John Galliano

John Galliano's last Dior collection, shown without him, Paris, March 4, 2011 The most abrupt ending here. Dior dismissed Galliano days before the show over anti-Semitic remarks, and the house went ahead with his Fall 2011 ready-to-wear collection under a tent in the Rodin Museum gardens after an apology from chief executive Sidney Toledano. There was no designer's bow. Instead the seamstresses, tailors and embroiderers who made the clothes walked out together to a standing ovation. It closed a tenure of around 14 years and stands as a hard lesson that a farewell is not always chosen.