Hello everybody, my name is Luke Meagher and this is Haute Le Mode.
And today on Haute Le Mode we are talking about Dolce & Gabbana being racist for, like the seventeenth time this year.
This time they really, like, did it, but if anybody, like, didn't see this coming... get your eyes checked.
So I do apologize about how I look, what I'm wearing. I wasn't expecting this whole escapade to happen.
Because I shampooed my hair, I conditioned my hair so it doesn't look good today
I don't have any clothes to wear. I'm wearing my dad's Mao Zedong jacket in cashmere. It's nice, I do appreciate it.
So for my appearance, I apologize. But this is a real - this is a real out-of-nowhere video that I'm now filming.
But, we're gonna be talking about Dolce & Gabbana - they're racist, if you didn't know.
Essentially, Dolce & Gabbana has had a very problematic past
where they've been homophobic, racist, misogynistic, all these awful things.
If you guys want to watch the video where I explain some of Dolce & Gabbana's recent transgressions against everybody
you can click on this thing - the thing, you know the 'i.' Whatever.
So you should probably watch that before you watch this video because it gives you a full background
as to why Dolce & Gabbana is just trash in general.
We love to sah le chah (sp), which essentially means 'spill the tea' in Chinese.
Doesn't make any grammatical sense but I'm here to educate the children, ya know. We gotta sah le chah (sp).
Essentially, the story starts out with Dolce & Gabbana wanting to advertise their Alta Moda show in Shanghai.
Now, Alta Moda is Dolce & Gabbana's version of haute couture.
They don't play to the industry's schedule so they show their collections whenever they want.
They don't care; they're not owned by any big conglomerates so they do whatever they feel.
So, often, Dolce & Gabbana goes on the road to show these collections.
They'll come to the US; they'll go all throughout Europe; they'll go to Asia.
So Dolce & Gabbana is showing in Shanghai, China.
So to prepare and to promote this event, Dolce & Gabbana decided they would put out some advertisements.
And these advertisements essentially were a Chinese model being interviewed about eating Italian food, at least that's what I could understand from it.
Because it was spoken in Mandarin and it was also subtitled in Mandarin.
I am in my second semester of Chinese. I'm not, like, perfect at Chinese - far from it - so I couldn't exactly understand a majority of what was being said.
I could make out a few characters but that was about it.
Now, when I watched the ads I essentially was, like, 'OK, this is, like, Dolce & Gabbana relying on stereotypes to promote their products.'
Which, ya know, for anybody else I'd be like, 'That's awful. How dare they? This is disgusting.'
But it's Dolce & Gabbana and, I mean, you can only say, 'you're racist assholes' so many times.
Like, I originally was like, 'OK, like, ya know, those are the ads, that's what they're doing. It's gross, we know that though.'
That's it. And I prefer to ignore Dolce & Gabbana when I can to not give them the airtime that they want so badly.
Well, other people were very upset about the ads, obviously.
So they started to post them on their Instagram stories and they 'at'-ed Dolce & Gabbana's account.
They 'at'-ed Stefano Gabbana, who is the real fire cracker of the brand and not a fun fire cracker - a scary fire cracker.
But, people were at-ing them in their DMs. Well, you know Stefano Gabbana.
That bitch is here to come through in the DMs and let you know what's going on.
So Stefano started to go back, started attacking these people in the DM's.
So people started to send them to diet_prada, which is the account that really sparked the whole Dolce & Gabbana Instagram, social media experience
that we currently have.
So diet_prada posted these DM's. And essentially they're from the verified account of Stefano Gabbana and it says
(Reading Instagram DMs)
That's just the first slide.
(Reading Instagram DMs)
The person responded
(Reading Instagram DMs)
Stefano responded
(Reading Instagram DMs)
Stefano continued
(Reading Instagram DMs)
So that's where we're at with this whole Dolce & Gabbana thing.
So diet_prada put it out into the airwaves; they 'at'-ed Dolce & Gabbana; they said 'this is who this is coming from.'
And people kind of went crazy.
Diet_prada is a really really big account with people that are both in and out of China.
Now, for some of you that may not know: China doesn't really use social media the way that we do.
We use Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, all of these different apps.
China has multiple apps - there's WeChat, Weibo, and all of these other different social media apps.
But they essentially wrap Facebook, and Uber, and Venmo, and all of these different apps all into one big app.
