Dolce & Gabbana Cancels Shanghai Show After “Chopsticks” Ad Causes Uproar

Advertisements for Dolce & Gabbana in which a Chinese woman struggles to eat pizza and spaghetti with chopsticks drew condemnation.
Dolce & Gabbana Cancels Shanghai Show After “Chopsticks” Ad Causes Uproar
A man walks inside a Dolce & Gabbana shop in Beijing on November 22, 2018. Dolce & Gabbana cancelled a long-planned fashion show in Shanghai on November 21 after an outcry over racially offensive posts on its social media accounts. NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images
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SHANGHAI — Dolce & Gabbana canceled a fashion show in Shanghai on Wednesday, after a series of advertisements for the brand in which a Chinese woman struggles to eat pizza and spaghetti with chopsticks drew condemnation from Chinese celebrities and on social media.

The controversy was the number one topic on China’s Twitter-like Weibo platform, with more than 120 million reads by mid-afternoon, as celebrities, including “Memoirs of a Geisha” movie star Zhang Ziyi, posted critical comments about the brand.