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The Conflict at the Heart of the Galliano Documentary
“High & Low: John Galliano” captures one of the fashion world’s greatest talents, while raising troubling industrywide issues that go beyond one man’s story.
By Rhonda Garelick
Rhonda Garelick
Rhonda Garelick writes the Face Forward column for The New York Times’s Style section. She is the D.E. Hughes Jr. Distinguished Chair for English and Professor of Journalism by courtesy at Southern Methodist University. She is the author of three books, including “Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History,” and is currently writing a book on fashion and politics.
Her writing has also appeared in New York Magazine’s “The Cut;” The Washington Post; The Wall St. Journal; The Los Angeles Times; Vanity Fair, and other venues. Ms. Garelick received her PhD and BA from Yale University and is a Guggenheim fellow.
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