Last night.
Irish fashion designer Paul Costelloe and LGBT campaigner Barrie Drewitt-Barlow weigh into the Dolce & Gabanna controversy on BBC2’s Newsnight.
FIGHT!
Meanwhile…
Tomorrow’s Irish Sun
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Judith Goldberger writes:
Saw this feature in the SAS inflight mag, Scandinavian Traveller, en route to Oslo….(close up on the right) Independent House? Beep Beep.
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So Costelloe’s argument basically boils down to: “But… but Italian families… bunch of primadonnas having fun… Muslim schoolgirls going to Syria.”
I may be being a little generous to him here but I get the impression he realised somewhere during that interview that he was defending the indefensible but didn’t want to back down. Either that or he’s actually an idiot.
Why do we even need to have this discussion? Everyone knows its a stupid thing to say.
Plus one
Trolling queens be trolling
It should be enough to say “What the hell did you just say you idiot” and leave them to have a little think about not being so dumb in the future
Yikes. There doesn’t appear to have been a need for anyone to have handed Costelloe a shovel – he is own large-scale excavator. Car-crash gibberish making Terence Flanagan’s recent Renua radio interview appear flawless and polished.
Don’t you just know that Costelloe walked off set smirking and thinking to himself, “well, that went well”…
Paul Costelloe is a designer? That tat at Dunnes Stores has been “designed”? As opposed to the rest of the tat at Dunnes Stores which hasn’t been designed. But, way to go BBC Newsnight. Two Italian designers weigh in on the SSM debate, and Newsnight procures another, ehem, designer to contribute to the debate.
Tonight on Newsnight, Beyonce will be interviewed about her views on the Ukrainian crisis. Apparently Rihanna is rooting for Putin.
A very succesful designer, one of irelands most succesful.
Costelloe is just doing what all designers did – lending their name to cheaper produce for a high street store.John Rocha did it with the Waterford crystal. It’s called making money.
+ Pierre Cardin
Ah Paul Costelloe for Dunnes, expensive shirts for extremely overweight men.
Have you seen the price of them? A wallet for 40 quid. 2 pairs of jocks 30 quid. its Dunnes f.f s. not d &g
+1
Comedy duo.. Asshat and Costello
Rags to bitches
Boom, boom! :)
guess i’ll be boycotting costello’s stuff in dunnes…oh wait, i don’t buy his overpriced tat anyway!!!!
Gays just wanna have fun.
He makes clothes, but he doesn’t make cool/expensive clothes, so he’s not cool and neither are his opinions, Dolce and Gabana also make cool/expensive clothes, they look decent in the pictures on the internet. They said some mean things that offended some cool/rich people, who said they would no longer spend their stupidly vulgar economic surplus on a particular brand of over-priced skin drapery. Clearly the mean things they said were mean, though people say and do mean things about and to other people’s children all the time, ‘synthetic’ is a kind of abstract concept, it implies not real or legitimate, but it’s totally subjective in nature dependent on your agreeing or not with someone else’s worldview which has been formed through an experience independent from your own, placing different weight on certain cultural traditions and norms. It’s not even an argument, you think certain babies aren’t ‘real’? Fine pick them out from a line up then, you don’t even have to go through with such a silly display to know it’s obviously a bogus, stupid and repulsive argument (wish someone had done that with Michael McDowell circa the citizenship referendum, would have made it very clear what the referendum was about).
Besides, it’s furking fashion the whole industry is built on the principle of fetishising social class, every single item of clothing where a premium is paid for non-practical benefits amounts to a passive aggressive way of saying “furk you” to everyone around you, so a bunch of obnoxious famous rich twats de-toyifying their golden-wheeled prams because they felt that the obnoxious famous rich twat peddlers of a particular brand of passive aggressive “furk you” skin covering said “furk you” to them, it’s a spectacularly silly fuss over nothing…
…and this was on NEWSNIGHT?
Jesus Christ.
love it ! ….well said as usual SOMK
He basically says it’s not ok to be homophobic in the UK
but it’s ok to be homophobic in Italy.
I guess it’s ok in Ireland and Uganda too.
Flamboyant gay man makes hysterical comment which results in another flamboyant gay man making equally hysterical comment. Spat results in 3rd flamboyant gay man being bitchy to straight man wondering why hes there.
That comment says a lot about your mindset.
I agree with nearly everything costelloe says, certainly his opening remarks which were entirely reasonable. Mr Millitant however hopped on them with ‘DEAL WITH IT BITCH’.
I have no opinion on either Mr Dolce or Mr Gabanna and I also think Elton John is a bit of a twit
That probably reveals my deepseated homophobia too.
Costello is right. I’m paraphrasing but two sets of very rich queens bitching at each other. If you take it any more seriously than that more fool you. Great marketing for his own brand of course because most watching would the ask “Paul Who?”
Fashion fupps are fupping fupps
Oh and as for Elton John. A man who took half his life to even come out then hires a woman’s womb… TWICE! What does she feel about HER children? Is she even allowed to speak about it?
This has nothing to do with LGBT rights, nothing at all.
I am gay btw.