East meets West (map) Pierre Cardin Yves_ Chinese clothing net

Yves Saint Laurent and Chinese love from more than 30 years ago. In early 1977, he in eighteenth Century the Chinese Qing Dynasty officials dress for inspiration, the design of a senior custom series -- Golden brocade jacket, pagoda type hat, can reveal the shadows of the orient.

with 1977 haute couture series launched earlier, also called the "Opium" new perfume. Sensitive name though controversial, but help this perfume to attract more eye, make the fashionable people preferred, this enduring.

2004, Tom Ford in this represents himself as the last in a series of YSL Rive Gauche design completely copied the predecessors, as the models are put on a dress stand collar, a royal robe dress.

1985, Yves Saint Laurent to host the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art as the retrospective at the Beijing Art Museum of China, this was the first time we have "Yves · Saint Laurent ·" the official translation. It was the beginning of China's reform and opening-up, accustomed to the simple dress of Chinese cold not the d see the works of masters, surprised than appreciation. Although this exhibition only in the clothing art colleges, teachers and students of small scope, but throughout the Chinese speaking environment, and the future of the fashion industry, its meaning is very historical.

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is our familiar fashion pioneer is Pierre Cardin. In other Western designers are still skeptical or wait-and-see attitude to China, Cardin simply put their factories moved to China, even as far away as Paris restaurant Maksim, has also been completely copy to Beijing, on the opening day of the 1984 national day. "If I can operate in Beijing restaurant Maksim, I believe, even in the open on the moon, a will be nothing difficult. Close your eyes and feel, you'll find out here in Paris and no difference." At the opening ceremony, the guest said in Pierre Cardin. Obviously, this kind of restaurant is not profitable at the time, but he was not a bit worried, "I see it as my gift to China's gift." Since then, "Pierre Cardin ·" in the name of all Chinese on both sides of the Changjiang River, is the earliest known "international brand".

follow the fashion tide, Valentino Garavani has also been invited to China, held a fashion show in the Imperial Ancestral Temple in Beijing. Valentino shows fashion shape slender profile red to thousands of people including many dignitaries, black and white, there are all kinds of lace dress. After the show, a 22 year old art student on behalf of all the audience gave a thought: "fashion is great.