You constantly have to be careful not to offend anyone.”ĭiesel has sacrificed more than 85 million euros in revenue in the past year to clean up its distribution, particularly on the Internet, where too many discounted items were sold, Rosso said. “Today, I cannot be as crazy as I was before,” Rosso said. The brand has been profitable since 2013, after more than a decade under OTB (Only the Brave) ownership. Sales at Margiela now exceeded 100 million euros ($110 million), Rosso said. Rosso said he thought of hiring Galliano the minute he got sacked from Dior and from his own brand John Galliano, which is still controlled by Dior, part of the LVMH group. This week’s edition of Paris Match, the best-selling French weekly magazine, carries on its cover a photo of lawyer Amal Clooney, the media-darling wife of film star George, in a red dress designed by Galliano for Maison Margiela. It seemed an odd fit for the famously preening Galliano, but the fashion industry seems to have embraced both the British-born designer’s repentance and his new role at a house with a decidedly different profile than his own. Sources have told Reuters he is now living incognito in Paris, spending most of his time painting.
He disappeared from public life and gave up fashion after resigning in 2009. Martin Margiela did not stitch his name on his products, never took a bow after runway shows and refused to be interviewed or photographed. Galliano’s appointment raised eyebrows last year, not only because of his controversial past but also because of the contrast between his persona and that of Maison Margiela’s reclusive founder. “He is a not a designer but a couturier and has great pyramidal thinking - turning couture concepts into ready-to-wear clothing and accessories,” added the tattooed 59-year-old Italian entrepreneur. “John is a real pro, I am so happy to have him,” Rosso told Reuters at his company’s headquarters, an hour’s drive from Venice. He emerged with a job at Oscar de la Renta in New York in 2013 before Rosso tapped him last year to take over the house founded by Martin Margiela, a designer known for being as self-effacing as Galliano is flamboyant. Galliano blamed addiction to drugs and alcohol for the rant, said the remarks did not represent his real views and went through a public period of rehabilitation sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League, a charity that fights anti-Semitism. Galliano, widely hailed as one of the most talented designers of his generation, fell from grace in 2011 after a video went viral of him drunk in a Paris bar, saying “I love Hitler” and telling a couple their ancestors should have been gassed. REUTERS/Andrea Delboĭiesel founder Renzo Rosso, chairman and main shareholder of Maison Margiela’s parent OTB group, said sales were already up 20 percent at the fashion house even though only a few of Galliano’s pieces had so far reached the shelves. Diesel founder Renzo Rosso poses at his offices in Breganze, Italy, in this handout picture taken July 16, 2014.
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