Dolce&Gabbana is pleased to announce a collaboration with Humanitas University (opens in new tab), an international school in Milan dedicated to the life sciences, to help strengthen the university's important global health initiative. To demonstrate its dedication to this cause, Dolce&Gabbana has launched "Amore for Scientific Research," a campaign celebrating life and Italian beauty, featuring actress Sofia Vergara and Dolce&Gabbana's iconic "Devotion" bag The campaign was launched in April 2012. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of Devotion Collection bags will be donated to the Università degli Studi di Humanità for global health research on coronavirus issues. bags from the Devotion Collection are available for purchase on the Dolce&Gabbana website (opens in new tab).

"The whole world and our lives will never be the same again. We sincerely hope that all of this will lead to a rebirth and we want to do our part to ensure that all of us, especially future generations, will one day benefit from these fundamental scientific discoveries," Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana said in a joint statement. [Dolce & Gabbana has actively supported scientific research to combat the coronavirus since before it became a global emergency. Thanks to their donation, a specialized team led by Professor Alberto Mantovani of the Universitas Humanitas is working with virologists from the Università Vitasarte San Raffaele on an extensive research project to study the natural defense response to coronaviruses. Together, we are working toward solving this global problem."