BY CARLY MALLENBAUM | GANNETT NEWS SERVICE
Elton John wrote, “I shall never wear Dolce and Gabbana ever again.”
The musician, other members of the LGBT community and people who have used In Vitro Fertilization are sharing the #BoycottDolceGabbana hashtag to express outrage over what Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana said to Panorama magazine.
As translated by The Telegraph, the pair said, “No chemical offsprings and rented uterus: life has a natural flow, there are things that should not be changed.”
Dolce also added, “You are born to a mother and a father — or at least that’s how it should be. … I call children of chemistry, synthetic children. Rented uterus, semen chosen from catalog.”
“The family is not a fad. In it there is a supernatural sense of belonging,” Gabbana said.
John had this to say about the men, who, despite being homosexuals who dated each other, have previously spoken out against same-sex marriage:
“How dare you refer to my beautiful children as ‘synthetic.’ And shame on you for wagging your judgemental [sic] little fingers at IVF — a miracle that has allowed legions of loving people, both straight and gay, to fulfill their dream of having children. Your archaic thinking is out of step with the times, just like your fashions. I shall never wear Dolce and Gabbana ever again. #BoycottDolceGabbana,” he shared on Instagram.
Gabbana said in a statement, according to AP, that “it was never our intention to judge other people’s choices.” Dolce says he was expressing his view about family based on his own experience, and that he’s aware that other types of families are just as legitimate.
