Jean Paul Gaultier: Galliano Not A Racist

Designer Jean Paul Gaultier has spoken out about John Galliano's dismissal by Dior. He said to AFP, "Everything he has done has not revealed someone who is racist -- quite to the contrary."

Regarding Galliano's "I love Hitler" rant, Gaultier remarked, "With recordings, people can be made to say things that they did not say. They pronounce some words, but what is the context? The person (speaking to Galliano) seems very assured, knowing very well what she is doing."

He also told the news service that the entire situation is very sad and that he avoids industry pressures by spending time with people outside of the fashion world.

Gaultier's words are similar to those of Roberto Cavalli, who told the Telegraph, Galliano is "such a wonderful person. I can't believe that he makes some racist toward somebody, because he's so international...I think that somebody wants to try to be bad with him. I think la Maison Dior should make to him a big red carpet because he helped Maison Dior to be what it is today. I don't want to judge anybody, but I love John. John, I am with you."

Check out more reactions from the fashion community here.

Comments

[Freedom Rush]

11:51 PM on 03/08/2011

so he's saying
who you gonna believe? me? or your lying eyes?

[logic-a-go-go]

11:34 PM on 03/08/2011

Now why destroy your credibility like this?

[bigdaveh]

05:41 PM on 03/08/2011

So two totally shallow like-minded designers back up Nazilliano and his rants. Now there are three more products you won't see on my wife's shelves or closets.

[MtnGeek]

10:40 AM on 03/08/2011

I'm surprised so many designers are coming to Galliano's defense, they'll start being guilty by association if they're not careful.

[flufferpoodle]

11:35 PM on 03/07/2011

Those who say that alcohol merely releases what is honestly in the heart have never had a one-night stand.

[JonStewart4President]

10:50 PM on 03/07/2011

He's right. Galliano isn't a racist!

He's a bigot. And deserved to be fired, and this garbage defending him is pretty pathetic of other designers. And somehow saying that the video has been made-up? Hope he didn't strain something with that reach.

[TheBestPatriot]

08:32 PM on 03/07/2011

A high end fashion designer proclaiming another high end designer isn't racist? Yikes!

You can make the argument that the fashion industry is racist.

[unami]

03:59 PM on 03/07/2011

I’ll meet you at the old hunting lodge near Berchtesgaden!

[T4]

02:22 PM on 03/07/2011

if he indeed he made the remarks,etc. he is still not a racist - saying someone likes HItler means what? or on the hand hand - Jews are not a race - they are a religious group. To say anything else is to feed the semitic fantasy of european jews and non-jews alike. You can become Jewish if you like.

[ipresumelikely]

01:28 PM on 03/08/2011

Correct. If he made those statements, he is a religious bigot...not a r@cist.

[Verytrueindeed]

12:52 PM on 03/07/2011

I don't understand why people are coming to Galliano's defense. There is no defense for what he said and the sense of his comments. I find it to be frightening that people say he is not that type of person and that he is actually innocent. It is just ridiculous. His comments were terrible and now he deserves to be punished for having made them.

[imonlyhereforthelaughs]

03:53 PM on 03/07/2011

What lead up to his remarks? What was going one before the camera rolled?

Glass houses.

[Stilyagi]

11:05 AM on 03/10/2011

Who cares? Not relevant. Does anyone force you to say what you say as well?

[PaticaDeGato]

12:06 PM on 03/07/2011

Kudos to Gaultier.

[theuniversalcollective]

12:22 PM on 03/07/2011

Don't you mean "See Kyle"?

[PaticaDeGato]

04:21 PM on 03/07/2011

I shall see Kyle on South Park.

[theuniversalcollective]

11:22 AM on 03/07/2011

Galiano = Check
Patricia Fields = Check
Gultier = Check

Makin a list and checkin it twice

[PelePele10]

12:02 PM on 03/07/2011

Are they all getting stocking stuffers?

[Sabrina DAmico]

08:11 AM on 03/07/2011

*been at her house
not horse
lol

[Indigo1941]

08:11 AM on 03/07/2011

Galliano is a brilliant designer. That doesn't make him a shrewd politician.

[Silvio Dante]

09:54 AM on 03/07/2011

Does not make him a racist either.

[Indigo1941]

11:02 AM on 03/07/2011

Well, yes. I kind of thought I'd implied that but maybe not. All in all, I think it's a tempest in teapot.

[theuniversalcollective]

12:18 PM on 03/07/2011

No. Saying he loves Hitler does.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhbwiKsXl_k

any questions?

[janedoe31]

08:01 AM on 03/07/2011

Everyone is so sensitive..........i've heard and joked about being called a whop....why is that not considered anti semite........funny how some get to have their own words and cry when it is of international news. when someone is pushed to the end or not in the right state of mind including a mad rage san alcohol...defensive words & words come from no where....it is a defence mechanism and made to hurt the other person....finding the weak spot so to speak...........that situation makes one say things. That person that was egging him on certainly knew exactly what he/she was doing.....the provoker should be reprimanded as well.

[Souris9]

09:44 AM on 03/07/2011

It isn't considered anti semitic because it's a word insulting Italians, not Jews.

[logic-a-go-go]

11:37 PM on 03/08/2011

Oh, geez. The fact that you had to explain that is...just...unbelievable. But thanks for being more patient than me.

[Silvio Dante]

09:53 AM on 03/07/2011

Whoa, gobagool? Ova'here!