John Galliano To Collaborate With Topshop? Update: No

Update: This one went down quickly. Green contacted Vogue UK to say, "I saw John Galliano at Kate's wedding last Friday. I did not discuss any business with him then, nor have I since."

Previously: Today in fashion fact-or-fiction: dismissed Dior designer John Galliano could be back in business with a collection for Topshop.

Vogue UK writes that Galliano and Sir Philip Green "converged last week" at Kate Moss' nuptials and "the plan was conceived, but discussions -- which are said to be in the earliest stages -- look set to take place soon." The glossy adds that Galliano worked chez Topshop when he was in school and "the move would be a fashion resurrection for Galliano, currently awaiting judgement for charges of public insult in Paris, especially as his return would be under the wing of Green, one of the country's most influential Jewish businessmen."

We're not entirely sold on this story -- after all, it seems all of Green's dinner dates are in line for some sort of collaboration with his fashion chain, from Gwyneth Paltrow to Courtney Love (that one was later denied).

But whether or not you buy the rumors, we'd still like to know if you'd buy the clothes.

Quick Poll

Galliano for Topshop:

SURE! I'd at least take a look.

HECK NO! Lower price points aren't going to fix anything.

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Read more at Vogue.co.uk.

Comments

[pcplz]

12:21 PM on 07/10/2011

Galliano looks better than he has in years. He looked rather dissipated for the last several years. He looks healthy and young here.

[janedoe31]

04:41 PM on 07/09/2011

Galliano was out of it...what excuse do the Bachman's have????...they are just ignorant.

[Tokie]

01:53 PM on 07/09/2011

This guy wins the Mel Gibson award for drunken tirades that gives everyone an incite into their own true personality.

[eXpresso]

01:43 PM on 07/09/2011

He makes beautiful clothes ... for other people. Why can't he dress himself?

[ArChiMi]

09:31 PM on 07/09/2011

Oh come on! He is a gay genius eccentric. Do you want him to dress like George Bush?

[eXpresso]

10:19 PM on 07/09/2011

LOL. What an image.

[pcplz]

12:22 PM on 07/10/2011

NO.....I want George Bush to dress like him!!

[JBaker]

09:04 PM on 07/08/2011

Galliano is gay, and he should know better than to trash other minorities. Galliano has the manners of a vulgar angry queen, yet what does he have to be angry about? Like too many in the fashion industry, when you scratch below the painted surface, all you find is attitude, and more attitude. It simply gets boring...

[furby6]

08:00 PM on 07/08/2011

No more Galliano in my closet.. kidding. I don't like him, but he makes nice clothes. What can you do?

[PaticaDeGato]

02:32 PM on 07/08/2011

Insulting gays is acceptable (see Sasha Baron Cohen's Bruno), but drunken anti-semitism?

*gasp*

Quelle horreur! À la Bastille!!!!!

[Victoria-nola]

02:46 PM on 07/09/2011

Bruno does not insult gays, for heaven's sake he's a wonderful satirical character. But yes, homophobia is never acceptable. Just as anti-Semitism is never acceptable.

[ArChiMi]

02:10 PM on 07/08/2011

I am thrilled for this talented man to be given a second chance.

[chuckinla]

04:13 PM on 07/08/2011

He's brilliant and the world of fashion is at a loss without his supreme vision.

[ArChiMi]

04:21 PM on 07/08/2011

Very true. I saw the last Dior show and how pathetic it looked. The replacing designers are a galaxy away from John's league.

[JBaker]

08:58 PM on 07/08/2011

The man should learn how to dress himself so he doesn't look like a clown.

[Tzaims Luksus FRSA]

12:38 PM on 07/08/2011

Please! Enough Galliano.

[MayaHarris28]

12:09 PM on 07/08/2011

His Art has nothing to do with his drunken tirades.Let the artist work.In a world where most clothes, shoes and bags are produced in sweatshops by underpaid sometimes abused people and children , Why is there no outrage in that?
Yet when a drunken designer rants and raves they want to put on a stake.
We live in a world where it's okay to abuse children and third world folk, yet antisemitism remarks are considered a crime.

[PaticaDeGato]

02:29 PM on 07/08/2011

Delighful, incisive, truthful comment. 100% d'accord.

[ArChiMi]

04:23 PM on 07/08/2011

Very well said.

[Tzaims Luksus FRSA]

11:54 AM on 07/08/2011

Actually John Galliano should take a long break and vacation on a South Pacific Island if he isn't sent to Jail in Paris. One day he will be able to buy back his own label and design under John Galliano but in the meantime some time is needed for people to forgive and forget. An exhausted artist/designer making comments at Le Perle cafe in Paris is soon forgotten and in 20-30 years he can make a come-back when he has had a chance to develop his design-image. In the meantime his assistant at Dior is doing "Total Galliano" so Galliano would only now be copying his assistant. See you later Galligator!

[Tzaims Luksus FRSA]

11:44 AM on 07/08/2011

If John Galliano is spared going to jail wouldn't it be better for him to take a long vacation on a private island somewhere in the Pacific? In a few years he can come back under his own label again once Bernard Arnault decides to un-incorporate it. People easily forget what an exhausted artist/designer says at La Perle cafe in Paris. Maybe this was just a wake-up call for Juan Galliano and a rest is what he needs now...afterall he is over 50 years old. Most fashion designers give it up at that age and maybe come back when they are 80 years old.

[Urbane Worrier]

10:44 AM on 07/08/2011

Fabulous news.

Heck, I come out in hives if an anti-semite DOESNT design my clothes.

Shame on Philip Green if he's entertaining this idea.
Bad enough that he doesnt pay his taxes, but being venal and self hating enough to employ a rac!st.

[Tomass De]

10:54 AM on 07/08/2011

just put yourself in condom and shoot some bleach in your brain idiot

[Urbane Worrier]

11:04 AM on 07/08/2011

For the sake of Oxygen thieves like Tomass De.

I was being dry. Sarcasm. You should try it.

Tomass- you're a half wit.

[anastasiabeaverhousen]

12:54 PM on 07/08/2011

Oxygen thief??? LOL

[ArChiMi]

04:25 PM on 07/08/2011

You missed the mark if that was humor.

[tcnsrq]

10:10 AM on 07/08/2011

everybody deserves a second chance. He made some very poor choices which led to some very dissapointing behaviour....and lets get real....is he really worse than Bachman and her husband that would put gays in reparative therapy or worse....because according to the Bachman's they "choose" to be gay??....lets get real??...what was/is more harmful?

[Urbane Worrier]

10:48 AM on 07/08/2011

Better to be anti semite than h0m0phobe ?

There isnt much mileage to be had from arguing which bigotry is worse.

[tcnsrq]

12:32 PM on 07/08/2011

what Galliano did was vile...but Galliano isn't hurting anyone...lest they are foolish enough to be hurt by a drunken drug addicted guy blubbering about...and I hope he gets the therapy he needs....he has a long road to redemption....the Bachmans however are doing real harm....playing with peoples lives....ruining them actually with ridiculous notions that they can "cure" gays....that is not only immoral but unethical bordering on the criminal.

[JJovana]

09:51 AM on 07/08/2011

Dont get me wrong, I love Topshop, they have great stuff, on the par with H&M and F21, maybe bit better quality, but Galliano is better than that. He's a master couturier. He needs a challenge.