{"id":29449,"date":"2026-08-06T05:30:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T00:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=29449"},"modified":"2026-08-06T05:30:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T00:30:48","slug":"anna-wintour-has-rubber-stamped-bigotry-by-picking-antisemitic-galliano-for-met-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=29449","title":{"rendered":"Anna Wintour has rubber-stamped bigotry by picking antisemitic Galliano for Met show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F08%2Fnewspress-collage-tq3xj2g1i-1785865762961.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261785851441\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Call me old-fashioned, but didn\u2019t publicly exclaiming \u201cI love Hitler\u201d used to automatically disqualify people from receiving prestigious honors in Manhattan?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m pretty sure it did.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, in these topsy-turvy times, flagrant and repeated antisemitism gets you the red carpet treatment in the Bigoted Apple.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Disgraced designer John Galliano will be the subject of the Met Costume Institute\u2019s 2027 show. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for The Met Museum\/Vogue<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Saying \u201cF\u2013king Jewish bitch!\u201d and \u201cJewish c\u2013t\u201d to a woman at a bar is apparently not a dealbreaker whatsoever for Her Royal Haughtiness Anna Wintour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Cond\u00e9 Nast bigwig and former Vogue editor just proved it by <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/08\/02\/style\/met-gala-2027-to-honor-controversial-fashion-designer-john-galliano\/\">picking disgraced fashion British designer John Galliano<\/a> as next year\u2019s Met Costume Institute show focus.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--more inline-module--columnist inline-module--more--thirds\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading subsection-heading subsection-heading--single-line \">\n\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"subsection-heading__sub\">Johnny Oleksinski<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Anna said, \u201cThere is no one more deserving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, the one-time Christian Dior creative director, who was found guilty in France in 2011 of<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/03\/14\/lifestyle\/john-galliano-still-cant-explain-his-2011-antisemitic-rant\/\"> going on antisemitic and racist rants<\/a>, will be feted at the 2027 Met Gala, NYC\u2019s annual gated-community prom, by A-List stars, sports icons, artists and politicians. <\/p>\n<p>Haven\u2019t we spent the last six years being lectured about inclusion by the exact same elite attendees of this $100,000-per-person event?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Haven\u2019t they loudly driven the point home \u2014 typically in the service of self-preservation \u2014 that words and deeds matter and have consequences?<\/p>\n<p>Why, yes they have.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Anna Wintour said \u201cthere is no one more deserving\u201d than Galliano. <span class=\"credit\">MediaPunch \/ BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thus, in choosing Galliano, Wintour and her celeb pals are effectively saying, \u201cExcept when it comes to vile hate speech about Jews.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s totally fine with them. In-Vogue, even.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, this is not some vetting \u201cwhoopsie!\u201d in which social media users dug up old offensive tweets. Galliano\u2019s guilt is common knowledge. Wintour didn\u2019t become the world\u2019s only famous editor by being dumb. She knows exactly what she\u2019s doing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wintour wasn\u2019t caught between a rock and a racist. Galliano isn\u2019t on the verge of death. He\u2019s 65 \u2014 not 90. The Met hasn\u2019t exhausted its supply of designers to showcase. <\/p>\n<p>This is a carefully constructed, calculated exercise in a pal\u2019s image rehab that\u2019s happening opportunistically at a time when she knows she\u2019ll get minimal pushback in the press for rubber-stamping an antisemite. Indeed, she has not.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Galliano was caught on video making vile antisemitic remarks in a Paris bar in 2011. <span class=\"credit\">Dave Benett\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The devil not only wears Prada \u2014 she issues public pardons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no one more deserving of an exhibition of this scale than John Galliano,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/john-galliano-met-exhibition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wintour said on Vogue.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No one more deserving!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a great designer and his career isn\u2019t defined by a moment \u2013 something that he will live with for the rest of his life. The exhibition won\u2019t shy away from any of the darkness in John\u2019s past. It\u2019s part of what has shaped him. The show will take in the full arc of his career and grapple with all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A k a a couple of placards buried amidst hundreds of fabulous couture dresses.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The Met Gala is the highlight of New York\u2019s spring calendar. <span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What exactly does Wintour consider a fleeting lapse of judgement?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Would it be this quote caught on video at the Paris bar Le Perle in 2011?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love Hitler, and people like you would be dead today,\u201d the designer, who says he was drunk, is seen telling a Jewish woman. \u201cYour mothers, your forefathers, would be f\u2013king gassed and f\u2013king dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s only one takeaway to be had: That\u2019s evil.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the damning video dropped, Galliano was fired from Dior, went to rehab and reportedly met with the Anti-Defamation League.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Really, though, had there been no filmed evidence and therefore no conviction, would he have done either? Not a chance. That was a desperate, last-ditch effort to salvage the scraps of his career.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Galliano said in court that he has no memory of the incidents. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for BFC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In court, Galliano testified he had no memory of the incidents in 2010 and 2011. The woman claimed he said the word \u201cJewish\u201d at least 30 times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Galliano blamed the tirade on his addiction to alcohol, valium and sleeping pills. Excuse me? Booze did not make any disgusting, bigoted comments. He did. Pills did not sinisterly plant those abhorrent thoughts into his head. They were already there.<\/p>\n<p>Yet what did Wintour say? Ah, yes. \u201cThere is no one more deserving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Anna\u2019s gone full-out to ensure that everyone falls in line.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reported that Wintour and Met Costume Institute head Andrew Bolton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/31\/style\/met-gala-costume-institute-john-galliano.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have met with \u201cinfluential rabbis and Jewish leaders\u201d <\/a>in New York City \u201cto get their thoughts on the potential issues with next year\u2019s planned fashion extravaganza \u2026 and perhaps their blessing for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yuck. All it should earn is their full-throated condemnation.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The designer had a high-profile residency with Oscar de la Renta in 2013. <span class=\"credit\">WireImage for Dior<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is not an endorsement of cancel culture. People can and have hired Galliano. Two years after the incident, he landed a high-profile residency with Oscar de la Renta that Wintour reportedly helped broker. You can see the pattern here.<\/p>\n<p>Her failure this time is not recognizing the obvious difference between forgiveness and celebration.<\/p>\n<p>She simply cannot throw a giant party, the biggest cultural event of the spring, honoring the guy who flatly said \u201cI love Hitler\u201d angrily at a Jewish bar patron. Ever. But especially right now.<\/p>\n<p>According to NYPD data, about half of all hate crimes committed in 2026 have been against Jewish New Yorkers \u2014 the largest share of any group.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Picking Galliano as the Met show\u2019s focus sends a loud-and-clear message. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This bash is sending a loud-and-clear message from tastemakers that antisemitism is OK \u2014 nay, worthy of a showcase and glamorous ball.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the only conclusion from what the all-powerful Anna has proclaimed from behind her sunglasses: For her ilk, there is <em>no one<\/em> more deserving.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call me old-fashioned, but didn\u2019t publicly exclaiming \u201cI love Hitler\u201d used to automatically disqualify people from receiving prestigious honors in Manhattan? 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