1
00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,800
Hey guys, this is Mel. 
If you're listening to this, you

2
00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:07,560
are about to hear a super 
special sneak peek of our latest

3
00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:10,600
bonus episode. 
But fair warning, this is just a

4
00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:12,400
sneak peek. 
Don't hurt us. 

5
00:00:13,120 --> 00:00:15,320
It's totally optional to 
subscribe, but if you're 

6
00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:18,520
interested, you can check out 
our Patreon by searching 

7
00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:21,840
Significant Lovers Patreon 
Online. 

8
00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:33,480
Hope you enjoy. 
Thanks for joining us listeners 

9
00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:37,520
on Patreon. 
This is a bonus episode and I 

10
00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:43,720
guess I should also say Ciao and
Bongiorno because today is a 

11
00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:47,480
very Italian episode. 
We. 

12
00:00:47,480 --> 00:00:54,040
Are talking about the couple 
which is the duo behind Dolce 

13
00:00:54,040 --> 00:01:04,280
and Gabbana. 
Did you know that they are real 

14
00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:07,760
people that dated? 
No. 

15
00:01:07,960 --> 00:01:10,320
We didn't until. 
You bought me? 

16
00:01:10,320 --> 00:01:13,880
Yeah, until we played that game.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

17
00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:17,000
So I got Mel. 
I actually got one for myself. 

18
00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,240
I don't know if you know this. 
Yeah. 

19
00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:23,680
I got one for myself too. 
I but I got my oldest celebrity 

20
00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:28,120
couples matching card game that 
is so significant lovers. 

21
00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,040
It has a bunch of the couples 
that we've covered, like it has 

22
00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:35,000
Elvis and Priscilla and Kate and
William and John and Yoko, 

23
00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:39,320
probably more lots of people. 
And I actually emailed them 

24
00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:42,680
asking if they would want to 
sponsor us, but they never 

25
00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,760
answered. 
So I'm not going to say what the

26
00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:48,520
game is called. 
Because. 

27
00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:51,560
Pay for that. 
But one of the couples in this 

28
00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,320
matching game was Dolce and 
Gabbana and all of us, and we 

29
00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:56,640
were playing it were like, what?
I didn't know that they were a 

30
00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:00,440
couple, huh? 
So that really planted the seed,

31
00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:05,440
planted the seed in my mind to 
cover them someday, and now 

32
00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:07,400
we're here. 
I'm so intrigued. 

33
00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:11,440
Again, Lovers is going 
international. 

34
00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,840
OK, we've covered other 
countries before. 

35
00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:18,920
I know. 
But it is going to be very 

36
00:02:18,920 --> 00:02:21,520
Italian. 
I know nothing, absolutely 

37
00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:23,760
nothing about them. 
I thought they were like, new. 

38
00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,680
They're real people, but I 
thought they were friends or I 

39
00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:29,360
don't know, just like. 
Lovers. 

40
00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,400
That's crazy. 
Just really great friends. 

41
00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:37,160
So if you remember some, I 
didn't know that they were real 

42
00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:38,600
people. 
I don't, I mean. 

43
00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:41,920
Actually, all those fashion 
brands usually. 

44
00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:43,400
Yeah. 
Name. 

45
00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,720
Yeah, I. 
Knew like obviously like Tom 

46
00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:50,280
Ford and Ralph Lauren and 
Versace, but for some reason I 

47
00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:53,880
didn't think Donatello, wait, 
what am I talking about? 

48
00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:58,440
No, I didn't know. 
I honestly I. 

49
00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,880
Don't own any Dolce and Gabon oh
me. 

50
00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:05,920
Neither, I've never even stepped
into one of their stores if they

51
00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:07,680
have sleepers. 
You don't belong there. 

52
00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:13,200
You know, I actually went on 
their website to peruse their 

53
00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:16,760
current collection and there 
were some things that I thought 

54
00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:20,000
were really cute and I was 
thinking, oh, I want this, but 

55
00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:24,800
there are thousands of dollars. 
Dolce and Gabbana are high 

56
00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,520
fashion, but they're not like 
the highest. 

57
00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:32,080
I think that their pieces will 
typically be like, I don't know,

58
00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:35,400
3004 thousand dollars or 
something, which is a lot, I 

59
00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,920
mean, way outside my price 
range. 

60
00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:43,040
But I think some of those brands
can get up to more like 10,000, 

61
00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:45,480
you know, so. 
What do you think is like the 

62
00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:50,080
highest high fashion? 
I don't know. 

63
00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,160
I know I don't know either, like
sometimes I watch the occasional

64
00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:58,760
fashion YouTuber like Hot 
Couture or something, but I'm 

65
00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,640
really out of my death depth 
when it comes to that. 

66
00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:05,440
So well, it's Fashion Week for a
significant lovers. 

