Dolce and Gabbana backtrack on homophobic comments: 'Maybe we chose the wrong words'

Fashion designers Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce have attempted to backtrack on remarks suggesting the pair were opposed to same-sex marriage and adoption. The designers have seen a string of bad press lately after facing tax evasion charges last year.

In a recent interview with an Italian magazine, Dolce said that children born through in vitro fertilization were "synthetic children" who were born from a "rented uterus." After Elton John heard Dolce's remarks, he called for a boycott of the designers' label.

Now, Gabbana is trying to clarify the remarks. In an interview with CNN on Wednesday, Gabbana said, "We love gay couples" and "we love gay adoption." But Dolce was less inclined to agree, apparently standing by his remarks. "I think we don't need to support or don't support," Dolce told CNN. "You think what you think."

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"I don't boycott Elton John," Dolce added.

Elton John, meanwhile, seems to have put the past behind him: Just a day after announcing the boycott, the singer was seen with a Dolce and Gabbana shopping bag.