Sir Elton John has called for a boycott of fashion designers Domenico Dolce (inset) and Stefano Gabbana (right, pictured with Naomi Campbell and Victoria Beckham) after they dismissed children born via IVF as 'synthetic'. The singer, who has two sons Zachary, four, and Elijah, two, with husband David Furnish (pictured together left) with the help of a surrogate and artificial insemination, has joined a campaign to snub the D&G brand after the Italians called such children 'chemical' offspring.
Posting a picture of the designers - who were a couple for 23 years - on photo sharing website Instagram yesterday, Sir Elton wrote: 'How dare you refer to my beautiful children as 'synthetic'.
'And shame on you for wagging your judgmental little fingers at IVF – a miracle that has allowed legions of loving people, both straight and gay, to fulfil their dream of having children.
'Your archaic thinking is out of step with the times, just like your fashions. I shall never wear Dolce and Gabbana ever again. #BoycottDolceGabbana.'
His comments came after Mr Dolce told Italian magazine Panorama that procreation 'should be an act of love', adding: 'You are born and you have a father and mother. At least it should be like that. That's why I'm not convinced by what I call chemical children, synthetic babies.
'They are wombs for hire, semen chosen from a catalogue. And then you have to explain to these children who their mother is.'
Asked whether he wanted to be a father, Mr Dolce said: 'I am gay. I cannot have a child. I don't believe that you can have everything in life.' Mr Gabbana added: 'The family is not a fad. It is a supernatural sense of belonging.'
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