Chengdu to outlaw abuse of panda images
- added July 23, 2008
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- mundosanto
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The bid for legislation to protect panda images comes in the wake of some controversial uses of panda iconography which have got Chinese citizens hot under the collar.
Self-styled panda artist Zhao Bandi outraged many with his Bandi-Panda fashion show at China Fashion Week in Beijing earlier this month, sparking nationwide concerns that the so-called conceptual art creation abused the panda's decent image of being a friendly and cute symbol.
Zhao, who always wears a cap that makes him look like a panda cub on his head, is frequently accompanied at media events by a clutch of scantily-clad panda girls - dressed in the sexy style of bunny girls, but with panda-eared wigs instead of bunny-eared ones.
"I'm a king in the panda's world. You see these panda girls are my concubines," he said modestly in an interview with sina.com, a popular web portal in China on Thursday.
At the Beijing fashion parade Zhao used panda imagery in each of his creations. He said he used panda images as "a medium to present different clothing styles of Chinese social classes and social issues."
"There is no meaningful links between panda and these figures that Zhao depicted in his fashion design. He just uses panda as a commercial stunt," was a comment typical of many found on Internet messageboards.
The Chengdu Municipal Committee of the National People's Congress, in west China's Sichuan province, on Friday confirmed the receipt of the planned law, jointly outlined by the municipal bureaus of forestry, parks and woods.
If passed, it would become the world's first panda law.
Zhao told the media that it was "unexpected" news to hear that his fashion concept might be outlawed by the legislation.
Self-styled panda artist Zhao Bandi outraged many with his Bandi-Panda fashion show at China Fashion Week in Beijing earlier this month, sparking nationwide concerns that the so-called conceptual art creation abused the panda's decent image of being a friendly and cute symbol.
Zhao, who always wears a cap that makes him look like a panda cub on his head, is frequently accompanied at media events by a clutch of scantily-clad panda girls - dressed in the sexy style of bunny girls, but with panda-eared wigs instead of bunny-eared ones.
"I'm a king in the panda's world. You see these panda girls are my concubines," he said modestly in an interview with sina.com, a popular web portal in China on Thursday.
At the Beijing fashion parade Zhao used panda imagery in each of his creations. He said he used panda images as "a medium to present different clothing styles of Chinese social classes and social issues."
"There is no meaningful links between panda and these figures that Zhao depicted in his fashion design. He just uses panda as a commercial stunt," was a comment typical of many found on Internet messageboards.
The Chengdu Municipal Committee of the National People's Congress, in west China's Sichuan province, on Friday confirmed the receipt of the planned law, jointly outlined by the municipal bureaus of forestry, parks and woods.
If passed, it would become the world's first panda law.
Zhao told the media that it was "unexpected" news to hear that his fashion concept might be outlawed by the legislation.
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- mundosanto
- 2 months ago
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I want one of his hats!
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That is an alarmingly hilarious and unsexy picture...
Bandi sounds more insane every time I read about him, though it seems to be a bit of overkill on the part of the Chengdu authorities to ban abuse of all panda-images.. so what pictures *can* be used? It's not as if pandas are the property of China, they are part of nature that it is China's responsibility to protect. -
Am I missing something here? Since when are animal costumes illegal? You might sue him for misusing the term 'fashion', but other than that?-
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- JanaPokana
- 2 months ago
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Ha!
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- Purplepanda0o0o
- 2 months ago
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