Last weekend, National type Olivia, 32, and Christian McCaffrey tied the knot at a chapel wearing a traditional Dolce & Gabbana dress, and her outfit immediately became a talking point.
Olivia was openly critical of her comments about the dress in a subsequent Magazine interview by a style influencer, which sparked a heated online debate.
TikToker Kennedy Bingham, who goes by Gown Eyed Girl, took issue with Olivia saying she didn’t want her dress to ‘exude sex’, claiming there was ‘internalized misogyny’ in the swimsuit model’s reasoning.
Olivia told she ‘didn’t want it to exude sex in any way, shape, or form’ on her big day.
‘When I think about Christian and what he loves and the moments that he thinks that I’m most lovely, it’s totally in something like this: elegant, covered, and beautiful,’ she said in an appointment with the magazine.
Australian podcasters and waded into the debate this week during a lively discussion about Kennedy’s feedback.
While Brittany defended Olivia and claimed that her statements were taken “out of context,” Laura questioned the model’s claim that her father believes her to be most “lovely” when wearing “included” clothing.
The couple claimed that her censure on Life Uncut was more due to her comments about the dress than the fact that she chose a more traditional look.
Laura suggested that people were outraged because they might have taken Olivia’s rates as an indication that wives who opt for more revealing clothes aren’t “taking their marriages significantly.”
Olivia taking her marriage significantly and wanting a dress that reflects that is what folks are up in arms about, she claimed.
I suppose what this means is that someone doesn’t take their marriage seriously if they dress in a more provocative way.
Olivia’s claim that Christian prefers how she looks in “included” attire was also raised by Laura as she questioned whether there was a problem with “internalized misogyny.”
You’re claiming that your partner likes you the most and thinks you look the most attractive when you’re totally covered, which is an exciting way to look at anyone who works as a swimsuit model, according to her.
‘But, you met her as a dress design but now she is your family, you want her to be covered. There is this desire or thought that you can be one approach, but finally when you’re a family you should be more ladylike, more covered.’
‘I think maybe this has got a bit of the Madonna-w**re complex, this idea that you could have sex with someone you’re just casually seeing, passionate full-on sex with them, but you wouldn’t have sex with your wife that way,’ she added.
But her best pal and co-host Brittany strongly disagreed, arguing Olivia’s remarks were taken out of context.
‘I think it’s been taken out of context, I don’t agree with that statement at all,’ she said, insisting Olivia had simply worded her comments in ‘the wrong way’.
‘He fell in love with her, like you said, as a dress design, he loves her as a dress design, he loves her precisely how she is, with everything that she wears.’
‘I do have a problem with the word “covered”, but I think that has been taken out of context,’ she added.
Every single person these has an opinion on a particular way their partner clothes that they really enjoy, she insisted.
‘For them, a very religious couple, on their wedding day, in a church, in front of their friends, she chose to wear a covered dress and I don’t think she deserves the hate she’s getting.’
Brittany then criticized social media users for their initial criticism of the dress and slammed the virtual outcry.
‘I think this whole thing is absolutely ridiculous,’ she said of the big conversation.
I really felt disgusted at the people who were vilifying Olivia on her Instagram and in her own photographs about how horribly she looked and how she looked.
‘I think people have taken it a little bit to really, at the end of the day, it’s one person’s marriage,’ she added.
Laura argued that Olivia was inviting opinions by doing media around the wedding, but that firing vitriol toward her was inappropriate.
She argued: ‘If you don’t want people to have an opinion, don’t do any press surrounding your wedding!’
Olivia and her new partner, Christian, retaliated last week against the influential fashionista who had first criticized the type for her Vogue meeting.
After influence Kennedy, known as Gown Eyed Girl, raised concerns about Olivia’s discussion about her wedding gown, Olivia was swift to cry again.
She told Kennedy: ‘Wow what an completely cruel person you are. Because it’s so painful, I hope no one ever grief you apart in this manner. This costume is all I’ve always wanted and more.’
Kennedy claimed that she was only questioning her opinions and decision to work with Dolce & Gabanna, who have been criticized for their remarks on IVF and who have been accused of racism. Kennedy also claimed that she was not criticizing the gown itself.
She replied: ‘So we aren’t going to acknowledge how your thoughts come across to other people or the history of the manufacturers that you’re supporting?’
Olivia’s fresh husband Christian even supported his family amid the censure and branded Kennedy’s now-viral post as ‘evil’.
‘What an terrible thing to article on-line,’ the San Francisco 49ers celebrity penned. ‘I sincerely hope that my lovely woman finds happiness and peace in the world.
But Kennedy hit up with: ‘@christianmccaffrey So what’s sin is pointing out the possible internalized sexism behind her logic… ‘
The TikToker, who has practically 100k followers, first sparked the gown controversy by offering her opinions on Olivia’s wedding dress in a six-minute picture.
Kennedy said she did not like the gown because of Olivia’s comments, second describing the dress itself as ‘beautiful’ and ‘simple’.
‘It’s the stuff surrounding the dress that leaves kind of a bitter after taste,’ she said.
She continued, claiming that Olivia had “pushed this idea of what she thinks all brides should look like” and that there was no point wanting a modest wedding dress or just modest attire in general.
It’s really strange to me to view this as a sexless design because both you can choose not to engage in sexual activity in this gown and other people can.
Her two statements next to each other are a very poetic way to say that you are asking for whatever you are wearing, which is a very bad way to think.
‘She even says her husband thinks she’s the most beautiful when she is timeless, covered and elegant. I just think the usage of the word “covered” is so icky because you are not covered in day-to-day life,’ she added.
‘And why does he believe that you are the most attractive when you are covered? That’s just such an odd thing.’
Before turning her attention back to the wedding gown, Kennedy asserted with forcefully that Olivia was carrying a “conservative agenda.”
‘There is no personality in this dress,’ she went on. ‘This is just nothing. It is the absence of personality.’
In conclusion, Kennedy said: ‘It’s very clear this was not a wedding. This was a conservative campaign, and it wasn’t even well done.’