Paris (AFP)
British designer John Galliano denounced the Brexit and populism that threaten "the moral strength of society" after a parade in Paris where he paid tribute to the heroines of the world wars.
"We are witnessing the very collapse of the moral force of society, the banalisation of democracy and the European Union," the designer launched in a podcast after Wednesday's fashion show Margiela, where he is the director. artistic.
"Is not it for peace that they fought?" He asked referring to the nurses, spies and resistance fighters he had celebrated during his parade.
He explained that he had decided to speak on the subject because he was shocked to discover that people knew "so little" about the fight against fascism.
"Wake up!", He said. "If you have a voice, it's because these people fought so you could vote, so use them, make yourself heard."
The German supermodel Leon Dame played a Nazi in this parade whose representation swung, as on a dance floor, became viral on social networks.
In a much darker tone in a podcast made public after the parade and the sound of the hymn "Abide With Me" often used in the United Kingdom during commemorative events, John Galliano explained that he was inspired by the exploits heroines from the first and second world wars, these "fabulous women who gave up everything and give hope" today.
He paid tribute to the British nurse Edith Cavell, performed in 1915. The sails and outfits of the parade echoing the uniforms. Trenches and coats-parachutes evoking the spies dropped in occupied Europe.
John Galliano was dismissed from Dior in 2012 after drunkenly uttering anti-Semitic insults against customers in a Parisian bar.
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