Dolce & Gabbana beg for forgiveness after ‘racist’ ad triggers backlash in China

The founders of Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana have apologized to China, after a ‘racist’ ad saw the company dumped by Chinese retailers and boycotted across Chinese social media. In a video posted to Chinese social network Weibo on Friday, Domenico Dolce and Steffano Gabbana begged for forgiveness from the Chinese, who are responsible […]

Dolce & Gabbana cancels Shanghai show after ad campaign and founder’s Instagram DMs mocked Chinese culture

Dolce & Gabbana/Instagram Dolce & Gabbana launched an ad campaign featuring a Chinese model eating traditional Italian food with chopsticks. When a woman called out the campaign, the fashion house’s cofounder Stefano Gabbana allegedly responded by calling her “not comfortable in the brain” and saying that Chinese people eat dogs. The woman took screenshots of […]