Humor Chic News - Natalie Portman condemns Galliano's actions

The jewish star who was chosen as the face of Miss Dior Cherie fragrance says she will have nothing to do with Galliano in any way. Portman, who was chosen by Dior last year to be the face of the Miss Dior Cherie fragrance, strongly condemned Galliano saying in a statement “I am deeply shocked and disgusted by the video of John Galliano’s comments that surfaced today. In light of this video, and as an individual who is proud to be Jewish, I will not be associated with Mr. Galliano in any way. I hope at the very least, these terrible comments remind us to reflect and act upon combating these still-existing prejudices that are the opposite of all that is beautiful.”

Natalie Portman, is an Israeli and American actress, she is also the brand new face of Dior perfume.

Humor Chic - Sidney Toledano, raining on Dior

Sidney Toledano, chief executive of Christian Dior

Humor Chic - John Galliano, I LOVE HITLER

Film of Galliano's racist rant in bar

Humor Chic Trend Alert - John Galliano, Nazi Chic

«Dirty jewish face, you should be dead»

«Fucking Asian bastard, I will kill you»

said John Galliano! Oh...Crazy!

Christian Dior has suspended its star British fashion designer John Galliano after he was arrested for an alleged assault and making antisemitic remarks after a late-night drinking session.

The chief executive of Dior, Sidney Toledano, said Galliano had been removed from his post. "Dior affirms with the utmost conviction its policy of zero tolerance towards any antisemitic or racist words or behaviour. Pending the results of the inquiry Christian Dior has suspended John Galliano from his responsibilities."

The designer was arrested in the Marais district after allegedly verbally accosting a couple sitting on a cafe terrace.The area is the historic centre of the Jewish community in Paris and was heavily targeted in the deportation roundups of the Nazi occupation. In recent years its narrow streets have been taken over by fashionable shops and bars.

Nooo, Fuck... Mr Galliano

Humor Chic - John Galliano and Anne Frank, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck Galliano

Dior suspends John Galliano after antisemitism row

Humor Chic's point of view - The slick tricks of Italian fashion and how it fakes support for new talent!

I’ve received too many e-mails to mention them all, but you asked me to deal with the topic and I feel duty bound not to disappoint you!

For many years at Milan Fashion Week there have been repeated events supposedly showcasing new talents. But what are they? Logically, they’re nonexistent.

Among the first to engage in these cunning and deceptive operations is the Chamber of Fashion, always adept at manipulating reality. It is followed closely by the little Italian Vogue, a wretched magazine which sells just 25,000-30,000 copies in Italy, which is tiny compared to the sales of magazines like ELLE or Marie Claire, the real ironclads of Italian fashion publishing.

Why does this happen? Simply because it’s a way to continue to pen up, control and screen the abilities of all real innovators, by closing them up in a corner. Those people always operate in their own interest and that of a small minority of older firms and the usual big name stylists, their gentlemen friends who over the years have established a very privileged relationship which enables them to undermine the rules of professional and ethical conduct which should apply to everyone, especially between the press and fashion houses. The result is a vicious circle based on personal contacts, leading to dementia and the power of the lobbies.

So instead of fostering and giving passionate and professional support to the real talents (the ones that show their collections without anyone’s support and have laboriously created their own company structures), they prefer to create a smokescreen by constantly organizing stupid events, fashion collectives and so forth, which are no more than self-promotion, not of the young but of themselves. A great way to confuse and hoodwink the vision of young people, who imagine they’re on the right track.

All crap, crap produced by unscrupulous people who have reduced the Made in Italy label to a joke.

