Paris awaits news of his replacement, which up until a week ago was expected to be disclosed after the Dior show, held Tuesday.

And it was this lightness, combined with modern street savoir faire, that lifted the Dior show above all the others.

But what was most revealing about his fall Dior show was that he turned up the lights.

Is the Christian Dior show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art still up?

The co-founder of that house, Pierre Bergé, was the first guest to arrive backstage after the Dior show.

The look met its match, though, at the Dior show, where models wore fishnet cat suits under the scanty clothes.

John Galliano is one designer who understands the big picture, even if, this season, his Dior show seemed particularly unrelated to contemporary life.

Yet, something in this collection struck a rare nerve, a joy completely absent from his sour Dior show.

It might seem that a Dior show would be a panegyric no matter who sponsored it.

Most of the American fashion set could not sense what trouble lay ahead for John Galliano at the Dior show.