The famous Italian fashion designer Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana recently said that their famed Dolce & Gabbana label will die with them. During an interview with Italian newspaper, Gabbana said, “Once we’re dead, we’re dead. I don’t want a Japanese designer to start designing Dolce & Gabbana,”

The veteran designers launched their brand in 1985 and remain to work together despite their break up as a couple in 2004. 

“When we split up, we said to ourselves that it was better to divide up everything, because if I took a blow to the head the next day he (Dolce) would have found himself dealing with someone not involved in the industry, like for example my cousin, who could ruin the business,” Gabbana said during an interview.

Dolce added that the pair had refused “every offer to buy the brand”. “We have created a trust neither of us can touch. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not free, what do you do? You don’t go to the grave with a coffin stuffed with money,” Dolce added.

After gaining this much of fame, Gabbana admits that he “doesn’t have time” to spend their fortune. They both have built up their fashion house of sultry womenswear after decades. Gabbana said that “I’m too busy working. I don’t care about becoming richer, my goal is to be successful,” The two men said they still share an exceptional bond, apart from their break up.

“Even today, what is mine is his, and what is his is mine... our new partners know that’s how it is, whether they like it or not,” Dolce said. “If a love is born when you are young — for me it was the first experience, for him the first love story — it is pure, total,” he added. The pair will head to New York for a show of haute couture events from 6-10 April.