And gullible, really, really gullible all those young people who let themselves be used as ingredients in these stinking stews. If they were really talented they would never lend themselves to these junkets. And if they had a little commonsense they would never end up in the clutches of other characters like Dolce & Gabbana, cunning at managing to make people believe their boutique of monobrand accessories has become a multi-brand boutique in favor of young people. A right load of bull, which has just one clear purpose, to promote themselves at a very difficult time for the brand, creating a new zero-cost marketing channel that allows them to use young people as a way to promote their own business. Poor spineless, brainless youngsters. But they’re really smart, the old guard, who will continue to control the flow of refugees and desperate people who come knocking at their door every day, reality.

Young people with brains and talent, and with their balls in the right place, those who don’t live by wagging their asses or use the word Love at all hours, don’t bow down to these people, don’t yield to their flattery, their falsehoods, don’t compromise, don’t abandon your convictions. Keep hold of your own personality and give a good many kicks, real hard kicks in the ass to all those who attempt to block you, because that’s the only way to build up your credibility.

Revolution!

Humor Chic Manifesto - Albert Einstein by aleXsandro Palombo

Humor Chic News - Anna Love's Humor

"They always have a sense of humour and that's something we could afford to have a little bit more of here in the States" said Anna Wintour
via Vogue UK

Humor Chic - Anna Wintour, Grace Coddington and Karl Lagerfeld. Welcome to Milan Fashion Week

New York fashion week was followed by London fashion week which is coming to an end turning the spotlight onto Milan. It is interesting toreado and above all to hear of the enourmous amount of bullshit which the Milanese fashion system produces every season with the clear intent of discrediting all the other events starting from New York which, as the usual Italian press would have it, is nothing but a low level querelle, showcasing names that will never be able to equal the grandeur of Italian stylists (and of course, who could ever evade taxes like the Italians do? With the US legilsation you'd be locked up for life...)

Italian newspapers have reported that:

-The new Lincoln Center headquarters are just a political move in order to attract the media seeing as their calendar is lacking in prestigious names.

- Stars and Stripes brands are not internationally distributed, and if they are it is on a somewhat ridiculous scale.

-Marc Jabos' latest allover Pois collection?"A copy" of Prada...

This is what another desperate reporter writes on the worst Italian newspaper. However one must recognize that she has always been very good at "selling herself" well (this should be a good moment for her seeing as in Italy Whores are strongly in fashion).

As concerns London fashion week on the other hand, the Italian press bypasses, labelling it as nonexistant and producing nothing but awful rags which can in no way be worn. (aaagh... shame that those who say so then suddenly become all chummy and suck up to the English stylists!! Oh get the cream out quick, shit I'm coming out in a rash...)

Anyway, let's take things easy because as well as the usual desperate Italian journalists there is another voice we can't ignore: that of the Italian Fashion Chamber which does nothing but repeat the usual slogans such as "We are the world's capital of fashion", "We are the best", "Americans only have local brands and will never be able to compete with our global standards", and so on and so forth.

They are at the terminal stage, they have Alzheimer's and have forgotten they are under investigation by Milanese magistrates.

Anyway, we shouldn't be wasting time with these walking corpses, we will be back soon to reveal many awkward and entertaining facts which will certainly help freshen you breath daily.

A warm welcome to all!

Humor Chic - Paul Smith, Welcome to London Fashion Week

Humor Chic Manifesto - Albert Einstein by aleXsandro Palombo

Albert Einstein

Humor Chic - Vivienne Westwood, Welcome to London Fashion Week

Vivienne Westwood

Humor Chic - Grace Coddington, I LOVE NY

Humor Chic - Michelle Obama, I LOVE NY

Humor Chic - Iris Apfel, a young star

We Love Iris Apfel

Humor Chic Manifesto - Albert Einstein by aleXsandro Palombo

Humor Chic - Kim Hastreiter, Paper magazine's editor, Welcome To New York City

Humor Chic - Hooray for Alexander McQueen

If every now and then you stopped and in a gesture of extreme gratitude you raised your eyes to the sky you would understand why artists never die....

aleXsandro Palombo

Humor Chic - Jonathan Newhouse. Important internal communication

After decades of false and total blindness, the chairman of Condé Nast, Jonathan Newhouse, has decided to issue an internal memo informing all the chickens in the hen house that the party’s over!

