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24 - Fashion and Time in China’s Twentieth Century

from Part IV - Fashion, Modernism, and Modernity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2023

By
Antonia Finnane
Edited by
Christopher Breward ,
Beverly Lemire  and
Giorgio Riello
Christopher Breward
Affiliation:
National Museums Scotland
Beverly Lemire
Affiliation:
University of Alberta
Giorgio Riello
Affiliation:
European University Institute, Florence
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Summary

In the year 2020, a pandemic traceable to a virus-rich species of horseshoe bat brought fashion weeks around the world to a halt. China was ground zero. With Hubei province in lockdown from late January and international borders soon closed to flights from anywhere in the country, few Chinese designers were able to attend the autumn/winter fashion weeks of February 2020. In Milan, hub of a Chinese regional cluster specializing in fashion, the Italian Fashion Chamber launched a ‘China we are with you’ campaign and compensated for the absence of Chinese designers with a virtual display of their works. In Paris a week later, the only show from China was a gallery display by Uma Wang. Facemasks were the accessory of the day. Soon fashion workshops all over the world would be churning them out.

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The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
From the Nineteenth Century to the Present
 , pp. 838 - 889
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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