John Galliano, the controversial fashion designer who joined Maison Margiela in 2014 after being fired from Dior and his own design house, is stepping down.

Fashion brand Maison Margiela has parted ways with its artistic director John Galliano after ten years, its parent company OTB said on Wednesday, without giving any reason for the decision. OTB founder Renzo Rosso hired the ex-Christian Dior designer in 2014 after he was sacked in 2011 by Dior owner LVMH over a video showing him making anti-Semitic comments in a Paris bar.

British designer John Galliano, who left fashion in disgrace in 2011 after making antisemitic comments, is leaving his role at Maison Margiela.

The Paris-based fashion house, Maison Margiela, has announced that British designer John Galliano is leaving the company after 10 years as artistic director.

It was all part of Maison Margiela’s latest artisanal collection, the house’s answer to couture, and it felt like a time capsule into fashion’s ’80s and ’90s days of theatrical shows and boundless imagination.