Continuing its love affair with our city, Dior has released "Shanghai Dreamers," a series of haute couture prints photographed by local talent, Quentin Shih. But the campaign has triggered accusations that it's images of cloned Chinese people behind - usually - a white model dressed to the nines are pretty racist. more ›

• Christian Dior's high drama ads with Marion Cotillard will soon feature Shanghai, with a David Lynch directed 12-minute piece entitled “Lady Blue.” Says Galliano, “In the David Lynch film, Marion is reciting a poem that he wrote, and was inspired by the Pearl Tower itself. The words and building fuse in the picture he paints on-screen. Shanghai is such a vibrant and inspiring city.” Well, it's got more than enough twin peaks... [Fabsugar]
• Oops! Despite it being advertised on the official Shanghai ticketing website, the Gwen Stefani tour dates for our city are fake. Her Gwen-ness will not be coming in May, instead "Gwen and the guys are in the studio working on the upcoming No Doubt album." [Shanghai Talk]
• SmartShanghai informs us that Phoking, Nam 1975 and the California Pizza Kitchen in the Portman are all closing down. Tony Romas in the Portman is still around though, because their owners made a deal with the devil... or something. Seriously, how is it still around? [SmartShanghai]

With 2005's film version of Memoirs of a Geisha, Chinese people across the world had more reason to hate Zhang Ziyi and foamed at the mouth yet again saying, We’re not Japanese. You would have thought that by now the West would have cottoned onto the message. more ›