2 years have passed since the revealing video of John Galliano has come into the public’s eye in which he threw anti-semitic comments alongside other racially descriminating expressions into a room of a restaurant in Paris. Filmed by some nobody, distributed, seen and discussed by everyone.

The once so greatly celebrated designer of Dior and his own line, the brilliant head and the fashionably always surprising creator literally over night has opened some curtains of the industry’s destroying downside. And left an image of a sad person, who, above all hate and disorientated anger, couldn’t help himself any longer.

When I saw the images and heard the comments, I was (like almost everyone) left speechless, negatively surprised and with a big question mark of what will happen next.

I wrote about it and started thinking of where morals and fashion are actually meeting and when this all happens if it really does exist. Dior dismissed their creative head (justified!), many people officially cut off from the label and especially Galliano and many remained disappointed.

While I’m not a great philosopher and while we could go on arguing about the industry’s different morals and their regulations* for years and years, I was really into listening to this interview by Charlie Rose.

*(body images and eating disorders, child labour, model exploitation, cocaine and other heavy drug scandals alongside the greatly discussed seasonal depending preference of using fur not coming from a happy animal farm in sunshine-cupcake land… etc etc etc etc; you see there’s actually a lot to break this “where’s the moral, where’s the regulation”-topic down and write a book)

It surely was an important opportunity for Galliano to speak out about all these points and it was even more important to give some answers to the questions many people were having to all the different things Galliano did in the past.

There are so many different opinions out there and the only thing remaining to me is the question whether the industry should forgive what has been said and throw out a huge chance towards Galliano. Or whether it should carry on with an official no-mercy attitude, letting Galliano pay for his incredibly (!) big mistakes and prove that everything has its consequences in life.

Of course, it would be a highly controversial thing for Dior to welcome Galliano back and I doubt this will ever happen again.

But if someone would officially give out a hand to Galliano (may it be another company, fellow designer or editor-in-chief of our fashion digests followed by a pyramid-like system of others connected to them), will the rest of the people be able to do the same?

Will customers, celebrities (like Jewish Natalie Portman, who immediately reacted after the leaked video and quit her deal with Dior) and others be ready to react positively as well?

After all, isn’t response of the stimulating and consuming fashion-chain’s “big rest” the quintessential part to let someone like Galliano become someone important to this world again? Or wouldn’t that play any role at all?

All of these questions aren’t easily to answer and I leave it open to you and me.

This one particular video from Paris alongside other stories that leaked from “unknown sources” (their credibility can be equalled to its origin; totally not reliable as long as there is no clear proof) has first and foremost revealed the dark and sad side of a genius.

Nobody can possibly say whether he’s really supporting his anti-semitic statements and whether this is just a little try to come back by saying that he’s so sorry for what has happened. But who knows?

Galliano will stay an incredibly outstanding designer and that’s something we can’t really argue on, too (to me, he remains a true creator of simply beautiful clothes, yes, almost little art works).

But if you listen to this interview, which has aired last week, you clearly see his major regret, pain and self-struggle.

I don’t say that the big movers in this industry should go on and be like “Hey John, don’t worry any longer. You’ve been to rehab, here take your job back and continue your brilliance. Just shut up in future whenever you feel like you’re about to go crazy.”

After all, what he said was disgusting and disgraceful. But what clearly goes out of this very sharp and great interview, is the harsh and merciless image of something we can only partially imagine if we are not directly connected to the process and the world of one of the greatest designers of our time.

I leave you with the little bits and bobs of the interview (1,2 and 3) and the full interview (last one).

Since the last Youtube video (down there) is not part of Charlie Rose’s official Youtube site, I guess it will be taken down at some point; so in case that happens, here’s the official interview ready to be watched on the Charlie Rose online page.

http://youtu.be/Xb5eHXuvc8Y