A planned nine-month retrospective of the work of fashion designer John Galliano at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has been called off following backlash over the British designer's 2011 conviction for anti-Semitic and anti-Asian comments. Footage surfaced in 2011 showing Galliano hurling racist and anti-Semitic slurs at patrons in a Paris bar the previous year.
Top fashion designer John Galliano announced Monday he was cancelling an exhibition of his work that was to kick off New York's Met Gala next spring, following criticism from donors and political leaders over his past anti-Semitic remarks.
