Christian Dior poppy ban

Kyt · Nov 5, 2008

Christian Dior poppy ban | The Sun |News|Campaigns|Our Boys

A SHOPGIRL working for Christian Dior was ordered to take off her poppy – because it breached a dress code.

Patriotic Billie Graham, 23, who counts three war heroes in her family, had to remove the Remembrance symbol while on duty at a perfume counter.

A manager told her to wear a Dior badge instead and confiscated the poppy, saying: “It’s a sweet gesture but it’s not really uniform policy.”

Last night Billie said: “I am very aware of Armistice Day and the sacrifices soldiers made.

“I wear a poppy every year without fail and I was disgusted at the behaviour of this Christian Dior boss. It was shockingly unpatriotic.”

Billie, a marketing student recruited through an agency, was only ten minutes into her shift when she got ticked off.

She had dressed smartly in a black suit for her day at the Dior counter in a House of Fraser store in London’s giant new Westfield shopping centre.

And she had proudly pinned on a poppy in memory of her great-great-grandad, killed in the First World War, her great-grandad who served in both world wars and her great-great-uncle, a paratrooper and SAS hero shot in Holland.

Billie, of Notting Hill, West London, said: “I was wearing the poppy on the right-hand side of my jacket and was told to pin the Dior badge on my left-hand side.

“There was no reason why I couldn’t have worn them both.

It was so insulting – they acted like I was wearing the poppy as a fashion statement.”

A spokeswoman for Christian Dior said: “We are trying to find out why this happened.

“It is a new store and we are trying to identify the individual manager concerned.”

During the Second World War, French fashion designer Dior made dresses for the wives of Nazis and countrymen who collaborated with them.

The Four Seasons agency who recruited Billie sent her a bouquet of flowers to apologise for last Saturday’s incident.
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Antipodean Andy · Nov 5, 2008

Sigh, some people just have no ability to do anything but abide by what the book says.

John · Nov 5, 2008

These sorts of things seem to be coming a daily event. Where has the respect for our fallen soldiers gone. Is it an age problem ??

spidge · Nov 6, 2008

The descriptive adjectives are whirling around in my head however I will restrain myself.

A good swift kick would suffice I think.

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