Lady Blue Shanghai
Lady Blue Shanghai is a 16-minute Internet promotion short film for Dior written, directed and edited by David Lynch.It stars Marion Cotillard, Gong Tao, Emily Stofle, Cheng Hong, Lu Yong and Nie Fei, with music by Lynch, Dean Hurley, and Nathaniel Shilkret.[1] The film centers on the surreal circumstances surrounding Cotillard's character, who encounters a mysterious Dior handbag and 1920s music as she enters her hotel room in Shanghai.[2] David Lynch's previous work with fashion companies includes advert collaborations with Gucci,[3] Calvin Klein and Yves Saint Laurent.The vision is of her seeing Shanghai as it was at an earlier time and going up some stairs to a room in which she saw a Chinese man named Yu (Gong Tao).