Well, you’ve probably heard the shocking news about John Galliano.
Not that he was fired by Christian Dior.
Not that he said all sorts of disgusting, vicious, antiSemitic things.
No, I’m going to the shocking fact that existed before any of that. The one I discovered when I heard of him for the first time, a couple of days ago, and I went “who’s that?” and I looked to see, and was totally stunned that somebody — a name designer house, in fact — was paying this person to design clothes.
I can’t post any picture to support my shock here, because I can’t seem to find anything in the public domain. So I will refer you to pictures of him elsewhere, courtesy of Google Images. Such as this one. And this one. And this one. And this one.
Or the first one I saw, in the WSJ the other day.
And now, if you’ve looked at any of those links, you’re wondering the same thing I am — having had a look at his own, personal expression of taste, who would pay him to design anything?
Dior, apparently. But why, I don’t know.
That’s a whole universe that I just do not get… and I don’t think I want to. You want answers to fashion and stuff like that, check with my friend The Shop Tart.
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Another shocking fact — that I’m hearing about this, that news media are covering this, in a world in which northern Africa and the Middle East are on fire with revolution. And in which there are a billion other more important things going on.
I mean, look at this frickin’ guy. Somebody expected him to act like a sensible person? Yet when I started looking for actual news for my Virtual Front Page for today, I kept running into coverage of this joker…
He looks like Boy George without a sense of humor.
OMG! He looks like Lady Gaga!
Dude–looking at you, no one would expect you were in a “creative” field–you dress like a banker on holiday in the country, yet you are indubitably an asset to Adco. Same with Galliano– he dresses (dressed) Madame Bruny-Sarkozy, for one, who is my style icon. She makes Jackie Kennedy look a tad dowdy….
http://www.stylelist.com/2010/12/23/carla-bruni-sarkozy-style-evolution/
Or Barney Fife dressed up like the cleaning lady to catch the bank robbers.
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Next you’ll being blogging about Charlie Sheen!
Wait… just to be precise… Carla isn’t all THAT hot. She’s sexy, and beautiful, but… I’m disturbed by how skinny she is.
Maybe that’s why the fashionistas like to dress her. They don’t like healthy women’s bodies.
Kathryn:
— It’s not the CLOTHES that make that French chick hot. I’m pretty sure ol’ Nick, when he first saw her, didn’t think, “What style!”
— Don’t say bad things about Jackie. Jackie Kennedy, anyway. Say whatever you want about Jackie O.
— In the picture on the link you provided, Madame is wearing an outfit that it looks like she stole it from Jackie’s closet. In fact — isn’t that the suit she was wearing the day Jack got shot?
It isn’t about her hotness. It’s about how beautifully she dresses. I, for one, could not care less about her “hotness.” I guess it’s that old straight chick thing.
Jackie was wearing a pink suit that day. Mme. Carla does not wear pink: gray, blue, taupe, a touch of plum, maybe….
That’s not pink? The picture you see first when you call up that link? I mean, just KINDA pink, like really light pink? Not Jackie pink, but still pink?
Dang. Maybe I’d better not apply for that new opening at Dior…
It’s somewhere between cream and, maybe blush. I suspect it’s cream and the light made it have a slight tinge of apricot.
Bianca rocks.
The suit you sought:
https://lisawallerrogers.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/jackie-kennedys-pink-suit/
which is mos def pink.
Speaking of hot — well, some of us were — for some reason, when I was looking for a link for the above comment, and typed “Jackie Kennedy pink suit” into Google Images, I got this picture of Bianca. Don’t know why, but I didn’t complain…