Dress “China Style”: Fashion Fantasies versus Authentic Realities
Join Chinese Art Historian, Dr. Angela Sheng, for an illustrated online talk about the allure of “China Style” in today’s fashion world and the cinematic visual culture, utilized to create fantasies for various purposes. Dr. Sheng will expose the conflicting paradigms of power, identity, and eroticism embedded in the making and using of “China Style.”
The illustrated lecture will clarify the notion of “China Style” as understood in the world of fashion, and the world at large, and then raise questions about their complex contexts. Whose fashion, as seen worn by whom, when and where? Made by whom and when and where for what reasons? What realities were transposed into what fantasies?
Dr. Angela Sheng is an Associate Professor in Art History in the School of the Arts at McMaster.
The illustrated lecture will clarify the notion of “China Style” as understood in the world of fashion, and the world at large, and then raise questions about their complex contexts. Whose fashion, as seen worn by whom, when and where? Made by whom and when and where for what reasons? What realities were transposed into what fantasies?
Dr. Angela Sheng is an Associate Professor in Art History in the School of the Arts at McMaster.
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