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John Galliano says that his time in rehab prepared him for the coronavirus crisis. The Maison Margiela designer — who went into a recovery program in 2011 after his boozy anti-Semitic rant got him ousted as creative director of Christian Dior — told Anna Wintour in a Zoom interview Wednesday he had been “overwhelmed” and …
John Galliano says that his time in rehab prepared him for the coronavirus crisis.
The Maison Margiela designer — who went into a recovery program in 2011 after his boozy anti-Semitic rant got him ousted as creative director of Christian Dior — told Anna Wintour in a Zoom interview Wednesday he had been “overwhelmed” and was having panic attacks during the pandemic.
“But I had kind of decided that I had to accept reality as it is today, in the hope that maybe what came today could be more beneficial than I expected today to be, and that has helped me change my perspective,” he said during the chat, which is part of the publication’s ongoing Zoom-based interview series, “Vogue Global Conversations: Creativity During The Crisis.”
“Taking in all these little challenges in small parcels has helped that feeling of being overwhelmed,” the 59-year-old designer noted.
Galliano added, “It’s not the first time I’ve had to isolate. l did have the good fortune to learn much of this in recovery, as you know, and that’s helped me in good stead today.”
He told the editor-in-chief, 70, that he returned to work on Monday, maintaining social distance in the studio and wearing his mask and a white coat.
He also shared the bizarre odyssey that he went through to get back to his home in Paris, after having been in Los Angeles with his partner Alexis Roche, after the outbreak hit.
The designer said that he had no interest in being under lockdown in LA, but noted they were also scared of going back to Europe — which was a hotbed of COVID-19. Instead, the pair decided to fly to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.
When their boutique hotel went under lockdown, Galliano and Roche were allowed to stay along with a skeleton staff and a few guests.
“It then started to feel like the hotel in ‘The Shining’,” he joked. He said they were offered a flight to Canada by a couple who said they would “adopt” them.
In the end, they went from Cancun on to Mexico City, before finally making it back to France.
