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Over the past decade at the helm, John Galliano—with his ultra-feminine style and provocative showmanship as tools—has invigorated the Christian Dior label to be the jewel of the Bernard Arnault’s LVMH fashion powerhouse, but after a brush with bigotry that was publicized to the point of mortification, LVMH decided that fashion’s bad boy and his anti-Semitic outbursts were a bit too much of a liability for the company name. Once on par with French legends like Paul Poiret and Jean Paul Gaultier, it is Galliano’s arrest and dismissal from his women’s fall fashion show in March that has dominated media attention. Though some personnel at LVMH vied for a second chance for the fashion heavy weight, who attributed his self-destructive faux-pas to multiple addictions for which he has recently been persuaded into treatment, Bill Gaytten, the relatively under-the-radar designer who worked with Galliano for 23 years, has been named the creative head of John Galliano’s namesake label. Though it has yet to be decided which talent will be plucked to hold the reins of Christian Dior, murmurs can be heard that Gaytten will be chosen to head this billion dollar label, as well.