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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Chloe Mac Donnell

Designer John Galliano to get unvarnished Met retrospective in May

Designer John Galliano in a white suit and decorated straw hat walks a fashion runway with giant orange flowers behind him
John Galliano at the end of his autumn-winter 2010-2011 show for Dior in Paris. Photograph: Benoît Tessier/Reuters

The controversial designer John Galliano is to get an unvarnished retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York next May.

Galliano, who is widely considered to be one of the most influential designers of the past four decades, was exiled from the industry in 2011 after he was filmed making a series of racist and antisemitic comments. He was fired from his position as creative director of Dior, a post he had held for 15 years, condemned by the media and later convicted and fined by a French court.

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