Five more times Stefano Gabbana put his foot in it, from ‘synthetic children’ to ‘ugly’ Selena Gomez
- Dolce & Gabbana’s multimillion-dollar show in China was cancelled after the ‘country of s***’ comment
- He has drawn the ire of Elton John, Miley Cyrus, Zhang Ziyi and Chen Kun among others
Wednesday was supposed to be a big day for Italian brand Dolce & Gabbana. Hundreds of guests from around the world were flown to Shanghai to attend “The Great Show”, a fashion extravaganza that the brand billed a love letter to China.
Things, however, turned out quite differently after the label released a series of videos featuring a Chinese model struggling while eating Italian dishes such as cannoli and spaghetti with chopsticks, which many Chinese internet users found offensive; they were quick to voice their ire on Weibo and Chinese social media.
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Instagram account diet_prada was the first to publicly call out the brand on Western social media, causing an uproar a few hours later when it published a private conversation between brand co-founder Stefano Gabbana and an American Instagram user who accused the brand of racism.
The brand said that the designer’s account had been hacked, but this is not the first time Stefano Gabbana and his more low-key business partner Domenico Dolce found themselves in hot water due to their loose tongues.
In 2015, in an interview for an Italian newspaper, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, who are both gay, expressed their opposition to a child growing with same-sex parents and referred to children born through IVF as “synthetic”.