BEIJING—The co-founders of Dolce&Gabbana apologized Friday in a video on Chinese social media after promotional videos seen as racist and subsequent Instagram messages stoked a furor in one of the world’s largest markets for luxury goods. A man walks inside a Dolce & Gabbana shop in Beijing on Nov. 22. Many Chinese social media users called the videos racist and full of outdated stereotypes. Several screenshots showed Gabbana’s Instagram account referring to China with crude terms and emoji as he defended the promotional videos. A duty-free shop at the Haikou Meilan airport on China’s Hainan island announced on social media that it had pulled all the company’s products.

Source: thestar November 23, 2018 13:06 UTC