I saw this op-ed in the NYTimes and it made me think of your post on Galliano this morning. I’m sure you’ve already seen it. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/opinion/07Garelick.html?_r=1

No, actually, I hadn’t seen this article. Thanks a bunch for pointing me to it.

Here’s a clickable link and some quotes, although the piece is very well worth reading as it touches on many of the unsavory issues in the fashion industry I mentioned in my post this morning, and more:

Which brings us back to Mr. Galliano in the Paris bar. His was not a generic anti-Semitic tirade, but the self-conscious pronouncement of a world-class arbiter of taste (“I am John Galliano!”). Not only did he use ethnic slurs, he accused the woman of being unattractive and unfashionable, associating both with ethnicity, with being Jewish (which she happened not to be).

The link is clear: like a fascist demagogue of yore, he was declaring that she did not belong to the gilded group who wear the right boots, and from this Mr. Galliano slid effortlessly to a condemnation of her very flesh, and a wish for her death.

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