Fashion moguls Domenico Dolce and Stafano Gabbana recently made headlines for bashing gay adoption and in vitro fertilization in an interview with Italian magazine Panorama, prompting Elton John to call for a boycott of all Dolce & Gabbana products. Film and television producer Ryan Murphy officially joined John’s movement on Monday, calling the designers “hypocrites” and promising not to use their clothes in any of his productions.
In the most recent edition of Panorama, Dolce said that he believes children who are born through in vitro fertilization should be considered “synthetic” from “wombs for rent.” He added that “the only family is the traditional one. Life has a natural flow, there are things that should not be changed. One is the family.”
Murphy pointed out the hypocrisy in Dolce’s statement in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter on Monday by referring to a 2006 interview with an Italian newspaper in which Gabbana said he wants his own biological child, “conceived through artificial insemination because it wouldn’t make sense for me to make love to a woman I don’t love.”
“To sell the image of the family in their ad campaigns and recent fashion shows on top of that is pure hypocrisy. There will be crickets going through Dolce & Gabbana stores soon,” promised Murphy. “Don’t use family in your advertising as a gimmick. It’s their prerogative to speak out — and it’s my prerogative not to use any of their clothes on my shows. Or buy them for myself either.”
The Glee and American Horror Story executive producer was especially surprised by the designers’ statements because the gay community has “always embraced their clothes.” He told The Hollywood Reporter that he considers IVF a scientific miracle, and added the he knows 10 women who used the method to conceive and knows three women using it right now to conceive.
“To tell them their choices as women — anyone’s choices on family — are not embraced, well, I don’t think they’ll be traipsing off to a Dolce & Gabbana store to buy clothes anytime soon.”
Victoria Beckham, Ricky Martin, Al Roker, and Courtney Love all recently expressed their outrage over Dolce & Gabbana calling IVF babies “synthetic,” helping gather additional support for Elton John’s boycott.
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