Updates: Galliano returning to Couture!

John Galliano has been appointed the new head of Maison Martin Margiela, an announcement made Tuesday that the fashion press ate up like petits fours from the tips their delicate and painstakingly manicured fingers. Even  Kayne West tweeted . 

Margiela, one of the most revered Paris fashion houses, has been without its namesake since 2009, and Galliano is one of fashion's most beloved designers, wildly creative but cast in limbo for three years, because he is a racist asshole.

In 2011, Galliano was convicted and fined in a Paris court for making horrific anti-Semitic statements, a violation of French law. He told a group of people seated next to him in a cafe that he "loves Hitler," and that "people like you will be dead today… your mothers and fathers… would be fucking gassed." The tirade was captured on video. A week before that, during an arguements witha French couple at the same cafe, he made racist statements as well—"dirty Jewish face," "fucking Asian bastard"—for which he was initially arrested. Dior subsequently fired him as its creative director owing to his "odious statement… which totally contradicts the values which have always been defended by Christian Dior," said Chief Executive Sidney Toledano. 

Natalie Portman, a Dior spokesperson and herself Jewish, refused to be associated with him. Galliano protested that he was drunk, and said that he was sorry...  

    (Galliano's new look)