Dior Fires Designer John Galliano After Racist Video Surfaces
March 1 2011, Published 10:30 a.m. ET
Famed designer John Galliano, seen Monday at a police station in Paris, France, has been fired by Dior in the wake of accusations -- and video evidence -- of his hatred of Jewish people.
"Today, because of the particularly odious nature of the behavior and words of John Galliano in a video made public this Monday, the Christian Dior house has decided to lay him off immediately and has begun firing procedures against him,” the company said Tuesday.
Galliano was at the police station on Monday to speak with investigators over an incident last week, when a couple claimed he shouted anti-Semitic epithets at them.
Following the publicity stemming from that incident, the UK Sun on Monday published a video taken from a separate incident, in which Galliano publicly declared his love for Adolf Hitler.