Dolce&Gabbana seeks $600 million damages from 2 US bloggers

A Dolce&Gabbana store

The Milan fashion house Dolce&Gabbana has filed a defamation suit in an Italian court seeking over $600 million in damages from two US fashion bloggers who reposted anti-Asian comments attributed to one of the designers that led to a boycott by Asian consumers.

The suit was filed in Milan civil court in 2019 but only became public this week when the bloggers posted about it on their Instagram account, Diet Prada. Their feed is widely followed in the fashion world for its cutting commentary on unoriginality in designs and on social issues.

"This whole case is a way of trying to silence Diet Prada, and to silence Tony (Liu) and Lindsay (Schuyler) personally," said Susan Scafidi, director of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law School, which is helping the bloggers. Lawyers for Dolce&Gabbana reached by the AP declined to comment on the case.

In November 2018, Dolce&Gabbana faced a boycott in Asia after outrage over what were seen as culturally insensitive videos promoting a major runway show in Shanghai and subsequent posts of insulting comments in a private Instagram chat. The show was cancelled in the backlash.

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