Court Upholds Prison Sentence for Dolce & Gabanna on Tax Evasion Chares

In the end, popular opinion wasn't enough to save Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabanna, the designers behind the highly lucrative fashion label Dolce & Gabbana. Despite pleas on social media and protests from fans, an Italian appeals court has upheld the decision reached last year in a lower court which found the pair guilty of tax evasion. The original criminal charges followed a stiff 343.3 million euro ($439.70 million U.S.) fine ordered payable as restitution last spring.