{"id":8742,"date":"2025-10-15T18:44:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/?p=8742"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:44:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:44:47","slug":"tim-cooks-labubu-moment-in-shanghai-delights-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/2025\/10\/tim-cooks-labubu-moment-in-shanghai-delights-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Cook\u2019s Labubu Moment in Shanghai Delights China"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time : <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Tim Cook\u2019s recent visit to Shanghai turned unexpectedly charming when he received a custom Labubu figure during Pop Mart\u2019s \u201cTHE MONSTERS\u201d 10th Anniversary Exhibition. Artist Kasing Lung personally handed him the toy, crafted with Cook\u2019s likeness \u2014 white fur, glasses, jeans, sneakers, and even a tiny iPhone 17 \u2014 merging pop art with tech flair.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The meeting wasn\u2019t a random encounter. Cook toured the exhibition alongside Pop Mart founder Wang Ning and Lung, watching as the artist used an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil to sketch his famous creature. The gesture tied together Apple\u2019s creative ecosystem and China\u2019s growing design culture, symbolizing how art and technology now intertwine naturally.<\/p>\n

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The encounter gained wide attention online, especially after Cook posted on Weibo that \u201cLabubu has her own new iPhone 17 Pro in Cosmic Orange.\u201d Fans in China flooded the comments with affection, seeing the visit as a genuine cultural connection rather than a marketing move. Pop Mart\u2019s shares even rose after the news broke.<\/p>\n

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Beyond the cute gesture, Cook\u2019s Labubu moment hints at Apple\u2019s ongoing effort to deepen its bond with Chinese consumers. By engaging directly with beloved local icons like Labubu, Apple isn\u2019t just selling devices \u2014 it\u2019s sharing in the country\u2019s creative heartbeat, something far more enduring than any product launch.<\/p>\n

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#Apple #TimCook #Labubu #PopMart #Shanghai #China #KasingLung #iPhone17 #Weibo #Design #Culture<\/p>\n

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Reading Time : <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>Tim Cook\u2019s Shanghai visit turned cultural when he received a custom Labubu figure from artist Kasing Lung at Pop Mart\u2019s anniversary exhibit. The playful encounter, shared on Weibo, thrilled fans and even boosted Pop Mart\u2019s stock \u2014 a reminder that Apple\u2019s charm in China now extends well beyond technology into art and shared imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,9],"tags":[397,211,19,83,4,546,545,183,544],"class_list":["post-8742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-famous-people","category-fashion","tag-397","tag-apple","tag-benedicte","tag-famous-people","tag-gout-design","tag-kasing-lung","tag-labubu","tag-marketing","tag-tim-cook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8747,"href":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742\/revisions\/8747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goutanddesign.com\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}