CHN: Dior's "The Grandest Show in Asia" Fashion Show

[Ghost]

ok....sorry if i insulted you guys..what i want to mean is that sometimes ..err.. actually chinese celebrities, even from taiwan and hongkong are very cheesy. btw, i'm not a chinese

talking about China, i want to show funny signs in china..they seem to be just directly translated from dictionary without clarification..no offence

actually the green chinese words says"ethnic group or race" park
but they translated into "racist part"

danwei

 

[haoshcn]

ok....sorry if i insulted you guys..what i want to mean is that sometimes ..err.. actually chinese celebrities, even from taiwan and hongkong are very cheesy. btw, i'm not a chinese

talking about China, i want to show funny signs in china..they seem to be just directly translated from dictionary without clarification..no offence

actually the green chinese words says"ethnic group or race" park
but they translated into "racist part"

You are not ethnic Chinese (the majority of people from Taiwan are also ethnic Chinese although lots of them are unwilling to admit it )? then why do you have such good knowledge of Chinese language and could even tell the translation problems of those public signs? BTW, these pictures are obviously collected from internet, I find it a bit weird for a non-Chinese-speaker to come up with the idea of looking for and be able to find such pictures.

Anyway, I don't see that you post has anything to do with "Designers and Collections". You should post it to a "Poor English Translation Forum", rather than here at "The Fashion Spot".

 

[Ghost]

ok Mainland chineses are really Pumpkins....just admit it...

well i wonder why i can speak english though i'm not an american or a english

 

[EdanChrysler]

ok....sorry if i insulted you guys..what i want to mean is that sometimes ..err.. actually chinese celebrities, even from taiwan and hongkong are very cheesy. btw, i'm not a chinese

Clever. You apologised for offending people and then proceed to say things which potentially offend them again. Brilliant idea.

talking about China, i want to show funny signs in china..they seem to be just directly translated from dictionary without clarification..no offence

And your point in doing this is ... ? So everyone can have a laugh at the Chinese because they're "country bumpkins"? So everyone can mock them for their less-than-adequate grasp of the English language? Allow me to point out that as people who natively speak Chinese, you can't expect them to magically grasp the English language (and let me remind you that the introduction of compulsory English language education in China is fairly recent).

And you just proved how excellent you are at offending people by saying "no offence". So what's the point of posting the pictures?

ok Mainland chineses are really Pumpkins....just admit it...

well i wonder why i can speak english though i'm not an american or a english

Ah there you have it again. Proving your excellence at offending people even though you claim it is not so. *applause*

And just for the record, it's country bumpkins, with a "b". And you even attempt to place yourself above the mainland Chinese by saying you can speak English even though you're not native. Let me just remind you that ability in a language is not a dichotomy. It's not that you either speak a language or you don't. It's how well you speak it and the background you have that affects your ability to speak a foreign language.

And don't swerve the boat off-course. Here I am talking about how cool it is to see the clothes properly for once and there you are calling the Chinese "pumpkins". What a wet blanket *continues partying*

Oh yeah - about those pair of boots - I'm sure they're not new. I remember them being featured on Style.com under the Accessories Report for Fall/Winter 2006 - under Paris -> Christian Dior. Unless it's featured only in the report and NOT on the runway. But that's unlikely. I think they're pretty cool though. Unfortunately they don't really match the outfit in that picture JR1 posted. The colour's a bit too ... light?

 

[Ghost]

ok let me clarify it....the reasons i posted the sign is becasue this topic reminded me of today's newspaper talking about how china is going to deal with these errors for coming olympic, and they show these pictures in the paper which amused us. I just want to share with you guys some funny pics

and for putting "no offence", i'm worried that some people may think that i'm insulting them.

and why do i say "well i wonder why i can speak english though i'm not an american or a english"?
it's becase haoshcn is doubting that i am a chinese who is trying to act like a non-chinese like those from hongkong and taiwan. she doesn't believe i'm a non-chinese because i know chinese

and some more i don't place myself above chinese because i don't see english speaker as something big or whatever...in fact, i even respect people who can speak their native language very well.
My "mainland china will be mainland china..being country bumpkin blabla" is actually refering to the celebrities and models.

 

[EdanChrysler]

The signs are somewhat amusing, but posting them here in this irrelevant thread on pure account of them being funny is enough to count as being offensive to people (especially those who're Chinese). Fine if your intention isn't malicious, but other people can't and won't see it as so (for example, me). The wider implications are important (and you posted 7 pictures! If that isn't an attempt at mockery, what is?) - and again, your comment that "ok Mainland chineses are really Pumpkins....just admit it..." is really uncalled for.

Someone please continue this conversation about DIOR and/or their show in China. I don't want to discuss about the mainland Chinese here; maybe if you want you can start a new thread elsewhere (I believe it'll become a flame war and end up being closed though). So, please. Dior. Talk about the show, or the clothes, or how strange they look on the androgynous model

 

[Ghost]

"ok Mainland chineses are really Pumpkins....just admit it..."
why i said this is becuase i was quite angry with haoshcn and i just ...say it

 

[haoshcn]

and for putting "no offence", i'm worried that some people may think that i'm insulting them.

