In preparation for Fashion Week 2015 in New York, Milan, London and Paris the Latest Sale, Business Directory team focuses on Fashion this week. We touch on artistic couture at cultural institutions. The Costume Institute exhibition in celebration of China: Through the Looking Glass showcases Chinese art and fashion and their influence on designers from the West. The exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York inaugurated on 4th May 2015 and will continue up until 7th September 2015.
So far according to data from artnewspaper.com, over 358,381 visitors have enjoyed the China: Looking through the Glass exhibition to date. Photography by Julia Halperin demonstrates the elegance of Chinese couture with a symbolic Guo Pei, Evening Gown, Evening Gown, Magnificent Gold from the Spring/Summer 2007 collection that took 50,000 hours to make according Mailonline from the Spring/Summer 2007 collection. More recently Guo Pei dedicatd two years designing and fitting the elegant, handmade Rihanna canary yellow gown worn at the MET gala in May 2015
Couture fashion image courtesy of Julia Halperin, www.theartnewspaper.com