TRASH TALKING
After 14 years at the creative helm of Christian Dior, John Galliano was dismissed for making anti-Semitic statements at a bar in
Paris in 2011. In one report, an inebriated Galliano was upset at a
couple who had called him ugly. According to a witness, Galliano replied
to the woman: “You’re ugly, and your bag is ugly, too.” Galliano was
fined $8,500 for his actions. No word on whether the woman was fined for
criminal accessorizing.
LOOK MA’AM, NO PANTS!
Vivienne Westwood picked up her O.B.E. from Queen Elizabeth at
Buckingham Palace in 1992 wearing no knickers.
CUTTING EDGE
Dewi Sukarno, the fiery social butterfly and former first lady of
Indonesia, stunned guests in 1991, including Elle Macpherson and Ivana
Trump, at a party in Aspen when she cut the face of her rival Minnie
Osmeña (above), a granddaughter of a former Philippine president, with a
wine glass. Reports differ as to who called whom a whore first, but
Osmeña’s injuries required 37 stitches and landed Sukarno in jail for 34
days. No parts contrite, Sukarno famously later told The New York Times,
in a Nixon-worthy locution, “In any party a glass can break.”
THROW THE BAG AT HER
Domestic goddess Martha Stewart (above) arrived at court to begin her 2004 trial
on insider-trading charges carrying an Hermès Birkin bag. Stewart was
found guilty in the court of public opinion and later in the hallowed
halls of justice.
JACK OF ALL TRADES
Dov Charney, the recidivist American Apparel founder,
anti-sweatshop activist, and purveyor of Brooklyn fashion clichés,
masturbated in front of a magazine reporter in 2004.
FAILURE TO LAUNCH
For all her misadventures, Lindsay Lohan (above, right) was never
attacked more virulently by the media than when she was appointed
creative adviser to the once venerable house of Ungaro in 2009. Working
with Estrella Arch, the designer charged with enabling her carnal
vision, Lohan took credit for an eyesore of a collection, complete
with
heart-shaped pasties, which received the sort of reviews not seen since
Herbie Fully Loaded.
CHEAP VEEP
Sarah Palin’s “hockey mom” image was sullied in 2008 when the Republican
National Committee spent $75,062 at Neiman Marcus and $49,425 at Saks
Fifth Avenue primping her for the Republican National Convention (above). And
she still managed to look like she worked in human resources!
