What is it with these weirdly homophobic Italian gay designers? Earlier this year, of course, Stefano Gabbana (of Dolce & Gabbana) found himself in hot water when he came out against gay families. Now Giorgio Armani has come out with a nutty statement about how gay men shouldn’t “dress homosexual,” whatever the hell THAT means. “A homosexual man is a man 100 per cent,” he told The Sunday Times Magazine. “He does not need to dress homosexual.” He then went on to say “when homosexuality is exhibited to the extreme — to say, ‘Ah, you know I’m homosexual,’ — that has nothing to do with me. A man has to be a man.”
A rather obtuse thing for a fashion designer to say, don’t you think? Is he saying that it’s OK for a man to be gay, but not LOOK gay? Who thinks like that anymore?
From The Telegraph:
The designer has recently developed quite a knack for making comments that would make any PR run for the gagging tape. After her Brit Awards stage fall, while wearing one of his bespoke capes, he described Madonna as “difficult”, while in February he called US Vogue editor Anna Wintour “unprofessional” for failing to see his Milan Fashion Week show.
One wonders if he has given his press advisors the elbow recently or if he simply feels that his reported £5bn fortune gives him carte blanche to say whatever the hell is on his mind, even if it means offending a significant slice of his audience?
Twitter, of course, was in an uproar.
In the same interview, Armani went on to insult his fashion base, saying the current vogue for super-muscular male bodies is not to his taste either: “I don’t like muscle boy. Not too much gym! I like somebody healthy, somebody solid, who looks after his body but doesn’t use his muscles too much.”
Each to his own, of course, but what makes Armani’s comments so strange is that they are the antithesis of the brand image he presents to the world. Has he actually seen the ad campaigns promoting his lines of mens’ clothing, accessories and hugely popular underwear line, which have featured David Beckham, Cristiano Ronaldo, and the newly muscular Calvin Harris? Does he not see the irony in criticising muscular men, while using them to sell an astonishing amount of underwear.
The post Here We Go Again: Giorgio Armani Doesn’t Think Gay Men Should “Dress Homosexual” appeared first on World of Wonder.
