Galliano Addresses Alcoholism in First Interview Since His Anti-Semitic Rant

John Galliano acknowledges applause at the end of the presentation of his Fall-Winter 2010-2011 Ready to Wear fashion collection, presented in Paris, Friday, March. 5, 2010. (Jacques Brinon/AP)

Here’s to hoping that John Galliano’s latest attempt at career resuscitation will fare better than his cancelled master class series at Parsons: The New School for Design. The disgraced designer, whose 2011 anti-Semitic remarks had him fired from the helm of Christian Dior as well as his own namesake label, sat down for a revealing profile with Ingrid Sischy for July’s issue of Vanity Fair—his first interview since the infamous outburst. Posting a preview of the article to its website on Tuesday, Vanity Fair says that the piece will discuss “beatings and childhood taunting; his fashion education and the development of his eye; and how being ‘a slave’ to his success led [Galliano] down a path of addiction.”