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Q: British fashion designer John Galliano has apologized for behavior that led to his firing from the Dior fashion house. 
  
 He says that he completely denies the claims made against him, and that he has fully cooperated with the police investigation. 
  
 But he said Wednesday in a statement released by his lawyers that he accepts "that the accusations made against me have greatly shocked and upset people." 
  
 He says he "unreservedly" apologized. 
  
 THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below. 
  
 PARIS (AP) _ There was only one question on everyone's lips Wednesday at Paris Fashion Week: Who will replace star designer John Galliano at Dior? 
  
 Theories abound, with everyone who's anyone making their predictions after Galliano was sacked Tuesday over anti-Semitic comments. 
  
 Many fashion critics, editors and stylists put their money on Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci, whose dark, S&M-steeped creations for Givenchy have won him a rabidly devoted fan base. 
  
 Naysayers, though, note that Tisci has done little to boost sales at Givenchy, which is also owned by Dior parent company LVMH Moet Hennessy, and suggest that Dior, as the group's moneymaking locomotive, might be looking for someone with a more proven sales record. 
  
 Alber Elbaz would fit that profile. 
  
 The Moroccan-born Israeli has transformed Lanvin from a musty old Paris label to one of fashion's hottest properties. Rumors have long swirled that he would be a shoo-in to replace Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel once the 77-year-old uber-designer retires, but Elbaz has always insisted he's happy where he is. 
  
 "In a perfect world, it would be Alber" tapped to replace Galliano, said Dana Thomas, a veteran fashion critic and author of "Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Luster." 
  
 "But I suspect he's not interested," she said. "It will be a hard search, a hard shoe to fit." 
  
 Other potential candidates include Oliver Theyskens, who's been working for New York-based commercial house Theory after being dismissed from Nina Ricci, and Yves Saint Laurent's Italian-born designer Stefano Pilati. 
  
 Galliano's downfall began last Thursday, when he was detained in Paris after a couple accused him of making anti-Semitic insults in a cafe. Investigators are studying witness testimony and Galliano's denials before determining whether to pursue the case. 
  
 More problematic for the designer was a video that surfaced Monday in which he praises Hitler in an apparent drunken tirade. Dior announced Tuesday it was firing him. 
  
 It's thrown Dior into such flux that it was not immediately clear when it would announce any new appointment. 
  
 Dior says it plans to show its fall-winter 2011-2012 collection as scheduled Friday. A Dior official told The Associated Press on Wednesday the house is focusing on preparing for the show and would not comment on discussions of a replacement for Galliano. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of company policy. 
  
 The fate of Galliano's signature line's presentation, slated for Sunday, remained a question mark on Wednesday. Galliano is also owned by LVMH. 
  
 Many fashion insiders suspect Dior has already made a decision on a successor. 
  
 "These are not the kind of decisions that happen overnight," said Maria Louisa Poumaillou, who owns a cutting-edge Paris boutique. "They've certainly had a contingency plan for a long time. The stakes are simply too high not to." 
  
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 Angela Charlton in Paris contributed to this report. ||||| Patricia Field went all out today defending John Galliano by sending an email blast to 500 friends, blogs and media. 
  
 In a phone interview this afternoon, Field described Galliano’s controversial videotaped behavior as “farce” and said she was bewildered that people in the fashion community have not recognized it as such. 
  
 “People in fashion all they do is go and see John Galliano theater every season. That’s what he gives them. To me, this was the same except it wasn’t in a theater or in a movie,” she said. “John lives in theater. It’s theater. It’s farce. But people in fashion don’t recognize the farce in it. All of a sudden they don’t know him. But it’s OK when it’s Mel Brooks’ ‘The Producers’ singing Springtime for Hitler.” 
  
 Field said Galliano was “acting out a character.” She said she can not understand how people who come to his shows and are entertained by him season after season don’t recognize that the recent incidents were another form of theater. 
  
 “They don’t even see the farce in it. Fashion people who know him have not come forward. They know his theater,” she said. “Believe me — my name is Field — my stepfather was Jewish.” Fields said she left a voice mail for Galliano but has yet to speak with him. 
  
