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Zadig + Voltaire’s New Hotel Is Not Open To ‘Chinese Tourists’

If you make a mistake on the web, people will most definitely see it. And if you try to cover it up, well, that just makes it worse. Case in point: a racist remark in an article about Zadig + Voltaire‘s new hotel in Paris’ Left Bank.

The brand’s founder Thierry Gillier told WWD that a mansion in which the spring 2013 show was just held would become a “high-end hotel” opening in 2014. He calls it “a project dear to our hearts”, and it’s apparently going to be so exclusive that certain people, specifically “Chinese tourists”, are not allowed.

According to Gillier’s words in the original article:

“It will be a slightly private hotel, not open to everybody, with 40 rooms. We are going to select guests. It won’t be open to Chinese tourists, for example. There is a lot of demand in Paris — many people are looking for quiet with a certain privacy.”

The racist comment has since be changed to “busloads of tourists”, which doesn’t really make anything better. Nothing says hospitality like a big ‘No Chinese Allowed’ sign at the door. We’d also like to point out that China is a big emerging market for luxury goods, so if Zadig + Voltaire’s revenue decreases in the next quarter, we all know why.

[WWD via The Cut]



  • Anonymous

    Sick of this double standard. Chinese have areas in the US where Whites aren’t welcome. Africa for Africans, Asian for Asians, White countries for everyone, right?

  • Gwendolyn

    It is not advertised, but most of the high end hotels in Paris are not open to Chinese tourists. The Chinese are profoundly disliked in Paris because masses of Chinese tourists have come visiting the French capital in recent years bringing their distinct lack of worldliness and extremely bad manners with them. Spitting on the floor at Printemps? Throwing trash and food on the ground? Trying to have a picnic in the museums while screaming at each other and lighting up cigarettes? Yep. I have seen all of this and more. The French will openly state how much they hate Chinese tourists.

    Guessing that based on this “gaffe” alone, Zadig + Voltaire’s revenue will most likely go way up in the next quarter.

    PS: Because of the Chinese, the French now LOVE American tourists…..which is pretty funny considering how they seemed to feel about Americans in the past.

  • DarkJD

    Hong Kong people can also understand why. We have literally their shites, mainlander Chinese act like they own Hong Kong and when we Hong Kong people protests their lack of manners we were told that if the mainland government weren’t looking after us Hong Kong would have already been dead, plus one university lecturer from Beijing calling us Hong Kong people dogs. Gee, who’s the dog? Hong Kong people or mainlanders who defecate and piss wherever they find convenient, openly attack people, refuse to pay full price for their meal just because the food was not to their taste, and demanding we use their written script and spoken language instead of our local Cantonese and English. Mainlanders have no sense of who’s the host and who’s the guest. It’s no wonder the French don’t like them, and now they are causing innocent causualties because the French will mistakenly think Hong Kong people and Taiwan people are mainlanders.

  • Pinoy9

    Forgetting that white countries “colonized” alot of brown countries, are we? You obviously failed in world history class, KKK member.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003307697956 Kieran Tsao

    You’re an idiot, dividing the Chinese people so that they fight against each other. He makes no reference to specifically targeting China Chinese – to whites, “we’re all the same”. Mainlander means nothing to people like him… Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, British Chinese, Asian American…. he means us all.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003307697956 Kieran Tsao

    Nope, the French still hate the Americans.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003307697956 Kieran Tsao

    Which ones? I went to Shanghai recently – they would do anything to have whites in the area, not the other way round. I guess by “areas” you mean the Chinese government HQ and military installations….

  • Anonymous

    Bitter HK’ers think they’re better than Mainlanders, but to the rest of the world, you’ve got the same funny English accent that we do, sucks, doesn’t it?

  • Anonymous

    Whahahahahahah sound like you got owned alot.

