Which ingredient is common to Kiss of Death and Perfect John cocktails? Galliano. Did too many such libations inform the Italian liqueur’s namesake’s pro-Hitler rant in a Parisian bar? Where next for the ex-Dior Wunderkind? A stretch at Sarko's pleasure in La Bastille? Hezbollah Fashion Week? Given the Führer’s track record, a self-employed Galliano can forget commissions for glitzy bar mitzvah gear, his‘n’his civil ceremony suits or big fat gypsy wedding dresses. Will he submit his CV to Chanel? Kaiser Karl’s record is without blemish but Coco’s wartime dalliances were reportedly way dodgier than John’s corrosive utterances. Ill-advised drunken braggadocio, one imagines, rather than in vino veritas. Either way, the seam queen has stitched himself up spectacularly.