 She said she felt she had to blast as many people as knows to tell them who Galliano is especially if they don’t know him. Her message, which was entitled “IN PRAISE OF JOHN GALLIANO,” is also posted on Facebook. It reads “Beauty, intelligence and energy would describe John as I know him. Where in this trilogy could one find hate? I ask you! My second question is…What exactly did he say? And the third is…What is really going on here??” ||||| Focused crawls are collections of frequently-updated webcrawl data from narrow (as opposed to broad or wide) web crawls, often focused on a single domain or subdomain. ||||| Giorgio Armani 'sorry for' Galliano 
  
 Backstage at Milan Fashion Week, Giorgio Armani talks to The Telegraph about the modern-day pressures on designers and that he's sorry to hear the recent Galliano news. 
  
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 Speaking through a translator, the Italian fashion designer said he was sorry that John Galliano had been video taped without his knowledge and added that it was obviously a difficult time for him. 
  
 Galliano, 50, was in the French capital's Marais district - the traditional home of the city's Jewish community - on Thursday evening, and is believed to have been drinking at café La Perle when he launched the alleged attack on Geraldine Bloch, 35, and Philippe Virgiti, 41. 
  
 Galliano's lawyer Stéphane Zerbib on Saturday that the Christian Dior designer has filed a claim of defamation and injury against the couple after visiting police at midnight on Friday to state on the record that he never made any anti-Semitic or racist comments. 
  
 Zerbib also said Galliano is "shocked" that Dior - citing a zero-tolerance policy on racism and anti-Semitism - suspended him from his job functions pending the outcome of the police investigation. ||||| The designer, who was fired from Christian Dior, will now stand trial for his anti-Semitic slurs, the Paris public prosecutor’s office announced Wednesday. Earlier today, the designer spoke out for the first time to issue a public apology. He has also asserted the grounds for a defamation case, saying he was the subject of an “unprovoked assault.” Galliano has reportedly been persuaded by Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell to check into The Meadows Rehab Center in Arizona immediately. Karl Lagerfeld, meanwhile, condemned Galliano on Wednesday, saying "I am furious." But a question remains: what’s next for Dior? Isabel Wilkinson reports. 
  
 John Galliano, who was fired from Christian Dior on Tuesday after a video of him making drunken anti-Semitic remarks surfaced online, reportedly will check into rehab immediately. He has been persuaded by his friends Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss to seek help—and is probably bound for The Meadows, a rehab center in Wickenberg, Arizona where Elton John and Donatella Versace have been treated, Suzy Menkes reported Wednesday. To fight his case, the designer also has reportedly retained the lawyer who represented Moss when she was accused of cocaine use in 2005. On Wednesday the Paris public prosecutor’s office announced that Galliano will go on trial over his insults, which are illegal in France. 
  
 On Wednesday morning, Galliano spoke out for the first time, releasing an official apology: “Anti-semitism and racism have no part in our society. I unreservedly apologise for my behaviour in causing any offence." He also outlined the foundation for a defamation case: “A number of independent witnesses have given evidence and have told the police that I was subjected to verbal harassment and an unprovoked assault when an individual tried to hit me with a chair having taken violent exception to my look and my clothing. For these reasons I have commenced proceedings for defamation and the threats made against me.” 
  
 But as the news settles, many in the fashion community are trying to make sense of what this means for Galliano’s career—and for the future of Dior. Karl Lagerfeld is the most recent to speak out, telling WWD on Wednesday: “"I'm furious that it could happen… It's a horrible image for fashion, because they think that every designer and everything in fashion is like this. This is what makes me crazy in that story." A more immediate question is what will happen in the coming days. Dior is still expected to show at Paris Fashion Week on Friday at the Musee Rodin—and the design team is reportedly in a panic over how to finish the collection without their leader. And the presentation of Galliano’s eponymous label is still scheduled to take place at an undisclosed location on Sunday. While it is unclear whether Galliano will appear on Sunday, spokespeople maintained that the shows will go on—and continued to confirm seating assignments on Tuesday. 
  
 But a larger question looms: Who will replace Galliano? Widely credited with reviving Dior, the designer leaves some big shoes to fill. There is speculation that his successor will be selected from within LVMH, Dior’s luxury parent company. Names circulated include Givenchy creative director Riccardo Tisci, Celine designer Phoebe Philo, and even Louis Vuitton creative director Marc Jacobs, who checked into rehab himself in 2007. Outside LVMH, it is speculated that Lanvin designer Alber Elbaz is also in the running. A bookie, meanwhile, has already placed her bets on Galliano’s replacement, putting Yves Saint Laurent’s Stefano Pilati at 11/8, former YSL designer Hedi Slimane at 9/4, and Kris Van Assche, Dior Homme’s creative director, at 4/1. At this point, it’s anybody’s guess. 
  