  • iluvlamp

    I don’t understand why Chinese people buy pretentious European brands when it’s clear that Europeans are RACIST against Asians and Muslims. Paying $2,000 for an LV on a purse doesn’t make you classier, it makes you a fool!. I’m so sick of Europe monopolizing luxury goods, they are so overrated and cliche. BOYCOTT EUROPEAN GOODS!

  • iluvlamp

    The majority of Chinese immigrants to the West were from HK and Taiwan. That’s why all of Chinatown speaks Cantonese. All the negative, fobby, “chinky” stereotypes are thanks to HK people. Why do you think the Canadians refer to Vancouver as “Hong-couver”? FYI, HK people look just like every other Southern Chinese person! You do not have white skin or blue eyes just because the Brits occupied Hong Kong. Get over yourselves! You just look like horses parading around in lipstick.

  • iluvlamp

    Nobody cares about what the French think. In fact, nobody likes French people anyway. I wish Chinese people would return the hate and BOYCOTT FRENCH GOODS!

  • iluvlamp

    haha are you kidding me? I see more White people in Chinatowns or Koreatowns these days than Asians. In fact, the Manhattan Chinatown has been overrun by White hipsters displacing local Asians. And Asian countries are swarming with White ESL teachers who get treated like royalty because of their race. Meanwhile, Asians who go to Western countries get treated like parasites. It is definitely NOT Equal or fair.

  • iluvlamp

    Chinese people should return the hate by BOYCOTTING EUROPEAN GOODS! Support Asian, Middle-Eastern, African, and S. American goods!

  • Anonymous

    Can’t see what’s so special about it. Many hotels don’t take tour groups.

  • Anonymous

    What hate? I don’t have a cat and don’t plan to get one. Doesn’t mean I hate cats.

  • John Dol

    Guys, this is a simple argument, if you consider Blue Navy has better design than Zadig + Voltaire. Case closed !

    What hotel … you mean drive-by motel ?

    Can I watch my TV show now ?

  • John Dol

    Humm, good logic. So you are not gay but you don’t mind fuxking a guy occasionally ?

    That’s very French …

  • John Dol

    Can I see you HK ID please ?

    Please don’t tell me you are a holder of British (Overseas) Passport.

  • John Dol

    To be very honest with you, everyone loves French !

    Because they are very funny, and … stupid.

  • John Dol

    Look, you can’t BOYCOTT too many people at the same time, we need clothes to wear you know. We BOYCOTT the little Japs for now. French can wait.

    Next year, ok ?

  • John Dol

    You, you typing English ?

    You can do double-byte too you know.

  • John Dol

    Ok, no more China visa for you. You can stay in Taiwan forever and apply ur Japanese citizenship, ok ?

  • Nonnon

    I like a quite Hotel. So it’s good news to hear… Chinese tourist allegedly stole a valuable objects and have a bad manners, so good for them… however it is not racism. It a realism… I say.

  • totor

    All americans people are really stupid, I supect you, you are a white american guy and if I meet you, no doubt, you are american, don’t need to say from which country you come, that’s a well known fact. Everyone on earth know that.

  • hop

    And some Hong Kong people, go to Diaoyu island with People Republic of China flags to recall to japaneses that those islands are Taiwan chinese ones. Japanese finally agreed with China after lot of historical papers exchange, but USA send 2 aircraft carriers and lot of war floats. Well think what about that ?

  • AndyGolden

    Hk’ers got different accent from Mainlanders because the mother languages they are speaking are different.

  • AndyGolden

    “To whites” is the main point of this reply. I do not care how they view us as. The fact is that the “offenders” are the Mainlanders and most of the rest, either Hong Kongers, Singaporeans, British Chinese, or Asian Americans, are also the “victims”.

  • Anonymous

    It doesn’t sound any better.

  • Prefboy

    France is the rudest nation in Europe, agreed unanimously by all EU countries, and incapable to speak any foreign language. When I was in Paris, I was banging my head against a brick wall by trying speaking English. Not to mention the Cashiers and Restaurant servants whom are stupid, arrogant and monolingual. French = Euro-Rubbish.

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