EdanChrysler made a good point, you have been consistently and intentionally making insulting comments on this thread to offend people with different cultural and ethnic background from you. I don't care where you are from, which kind of language you speak, but your practice is explicitly prohibited by TFS rules. You can say there are lots of bumpkins from China who have totally no idea about fashion and style, no problem, even as 100% Chinese myself, I agree with that perfectly. But what you said was "ok Mainland chineses are really Pumpkins....just admit it...", if this is not offensive racism, I don't know what else is. I don't mind people criticizing China about this or that kind of issue, but intentional and malicious insults will never be tolerated. Keep this in you mind in your future posts!

 

[haoshcn]

"ok Mainland chineses are really Pumpkins....just admit it..."
why i said this is becuase i was quite angry with haoshcn and i just ...say it

You didn't say this just because you were angry with me. Even before I said anything on this thread, you started all these generalizing insults by yourself. If you hate and despise Chinese in general, go to start a forum like "Anti-Chinese", "Mainland-Chinese-are-all-Bumpkins" or whatever, and indulge youself over there, just keep your venom away from TFS, this is fashion forum for us to discuss fashion and style, not a place for you to exhibit poor English translations done by Chinese, or to justify how legitimate your contempt against Chinese is!

 

[Ghost]

you..shut up i have nothing against chinese
i'm angry with you because i apologised first to you to calm you down. i know i'm wrong in posting those signs after apologising instead of keeping quiet. i don't intend to insult you by those pictures
what i'm fed up with is the way you said to me in cocky tone in post 22

 

[haoshcn]

you..shut up i have nothing against chinese

Check back you own posts in this thread by yourself before you tell me to shut up! The one who should shut up is YOU, not me! You are behaving like a completely irrational ten-year-old kid who has totally no idea what's appropriate and what's inapproprite to say in public.

 

[EdanChrysler]

People ... stop bickering, please! I don't want this thread to end up locked! This thread is for the Dior fans (or anti-Dior-by-Galliano activists)!

*ahem*

Anyway, I knew I saw that boot on the accessories report on Style.com. Here's the picture:

Absolutely love it.

Oh - and it's under Accessories Report -> Paris -> Dior by John Galliano - and not "Christian Dior" as I previously thought. You'll need to scroll through a few other accessories before you see the boot. There are some other very cool accessories in the report as well.

 

[Ghost]

ok enough for china
for you

 

[EdanChrysler]

Ghost: I'm not bothering until the discussion gets back on topic.

Anyway, for the benefit of those who are really interested in this show, I did a search on Baidu.com for the show and managed to find a photo gallery. You can see it here:

http://lady.tom.com/piclibs/060626dior/index.html

It seems that the collection shown in China isn't purely the Fall/Winter 2006 collection shown in Paris; it, in fact, contains numerous pieces from the pre-fall collection (the ones shown in the pre-fall lookbook shots done by Morgane Dubled) as well. Perhaps that explains the lack of the original theatrics of the Paris show.

P.S. To navigate the pages of the gallery, just scroll down until you see the "1 2 3 4 5". Click on each of the numbers to view the respective page number. And just like most galleries, click on a thumbnail to see a larger version of the picture.

 

[Ghost]

 

[Ghost]

ok anyway back on the topic......karma for her

 

[funkalicious]

People ... stop bickering, please! I don't want this thread to end up locked! This thread is for the Dior fans (or anti-Dior-by-Galliano activists)!

*ahem*

Anyway, I knew I saw that boot on the accessories report on Style.com. Here's the picture:


Absolutely love it.

Oh - and it's under Accessories Report -> Paris -> Dior by John Galliano - and not "Christian Dior" as I previously thought. You'll need to scroll through a few other accessories before you see the boot. There are some other very cool accessories in the report as well.

Oh but the boots weren't in the f/w 06 show! But your post about Baidu explained it though.

Kudos to that women on top.

 

[Caffeine]

ghost, enough is enough. Please look at the mirror and see how ridiculous you are! Are you here to post insulting language or to discuss fashion?

I'm disappointed by the show as they didn't show the entire outfits together. I don't mind using new models, but the bags and accessories are essential pieces of the outfits, and the looks were not complete without them.

 

[hearttbeats]

they are so cute though, i love asains.

 

[haoshcn]

I'm disappointed by the show as they didn't show the entire outfits together. I don't mind using new models, but the bags and accessories are essential pieces of the outfits, and the looks were not complete without them.

As I said before, most of time these kinds of shows done in greater China (mainland, HK, Taiwan) are nothing but PR activities. Usually they just replicate the Milan or Paris show with some modifications. The focus of these shows are usually the celebrities, not the clothes, most Chinese press are also more interested in which kinds of celebrity gossips they could find than clothes themselves. Local fashion editors almost get no attention on such shows, unlike Milan, Paris or even New York fashion shows where fashion editors are always exposed to lots of flashlights.

Sometimes they do interesting shows. Chanel is particularly good at that. They could find very interesting venues for their shows. Several years ago, Chanel did a show at a very old military airport in Shanghai, and last year, Chanel did a big show at Pudong international airport in Shanghai, all the guests had to take the new meglev train to get to the show venue from Longyang subway station. Chanel even painted big Chanel logos on the meglev train and changed it into a Chanel express, which is quite amazing. Last month or so, Chanel replicated the entire SS 06 Paris Haute Couture show in Hongkong, even including the original settings. But the problem of all these shows is that they always look like some sort of inferior clone. It would be much more interesting if they could be bolder and infuse more local features and creativity into the way those clothes are presented.