In January, in one of Condé Nast's internal memos, Mr. Newhouse reminded editors that the company policy did not allow them to take on outside jobs without permission. Interesting!

So it means if they want to do consultancy work outside the company they have to ask for permission ... from the Rooster?

Hmm! We’ll be returning to this matter soon, but I don’t want to reveal why. Now I’ll let you enjoy the parades. I don’t want to spoil the party for the whole hen house!

Stay tuned ... Love you!

Au Revoir chicest!

Humor Chic - Carine Roitfeld, last flight to New York

She touched base in New York to take part in a charity event, but won’t be attending any fashion shows.

Carine Roitfeld says in a month’s time she’ll unveil her new project and professional commitment. She says she’s sad but also happy to have regained her freedom. She’s a punk girl! So there's the risk she might launch a punk-rock band with that survivor Courtney Love? ... She added that the latest controversial number of Vogue stirred up a hornet’s nest for her boss, who’s been fielding complaints from advertisers.

Meanwhile, rumors have it she’s in the running for Vanity Fair or for the launch of an entirely new magazine on which she’s to be editor. This will be interesting.

We'll see. Meanwhile it’s certain that now everyone at Condé Nast have turned their backs on her, goodness knows why….

Just think of a beautiful peacock, always out of place among all those ... chickens!

Brrr!

Au revoir Chicest

Humor Chic - Andy Warhol, Bienvenue a New York

Humor Chic - Perez Hilton, Welcome to New York Fashion Week

Humor Chic - Rihanna, Welcome to New York Fashion Week

Humor Chic - Ralph Lauren, Welcome to New York Fashion Week

Ralph Lauren

Humor Chic - Marc Jacobs, Welcome to New York Fashion Week

Humor Chic - Anna Wintour, Welcome to New York Fashion Week

Humor Chic - Sonia Rykiel, edge, line and color

I don’t think there's much to say about Sonia Rykiel, her style, her work says everything about her and says it well. I love it.

I just thought this was the right time to do some original and refined imagines as a homage to her by illustrating my dream imagery.

After all, her distinctive lines are the most widely copied in the season ... Who by, first of all? By that foxy lady, Miuccia Prada ...

Humor Chic - Giorgio Armani, farther and farther away from the ...

The latest collection of haute couture Giorgio Armani Privé? Sublime.

Armani has put himself on the line, with extreme intelligence. He’s been able to fully grasp the times, in a way no one else has understood them or known how to.

He’s done it with extreme elegance at a time when fashion is out of fashion, a time when the aesthetic is the daughter of ignorance, a time when style no longer has an identity.

Armani has demolished himself with an act of courage, modern and imaginative, reminding us with a single incisive stroke of the true meaning of the word ... fashion.

Humor Chic - Valentino, ever closer to the....

As we anticipated earlier (read here) Valentino Garavani did not turn up for the last Haute Couture fashion show styled by his two Pupils.

On the other hand the tragedy was repeated with a parade of smelly old garments, grandma’s soup, so to speak. Its only merit? Being unutterably boring. Countdown? All together now!

Oops!

I was forgetting. Here’s some good news. All the store windows at the Valentino boutique are abloom with the new Spring/Summer 2011 collection, little dresses for ol’ ladies tone on tone with old-style effect flower appliqués, nylon handbags printed with the prairie in bloom (horrible) and then if you go into the boutique you’re welcomed by big vases full of flowers ... fuck, it stinks of the cemetery!

Run away ... Au Revoir Chicest

Humor Chic - Hermes has a message for Bernard Arnault

Hermes has a message for Bernard Arnault

Humor Chic - Karl Lagerfeld, New Era

Humor Chic - Rebecca Minkoff, hot accessories designer. New Era

Humor Chic - Anna Wintour, New Era