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Dolce & Gabbana co-founder tells young Sicilians to "go to work"

In an outburst not unlike his previous controversial rants, Domenico Dolce, co-founder of Italian luxury house Dolce & Gabbana, on a visit to Sicily, opined its young generations are idle and lazy. The backdrop for Mr. Dolce's rhetoric was the inauguration of a photographic exposition in Polizzi Generosa, his ancestral hometown, as well as the...

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Video: Dolce & Gabbana Apologises Over Racist Campaign in China

Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, designers and founders of Italian luxury brand Dolce & Gabbana, apologized in a short video for the recent online ad campaign that triggered a public outcry against its racist content. Source: Youtube, CGTN

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Fashion label dies with us, say Dolce and Gabbana

Italian fashion icons Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana said Thursday that their famed Dolce & Gabbana label would die with them. "Once we're dead, we're dead. I don't want a Japanese designer to start designing Dolce & Gabbana," Gabbana, 55, said in an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. The veteran fashionistas launched...

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Elton John calls for boycott of Dolce & Gabbana

Sir Elton John has called for a boycott of luxury fashion label Dolce & Gabbana after the singer was offended by the designers criticising same-sex families and labelled children born through IVF as “synthetic”. The singer took to his Instagram to share his disgust with the designers saying: "How dare you refer to my beautiful children as...

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Dolce & Gabbana lose appeal against tax evasion charges

Italian designer duo Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, who had previously been found guilty of tax evasion and were sentenced to one year and six months in prison have lost their appeal. On Wednesday an Italian appeals court upheld the former ruling of a lower court, which found the designer duo and their accountant Luciano Patellito guilty of...

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Dolce & Gabbana closes Milan boutiques as public protest

Italian fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana closed their Milan stores over the weekend to protest at being “pilloried” over their tax evasion conviction, which the duo say they will appeal. The designers, who were given 20-month jail terms, emblazed their nine boutiques in the Italian city with the words “Closed for Indignation”...

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Dolce and Gabbana found guilty of tax evasion

Italian fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have both been found guilty of tax evasion by an Italian court and sentenced to jail. The duo were both sentenced by Judge Antonella Brambilla to one year and eight months in prison, after being found guilty of failing to declare hundreds of millions of euros to the Italian tax...

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Dolce & Gabbana fined 343.4 million euros

Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce, the design duo behind Italian fashion label Dolce & Gabbana, have been issued with a 343.4 million euros fine by the Italian Tax Commission for tax evasion. The duo were sentenced on appeal to pay the fine plus interest after a lengthy court case ended last Friday ruling that the pair had failed to declare...