She would never stop wearing their clothes over the “synthetic” babies comment, chalking it up to a language barrier

Mar 23, 2015 11:32 GMT  ·  By

Earlier this month Dolce & Gabbana founders Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana said in an interview that, even though they were gay, they opposed gay marriage, but also IVF and surrogacy motherhood for couples who could not have babies.

Gay couples also fell in this second category, with the designer duo saying that they were raised to believe a child should have both a mother and a father, but also that children should be conceived naturally. All children conceived otherwise were “synthetic.”

The Dolce & Gabbana boycott is still underway

The comments were met with cries of outrage, but it wasn’t until singer Sir Elton John got involved that a boycott against the brand was organized. John and longtime civil partner David Furnish have 2 boys born to surrogate mothers, so the singer took the “synthetic” children remark to heart.

The same applied to Ricky Martin, who also has twin boys born to a surrogate mother. He took up John’s lead and promised he would never again wear Dolce & Gabbana or in any other way show his support for the brand.

Their example was soon followed by countless other celebrities, who called for a wider boycott on social media. In a matter of hours, people were tweeting photos of their Dolce & Gabbana products discarded in the trash can, whether clothes, perfume or other accessories.

The designer duo responded by first apologizing for causing any offense and then by calling Elton John a Nazi for punishing them for speaking their mind. If he had a right to speak for marriage equality and gay rights, they had as much right to speak against these things.

After a couple of days of going back and forth, some sort of peace was reached between the singer and the 2 designers, but the boycott is far from over. Too many people were offended by the synthetic children comment to let it go as easy as that.

Zoe Saldana says relax, have a drink

Actress Zoe Saldana was at a GLAAD gala over the weekend, where E! News caught up with her and asked her what she thought of the boycott. She found it the stupidest thing ever, she explained, and would never let that comment decide whether she should or should not wear Dolce & Gabbana clothes.

“People are allowed to their own opinion, however, I wouldn't have chosen to be so public about something that's such a personal thing,” she said. “Obviously it caused some sensitivity, but then again if you continue to follow the news, you see they all kinda hugged it out, so why are we making a big deal about it?”

The number one reason she doesn’t believe this should be made into such a huge deal is that she chalks the offensive comment up to getting lost in translation.

If she were to find offense with all the things her husband Marco Perego, who is Italian, said since they met because he did not have a good grasp of the English language, they would have never married or had children, she joked.