Designer’s long-awaited interview at Vogue festival kept a rigid focus on the catwalk, skirting awkwardly around 2011 incident that led to him departing Dior
In the wake of disgrace such as that which embroiled John Galliano there is first rehab, and then there is rehabilitation. Galliano, whose bizarre anti-semitic rant in a Paris bar in 2011 brought his drink and drug problems into the public eye, tackled the first with long stays at the Meadows clinic in Arizona.
The second, more subtle issue of his public rehabilitation was the focus of an appearance at the Vogue festival in London, the designer’s first public speaking engagement since the scandal.