Bella Hadid condemned luxury fashion house Dolce & Gabbana in a scathing social media post.
Responding to an Instagram video shared by French fashion commentator Lyas, real name Elias Medini, on Sunday, January 18, Hadid, 29, agreed that Dolce & Gabbana didn’t embrace an inclusive brand ethos, while adding her perspective on how the corporate is publicly perceived. “Shocked people actually support this company still, it’s embarrassing,” the model wrote within the post’s comments section. “Models/stylists/ casting, the entire rattling thing.”
Hadid, who has not walked for Dolce & Gabbana’s runway shows prior to now but has stepped out in multiple garments produced by the brand over time, expanded her thoughts in a second comment on the post. “Beeeen cancelled … years of racism, sexism, bigotry, xenophobia … how are we shocked still?” she also wrote.
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Hadid’s initial comment on the post, which saw Medini, 26, label the brand’s Men’s Fall/Winter 2026 Milan show on Saturday, January 17, “50 shades of white,” attracted greater than 40,000 likes and 260 replies within the hours that followed.
One fan wrote in response, “OMG, the QUEEN that you just are. JEOPARDIZING your incredible profession over and once more to talk the TRUTH!,” while one other added, “Yes queen, it must have been cancelled years ago.”
Dolce & Gabbana fashion show in Milan on January 17 Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images
Hadid’s comments, nevertheless, didn’t impress everyone, with some fashion industry employees noting Dolce & Gabbana’s global stature. One person commented, “For many individuals within the industry, doing the show simply means with the ability to pay rent, saying ‘no’ is a privilege.” One other social media user issued the warning, “Bella watch out.”
The model, who incorporated a Western theme into her ensembles throughout various public outings in 2025, was last seen wearing Dolce & Gabbana in October last 12 months. Stepping out in Latest York City right before her Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show appearance, Hadid wore an equestrian themed pair of trousers designed and originally released by the brand as a part of its Spring 2001 collection. (Kim Kardashian later reimagined the design as a part of her 2023 Dolce & Gabbana collaboration.)
In February 2025, Hadid also rocked heeled Dolce & Gabbana boots during an outing in West Hollywood, California. The footwear was a part of a short-lived offshoot label launched by the style house and featured large butterfly motifs.
Bella Hadid’s runway comeback is effortlessly classy. Hadid, 27, strutted down the Saint Laurent spring 2025 catwalk in a suit on Wednesday, September 24, marking her first runway show in two years. For the show, she sported an oversized double-breasted blazer featuring structured shoulders, matte black buttons and dainty pockets. Hadid styled the coat with […]
Hadid’s public comments on the brand don’t function the primary time the model has taken a jab at a outstanding fashion label. In 2019, she said at Paris’ Vogue Fashion Festival that she “never felt powerful” while modelling lingerie until she walked the Latest York Fashion Week catwalk in Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty collection the previous 12 months.
Hadid walked multiple runway shows in lingerie for Victoria’s Secret prior to her work with Savage X Fenty, one in every of which saw her joined by sister and fellow model Gigi Hadid.
Bella was also vocal about her involvement in a 2024 Adidas campaign that was widely panned for what the brand called “unintentional” referencing to the 1972 Munich Olympics. Bella said publicly after the campaign went live, “I’m shocked, I’m upset, and I’m upset in the shortage of sensitivity that went into this campaign. I might never knowingly engage with any art or work that’s linked to a horrific tragedy of any kind.”
The 1972 sporting event saw 11 Israeli athletes, a West German police officer and five terrorists killed in an attack dubbed the Munich Massacre.