 Galliano’s alleged anti-Semitic remarks at a bar in Paris on Thursday night were met with a mixture of shock, disgust, and sympathy. Then came the release Monday of a video of a separate drunken incident, at the same bar, by the website of the British tabloid The Sun. The clip shows Galliano hurling slurs at a neighboring table’s occupants, who laugh and egg him on. “I love Hitler,” he says. “People like you would be dead…Your mothers, your forefathers…would all be fucking gassed.” Natalie Portman, the face of Christian Dior’s perfume Miss Cherie, was quick to condemn the video. “I am deeply shocked and disgusted,” she said. “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.” 
  
 “It’s very common in France,” said Joan Juliet Buck. “But it’s the last thing you’d expect from a wild, English bohemian from Gibraltar. He represented the opposite of the values that are expressed in anti-Semitism.” 
  
 Galliano constantly pushed the envelope at Dior. After taking the helm there in 1996, he transformed the company from an outdated label into a sought-after global brand. Soon, he introduced silhouettes that conformed to the body, spaghetti straps, and dresses that looked like lingerie. (The first dress Galliano designed for Dior was a sexy lingerie dress for Princess Diana that she wore to Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1996.) He famously told The New Yorker’s Michael Specter in 2003: “My goal is really very simple: When a man looks at a woman wearing one of my dresses, I would like him basically to be saying to himself, ‘I have to fuck her.’… I just think every woman deserves to be desired. Is that really asking too much?” 
  
 Gallery: Galliano's Runway Goodbyes 
  
 While many in the fashion industry were quick to condemn Galliano’s actions, others expressed shock that the designer could have uttered such remarks. “When I, an American Jew, edited Vogue in Paris, I heard anti-Semitic remarks,” Joan Juliet Buck, former editor of French Vogue, told The Daily Beast. “It’s very common in France. But it’s the last thing you’d expect from a wild, English bohemian from Gibraltar. He represented the opposite of the values that are expressed in anti-Semitism.” But The Guardian’s Linda Grant writes that his remarks aren’t necessarily surprising for a designer who trades on shock value. “If you are breaker of taboos, then anti-Semitism is only another taboo, no different from any other,” she writes. “It has become the last frontier for those demanding freedom of speech, for whom everything, even the Holocaust, is fair game… Fashion’s obsession with transgression, its demand that Galliano shock us even more each season, has played its own part in the drunken bar rant.” Likewise, designer Patricia Field told WWD: “John lives in theater… It’s farce. But people in fashion don’t recognize the farce in it. All of a sudden they don’t know him. But it’s OK when it’s Mel Brooks’ The Producers singing ‘Springtime for Hitler.’” |||||
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Friends tell the New York Times that former Dior designer John Galliano is entering rehab after news of his apparently drunk, anti-Semitic rants emerged. Galliano, while still denying the claims against him, says he understands "that the accusations made against me have greatly shocked and upset people" and that he "unreservedly" apologizes, the AP reports. Meanwhile, some of his colleagues are coming out of the woodwork to support him: Sex and the City stylist Patricia Field posted a note titled "In Praise of John Galliano" on her blog, and sent it out to 500 friends, media outlets, and other blogs. She tells Women's Wear Daily Galliano was "acting out a character": "John lives in theater. It’s theater. It’s farce. But people in fashion don’t recognize the farce in it. All of a sudden they don’t know him. But it’s OK when it’s Mel Brooks’ The Producers singing 'Springtime for Hitler.'” Fellow designer Giorgio Armani tells the Telegraph he feels "very, very sorry" for Galliano, because "it's obviously a difficult time for him. I'm also very sorry that they videotaped him without him knowing." Italian Vogue editor Franca Sozzani says that while she condemns racism, she is "disgusted by these people who saw what state John was in and took advantage of the situation by trading on his name and notoriety. It’s obvious that this was a bit inauthentic in the sense that if you are truly fighting with someone, you don’t have time to pick up a mobile phone, turn on the video GIGGLING and mockingly film what he is saying.” What does this mean for Galliano's future—and for Dior's? Click for the Daily Beast's roundup on those questions.