Controversial fashion designer John Galliano announced on Monday that an exhibition honouring his work that New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art had scheduled to open for the upcoming spring’s Met Gala is not going to go forward.The museum’s decision to honour Galliano, who was convicted of a hate crime by a French court in 2011 after a series of racist and anti-Semitic remarks, had drawn controversy and backlash.“After much reflection and discussion with all those involved, I have decided, with great sadness, that it is best for the exhibition not to take place at this time,” Galliano wrote in a...
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