5 Celebrities Who Derided Dolce & Gabbana Remarks Endorsing Traditional Families

Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, Italian designers, expressed support of traditional marriage in a March 2015 interview with Panorama magazine, causing an uproar on social media.

While Dolce and Gabbana are gay and had previously been a couple, they said on the topic of in vitro fertilization, surrogate mothers, and gay adoptions that "there are things that should not be changed."

“I call children of chemistry, synthetic children. Rented wombs,” Dolce said.

Here are some comments made in disagreement and calling for a boycott of the brand:

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1. Singer Elton John, who has two children born with surrogate mothers with his husband David Furnish, started the charge.

 

How dare you refer to my beautiful children as "synthetic". And shame on you for wagging your judgemental little fingers at IVF - a miracle that has allowed legions of loving people, both straight and gay, to fulfil 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

A photo posted by Elton John (@eltonjohn) on Mar 14, 2015 at 10:29pm PDT

2. Singer Ricky Martin has twins born with a surrogate mother, and advised the designers to “wake up.”

.@dolcegabbana ur voices R 2powerfull 2B spreading so much h8 http://t.co/30Oe2hcxNt Wake up,Its 2015 Luv urselves guys #boycottdolcegabbana

— Ricky Martin (@ricky_martin) March 15, 2015

3. NBC News co-anchor Al Roker and his wife used IVF treatment to start a family in 1998 and he called out the designers as well.

In spite of what @dolcegabbana think, my beautiful IVF children are not "synthetic children". I agree with @eltonjohndotcom

— Al Roker (@alroker) March 15, 2015

4. Victoria Beckham showed her support for children born with the help of IVF.

Sending love to Elton David Zachary Elijah & all the beautiful IVF babies x vb

— Victoria Beckham (@victoriabeckham) March 16, 2015

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5. Chef Art Smith has adopted four children with his husband Jesus Salgueiro, and he tweeted a picture of his family.

#TakeTheHateOffTheRunway #BoycottDolceGabbana We are family,we are strong,we are loved@eltonjohndotcom @huffpostgay pic.twitter.com/VUjEycNo9n

— Chef Art Smith (@ChefArtSmith) March 15, 2015

Following the uproar, a statement was released in which the pair stated, “It was never our intention to judge other people’s choices. We do believe in freedom and love.”

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