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PARIS — The French fashion house Christian Dior said Tuesday that it would dismiss its chief designer, John Galliano, after the surfacing of a video that showed his anti-Semitic outbursts at a Paris bar....   >>>

PARIS — The French fashion house Christian Dior said Tuesday that it would dismiss its chief designer, John Galliano, after the surfacing of a video that showed his anti-Semitic outbursts at a Paris bar.



In a brief statement, Sidney Toledano, Dior Couture’s chief executive, said he condemned ‘‘in the strongest terms’’ Mr. Galliano’s words, ‘‘which are in total contradiction with the essential values that have always been defended by the Christian Dior house.’’



Dior, however, was still planning to go ahead with its autumn/winter 2011 ready-to-wear show on Friday as part of Paris fashion week. A spokeswoman for a separate label, John Galliano, said its women’s wear show would also go ahead as scheduled Sunday.



The above are excerpts from an article in The New York Times by Matthew Saltmarsh entitled “Dior Fires John Galliano After Bigotry Complaints”. For the full article, click on the link below.





Photo: NY Times / Remy De La Mauviniere / Associated Press