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Katy Perry's Sunflower Dress Stirs Up Controversy in China: Political Statement or Style Snafu?
http://my.xfinity.com/articles/entertainment-eonline/20150430/b651901/What looked like just another technicolor costume for the pop princess has stirred up animosity among those who saw the sunflower-studded dress she wore onstage Tuesday as a pro-Taiwanese statement. Which, considering she was performing in Taipei and she was surrounded by sunflowers, could have been the case—but she's performed in that costume before.
Taiwan just marked last month the anniversary of the Sunflower Student Movement, when students staged a 23-day occupation of Taiwan's parliament last year in protest of the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement, a trade pact that some Taiwanese feared would give mainland China too much economic influence in the sovereign state....
According to Quartz , plenty of Perry's Taiwanese fans adored the outfit and what could be construed as its political significance, while posts on Chinese social media indicated that the pop star may have lost some fans on the mainland.
"I'm speechless over Fruit Sister," read one post on Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo that referred to Perry by a local nickname (which she got for wearing a lot of costumes that involve fruit). "I suppose she has no chance to come to the mainland anymore, though she might not care. These performers who intervene in other countries' politics are the most annoying."
Taiwan just marked last month the anniversary of the Sunflower Student Movement, when students staged a 23-day occupation of Taiwan's parliament last year in protest of the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement, a trade pact that some Taiwanese feared would give mainland China too much economic influence in the sovereign state....
According to Quartz , plenty of Perry's Taiwanese fans adored the outfit and what could be construed as its political significance, while posts on Chinese social media indicated that the pop star may have lost some fans on the mainland.
"I'm speechless over Fruit Sister," read one post on Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo that referred to Perry by a local nickname (which she got for wearing a lot of costumes that involve fruit). "I suppose she has no chance to come to the mainland anymore, though she might not care. These performers who intervene in other countries' politics are the most annoying."
Sometimes a dress is just a dress.
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