Paris Fashion Week without its designer, John Galliano, who was fired for anti-Semitic comments. The CEO of Dior, Sidney Toledano, opened the show with a statement about Galliano's firing. Toledano, who is Jewish, revealed that Christian Dior's sister was sent to the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. Toledano talked about the ideals of the house of Dior and how wrenching the ordeal had been. The show went on, and at the end the entire Dior staff came out to take a bow. They were all wearing white lab-style coats. The mood was subdued -- almost funereal. Take a look:
