Fashion icons Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana can each face up to two years in prison for failing to declare $1.3 billion in taxes. 

Reports indicated that the Dolce & Gabbana designers are currently caught up in a €400 million tax evasion suit.

Women's Wear Daily noted that Gateano Ruta, the prosecutor involved in the ongoing Dolce and Gabbana tax evasion trial requested that each of the designers be sentenced to at least two years and a half in prison. In Ruta's closing speech, he specifically indicated that each should receive two-and-a-half years in jail. 

The case goes back to 2004, when the pair sold Dolce & Gabbana and D&G brands tp Gado SRL, a holding company created by the designers. Authorities concluded that the two made the move to avoid paying taxes in Italy. 

"They are the ones who profited most from the operation," Ruta said, according  the Italian news agency ANSA. "Gado was an artificial construction made for the tax advantage that was obtained."

In April, courts mandated the pair to pay a €343.4 million fine to Italy's Tax Comission in a separate trial from the same situation. The designers have yet to confirm if they will appeal this decision.

However, they have maintained their innocence for the upcoming trial and is reported to appeal the recent charges. 

Gabbana took to his Twitter account to let fans know that he is innocent, until proven guilty. 

"To be accused of something untrue is not a beautiful thing. But in the end who cares, we will all finish up six feet under," Gabbana said in a personal Twitter statement. "I am interested in making clothes and that's all. They can do and say what they want."

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