Fashioning Change

Pierre Cardin and Chinese Fashion

October 6, 2015

Some thirty years ago on July 22, 1985, Pierre Cardin sent nine young Chinese girls down the runway of his show in Paris, the moment marked the significant changes that had occurred in Chinese fashion and its encounter with the West, as well as offering a glimpse of the future of China’s industry.

Keywords: Chinese fashion, Fashion & diplomacy, Mao suits, Space-age shoulder pads

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