#DGTheGreatShow is Cancelled

Dolce & Gabbana is up in the talks because of the latest controversy with its latest social media campaign. In an attempt to further appeal to more Chinese luxury crowd, the brand released a very offensive “instructional” video on how to use chopsticks.

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You saw it here first! What an interesting few hours spent wreaking havoc on @dolcegabbana ’s ill-fated #DGTheGreatShow while sitting on our couch juuling and eating gelato (not with chopsticks) lol. Thank you to @michaelatranova @helenatranova @anthxnyxo for sharing their DMs and to all the Chinese Dieters who furiously updated us with translations by the minute. For anyone that believes their account was actually hacked, see slide #2 of Stefano reposting the same DM on his stories before shit hit the fan. Oh the irony of him loving to cry “fake news” and promptly dishing it out himself via his and the brand IG account. Check our story highlight “#DGTheShitShow” for the full recap. • #DGTheGreatShow #DGlovesChina #runway #fashionshow #cancelled #racism #dolceandgabbana #altamoda #rtw #dgmillennials #stefanogabbana #shanghai #chinese #china #wtf #dumb #lame #asianmodel #asian #dietprada

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The Italian fashion house was prepping for its upcoming show in Shanghai on Wednesday, November 21, by posting several videos online with the hashtags #DGLovesChina and #DGTheGreatShow. Because the campaign was named racist it appears the show is now cancelled.

Diet Prada reports.

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#DGlovesChina ? More like #DGdesperateforthatChineseRMB lol. In a bid to further appeal to luxury's covetable Chinese consumers, @dolcegabbana released some hella offensive “instructional” videos on the usage of chopsticks. Pandering at it's finest, but taken up a notch by painting their target demographic as a tired and false stereotype of a people lacking refinement/culture to understand how to eat foreign foods and an over-the-top embellishment of cliché ambient music, comical pronunciations of foreign names/words, and Chinese subtitles (English added by us), which begs the question—who is this video actually for? It attempts to target China, but instead mocks them with a parodied vision of what modern China is not...a gag for amusement. Dolce & Gabbana have already removed the videos from their Chinese social media channels, but not Instagram. Stefano Gabbana has been on a much-needed social media cleanse (up until November 2nd), so maybe he kept himself busy by meddling with the marketing department for this series. Who wants to bet the XL cannoli “size” innuendos were his idea? Lmao. • #dolceandgabbana #altamoda #rtw #dgmillennials #stefanogabbana #shanghai #chinese #italian #cannoli #meme #wtf #dumb #lame #chopsticks #foodie #tutorial #cuisine #italianfood #asianmodel #asian #chinesefood #dietprada

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According to Jing Daily, Dolce & Gabbana shared the videos on Weibo, China’s main social media platform, to promote the Nov. 21 show. While they’ve since been taken down from Weibo, they remain visible on Instagram. In the clips, an Asian woman struggles to eat Italian foods like pasta, pizza, and cannoli with chopsticks. Jing Daily reports that in the cannoli video, the male narrator asks the model, “Is it too huge for you?”

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欢迎收看Dolce & Gabbana “起筷吃饭” 第3弹。 最后一期， 让我们挑战传统番茄酱意面！ 你以为味道跟中国的面条差不多？吃法可大有不同。 Welcome to episode 3 with Dolce&Gabbana’s “eating with chopsticks". In our final episode, we will be tackling the traditional Italian Spaghetti al pomodoro! Now even though you think they may be similar to Chinese noodles, there is a GREAT difference in the way you eat them. #DGLovesChina #DGTheGreatShow

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