67
00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:13,920
All right, well, let's let's 
discuss the story of Domenico 

68
00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,720
Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. 
Yes, let's. 

69
00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:20,800
I just wanted to to set the 
mood, I wanted to read a little 

70
00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,840
quote from the Italian fashion 
magazine Mommy. 

71
00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:26,680
I think that's how you call it, 
how you pronounce it. 

72
00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:29,960
And I actually got a lot of 
information from this magazine. 

73
00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:35,280
But they wrote there is no Dulce
without Gabbana and vice versa. 

74
00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:40,040
A destiny written from the first
pages in his youth when Stefano 

75
00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:44,040
Gavana and Domenico Dolce meet, 
fall in love and create together

76
00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:46,920
one of the greatest made in 
Italy empires. 

77
00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:55,200
Sometimes the translation in 
this episode is a little iffy, 

78
00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:57,920
just saying. 
I noticed in that paragraph it 

79
00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:01,560
said like in his youth but it 
was about both of them. 

80
00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:06,600
Sorry I'm just being nitpicky 
but I think they meant there 

81
00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,800
you've but that's OK. 
Yeah. 

82
00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:11,640
Yeah. 
So if I had to describe this 

83
00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:15,840
couple in three words, the first
word, OK, I know this seems 

84
00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:19,800
really obvious, but the first 
word would be Italian. 

85
00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,840
I just had to say it because 
they are so proudly Italian. 

86
00:05:26,840 --> 00:05:30,640
Almost every time they're 
describing a collection or a 

87
00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,960
piece that they've designed, 
they always bring up Italy. 

88
00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:36,120
Every single time. 
Like I saw this interview where 

89
00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:40,480
Stefano Gabbana was describing a
dress and he was like, it's 

90
00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:44,920
sexy, but not overly so. 
It's sensual, it's Italian. 

91
00:05:45,280 --> 00:05:47,960
The next thing he goes on to 
describe, he's like, it's this, 

92
00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:50,720
it's that, it's Italian. 
They're just constant. 

93
00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:54,280
I think every single video I saw
with them they mentioned Italy, 

94
00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:55,480
so. 
That's sweet. 

95
00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:59,160
They're just obsessed with their
their motherland. 

96
00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:01,760
Yeah, their heritage and their 
culture. 

97
00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:06,640
Yes, yes, and I even saw, you 
know, the phone knows what 

98
00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:09,920
you're doing creepy. 
I saw on Instagram. 

99
00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:14,400
I was recommended this video of 
a couple that was doing this 

100
00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,520
thing where they were like walk 
in the door and they were 

101
00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:20,040
dressed in different designers 
clothes, like basically showing 

102
00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:24,560
the essence of different 
designers like Chloe or Ralph 

103
00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:27,040
Lauren. 
And and then when they got to 

104
00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:30,000
Dolce and Gabbana, they showed 
one of them like shaving 

105
00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,080
Parmesan onto a bowl of 
spaghetti. 

106
00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,000
And like they're acting so 
Italian. 

107
00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,600
Like, they're just, even though 
there were other Italian 

108
00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:41,080
designers in that video, like 
Versace and Armani and whatever,

109
00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,600
for some reason, theirs was the 
one that was like with the 

110
00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:47,960
spaghetti, you know, they're 
just obsessed with being 

111
00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:49,160
Italian. 
Yeah. 

112
00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:51,320
But my second word would be 
argumentative. 

113
00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:53,080
Oh. 
OK. 

114
00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,600
But my third word would be 
eternal. 

115
00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:01,600
OK, Italian. 
Argumentative. 

116
00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:03,680
Eternal. 
This is one of those couples 

117
00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:09,160
where not a lot is known during 
the 80s and 90s, yeah, but later

118
00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:11,000
on we get a lot more 
information. 

119
00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:12,960
So just kind of like, bear with 
me. 

120
00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:14,720
That's. 
The Dark Ages. 

121
00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:21,960
Yeah, yeah, I feel like it might
sound like the episode is over 

122
00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,640
really soon, but just just stay 
with me because there's going to

123
00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:29,480
be more to learn about them. 
All right? 

124
00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:32,240
I will have to stop. 
The episode right there. 

125
00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:33,440
Thank you. 
So much. 

126
00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:36,120
For listening to the teaser. 
If you want to hear the full 

127
00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:38,760
episode and many other bonus 
episodes. 

128
00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:41,400
You can. 
Find them on Patreon. 

129
00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:45,120
You can search significant 
lovers on the website or 

130
00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:48,400
download the Patreon app. 
It works a lot like regular 

131
00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:52,880
podcast listening apps and we 
have tons of other couples on 

132
00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:54,840
Patreon to listen. 
To. 

133
00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,640
So thank you so much for 
listening and supporting the 

134
00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:00,200
show, and we'll get back 
together next week.