Why fashion falls for fascists

Oscar Wilde commanded that “one should either be a work of art or wear a work of art.” What happens, though, when the shirt is sublime but the soul is twisted? That Dorian Gray-like question comes to mind in the wake of the decision by Condé Nast’s global chief content officer Anna Wintour and Metropolitan Museum costume curator Andrew Bolton to devote the 2027 Met Gala to John Galliano, a designer hailed as a visionary who has also spewed baroque bigotry. Call it “The Devil Wears Galliano.” Wintour reckons that the British designer’s work “combines erudition and creativity, darkness and light, the past, the present, the future all smashing together in a brilliant way.” Less brilliant was Galliano’s tirade in a Paris cafe in 2011, when cameras captured him screaming at a woman, “I love Hit