Elton John has called for a boycott of Dolce & Gabbana after the designers made what he called "archaic" comments on in vitro fertilisation and same-sex parents.
In an interview with Italian news magazine Panorama, the designers called children born of IVF "synthetic" and said they opposed adoption by same-sex parents.
The musician, who has two children with his husband born through IVF, criticised the designers for "wagging your judgemental little fingers" at the fertilisation method.
Fashion designer Stefano Gabbana has since responded, saying that "it was never our intention to judge other people's choices."
I personally feel that the comments made by both Dominico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were highly disrespectful and distasteful to which they have offended many people. IVF offers many people the opportunity to start a family, that they may be genetically unable to, so for the designers to make sarcastic comments regarding the matter in order to try and get a 'laugh' from it, is extremely disrespectful and I feel that more needs to be done to solve the situation than a pathetic statement over twitter apologizing on Stefano Gabbanas half.
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