And they're extremely popular and that's kind of where the majority of Chinese people get their social media news and find information and share posts.
I believe that somebody that has access to western social media found the posts and reposted them on WeChat or Weibo.
And, in China, the post popped off.
Now, let me just say that if you're posting shit saying that the country that you are trying to get into the wallet of
eats dogs, which is a racist and inaccurate stereotype, they're probably not gonna be very happy
and they're definitely not gonna buy your stuff. Ever.
And, from what I understand of Chinese culture - I mean, I don't know a whole lot, but when Chinese people don't fuck with you they don't fuck with you.
So.
Stefano
(Speaking Chinese dialect)
That's all the Chinese curse words I know.
Let's continue to bah-gwa (sp) - for those of you who don't know, I speak a little bit of Mandarin.
So after these big posts on WeChat and Weibo got literally everywhere, a lot of the celebrities started to drop out of this Dolce & Gabbana show.
They were, like, 'Bye bitch, we're out.'
As they should be.
And then, essentially, a lot of the magazine editors and popular social media stars in China started to drop out
and essentially get this Dolce & Gabbana show in Shanghai cancelled.
Essentially, a hundred and twenty models from multiple Chinese modeling agencies were, like, 'Zàijiàn.'
So Stefano responded that both Dolce & Gabbana's actual instagram account had been hacked
And his own personal instagram account had been hacked.
Here's the thing: maybe if this was out of the blue and we'd never heard anything from Stefano Gabbana on social media
he could say, 'Ok, like, we should investigate.'
But considering he's called Selena Gomez ugly, he said awful things about gay parents, he's just awful all around on social media for literally no reason
this is not, like a shocking thing.
And then the Chinese government was all, like, 'Ok, so now we're gonna really put the kibosh on this experience.'
So, China as a whole was, like, 'Zàijiàn' and essentially cancelled the show
Apparently Stefano and Domenico were up with the police. A lot of the workers that were actually working on the show from Dolce & Gabbana were having their
temporary work visas redacted and all of these different things.
So Dolce & Gabbana as a whole is just not having the best time. But their founder has brought it upon himself.
Now we're hearing rumors that apparently Stefano's going to be dropped from the label because this has gone too far.
Has everything prior to this not gone too far? Like, it's just - it's such bullshit.
And now here in the western social media world, we're having fashion magazines who take great amounts of money from
Dolce & Gabbana for advertising not explicitly calling the brand out for being racist.
So, honestly, it's a really shitty situation and I'm personally hoping that Dolce & Gabbana kind of just shutters.
The brand is no longer necessary; it's not needed. It's a multi-billion dollar company that does not really produced anything besides
nice dresses for multiple sizes of women, which, we can change that - we can have other brands do that.
and other brands do that now so it's just not terribly necessary.
And I really do think that there are a lot of other brands that do really great work.
And that money can be spread around to people that aren't racist, ignorant, fucking assholes.
So that's my thoughts.
Yeah, it's just not really that shocking. It's just shitty that, like, people have to endure this for Dolce & Gabbana to really be shown as the racist assholes that they are.
I don't think any of the things that are being said to people and the things being said about a whole country's people should have to happen
for us to be able to say, 'Yeah, they're trash. We need to stop recognizing them as a brand.
And stop recognizing them as something that we should be giving our money to.'
You know, I just think it's shitty and shouldn't be happening.
But hopefully this is the last that we hear from Dolce & Gabbana. I'm crossing my fingers.
But, I'm not sure. It really depends on what happens with the big magazines.
It really depends on what happens with Dolce & Gabbana as a whole, if they're actually gonna fire Stefano.
It's really a very complicated situation and obviously there is a lot of updating to be done on the story.
So, I mean, in reality I would keep up-to-date with diet_prada on the story. They've really taken the reins on it.
They are the ones that have just kind of, like, hit it out of the park. And really exposed Dolce & Gabbana for being the racist assholes that they are.
Thank you guys so much for watching, I hope you enjoyed.
Please let me know what you guys think about this whole racist Dolce & Gabbana thing in the comments below.
I want to read your comments - let's discuss, let's talk about it, let's talk about eastern/western perspectives.
Like, there's a lot in this situation that we can get out of it and learn from.
So thank you guys so much for watching. I will see you guys in the next video and TTYL.