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Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy - now extended to November 27!
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Drawing over 130,000 visitors in just 18 weeks, Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy is one of the Fine Arts Museums’ most sought-after fashion exhibitions of the past decade, and is now extended to November 27!
Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy celebrates the extraordinary designs of Guo Pei—hailed as China's first couturier—and includes more than 80 works from the past two decades highlighting her most important collections shown on Beijing and Paris runways. Through exquisite craftsmanship, lavish embroidery, and unconventional dressmaking techniques, Guo Pei creates a fantasy that fuses the influences of China’s imperial past, decorative arts, European architecture, and the botanical world. Through her stunning fashions, the exhibition reveals the trajectory of Guo Pei’s career as remarkable yet emblematic of China’s emergence as a leader in the fashion world in the early twenty-first century.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
At the Legion of Honor, Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy weaves together multiple threads of influence to produce a striking display for the Bay. The designer’s collection evokes a passionate conversation between Chinese and European influences. Of course the haut couture dazzles on its own, but when placed side by side with the Legion of Honor’s collection, the result is a fantastic imagining of cross culture influences both historical and futuristic. Walk the runway right over to Legion of Honor as soon as you can!
Luke Williams
Contributing Writer
The Legion of Honor, formally known as the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, is a part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
The Legion of Honor, formally known as the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, is a part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.