Anna Wintour was on a years-long quest to reclaim John Galliano’s legacy.  The British designer’s career fell apart in 2011, after antisemitic and racist comments cost him top jobs in fashion and led to a criminal conviction in France. Wintour had worked to rehabilitate his image, and finally the moment had arrived: a multimillion-dollar party in his honor and a legacy-enshrining exhibit, both held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Then Julie Menin stepped in.  Menin, the New York City Council speaker, whose mother and grandmother were Holocaust survivors, told the most influential woman in fashion that she was making…

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