British designer John Galliano presented this Wednesday in Room XVII Correctional Court of Paris, where he will be tried for alleged racist insults that cost the dismissal of fashion house Christian Dior. Dark suit and long hair, the designer of 50 years was presented in the courtroom presided over by Justice Anne-Marie Sauteraud after bypass the hundreds of journalists from international media accredited to cover the trial.
The designer has assured the court to judge does not remember such insults and has been detoxing from its triple addiction to alcohol, barbiturates and sleeping pills.
The designer explained in English that after the last of the three incidents that have cost two complaints and dismissal as the creator of the fashion house Christian Dior, followed by a rehabilitation cure in Arizona (USA) and Switzerland. Dressed in a baggy black suit, Galliano did not deny the facts alleged and would only say that the cocktail of pills and alcohol he had consumed not let you remember most of the facts.
"After rehabilitation realized how dangerous it was the cocktail," added the designer, who admitted to drinking regularly since in 2007 he lost his partner Steve Robinson and due to the increased workload at Dior, which increasingly drew more collections and clothing lines. Last February, the fashion designer allegedly uttered anti-Semitic and racist slurs against a couple sitting next to him at the bar "La Perle" in the central Marais district of the French capital, where police took him away.
The designer has assured the court to judge does not remember such insults and has been detoxing from its triple addiction to alcohol, barbiturates and sleeping pills.
The designer explained in English that after the last of the three incidents that have cost two complaints and dismissal as the creator of the fashion house Christian Dior, followed by a rehabilitation cure in Arizona (USA) and Switzerland. Dressed in a baggy black suit, Galliano did not deny the facts alleged and would only say that the cocktail of pills and alcohol he had consumed not let you remember most of the facts.
"After rehabilitation realized how dangerous it was the cocktail," added the designer, who admitted to drinking regularly since in 2007 he lost his partner Steve Robinson and due to the increased workload at Dior, which increasingly drew more collections and clothing lines. Last February, the fashion designer allegedly uttered anti-Semitic and racist slurs against a couple sitting next to him at the bar "La Perle" in the central Marais district of the French capital, where police took him away.
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