Just days after designers Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce called children born through IVF 'synthetic,' Dolce & Gabbana have come under fire again, this time for an ad that depicts the gang rape of a woman. Critics of the brand have publicized the brand's highly controversial Spring/Summer 2007 campaign ad that showed a woman being restrained by a bare-chested man as a group of men in various states of undress look on.
The advertisement was banned from being used in Italian publications after it ran several times when it was determined that it 'offended the dignity of the woman,' and pulled in the United States after running just once in an issue of Esquire.
When the ad was first pulled in Spain, the design duo referred to the people of that country as 'a bit backward.'
The duo also depicted a group sex scene featuring all men in another ad that was slightly more graphic, though the man, unlike the woman, was not being restrained.
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