{"id":9297,"date":"2022-06-16T08:47:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T08:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/?p=9297"},"modified":"2022-09-08T19:47:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T19:47:04","slug":"%e6%97%b6%e8%a3%85%e5%b9%bb%e6%83%b3-guo-pei-couture-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/%e6%97%b6%e8%a3%85%e5%b9%bb%e6%83%b3-guo-pei-couture-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"Guo Pei:"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9297\" class=\"elementor elementor-9297\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3787588 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"3787588\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4589f3b9\" data-id=\"4589f3b9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-04b1165 elementor-widget elementor-widget-author-box\" data-id=\"04b1165\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"author-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-author-box\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-author-box__text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/author\/cindy-clark\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-author-box__name\">Kami Sloan<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-28612f9b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"28612f9b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.12.2 - 23-04-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Through exquisite craftsmanship, lavish embroidery, and unconventional dressmaking techniques, designer Guo Pei creates a <em>Couture Fantasy<\/em> that fuses the influences of China\u2019s imperial past with export art, the grandeur of European court life, architecture, and the botanical world.<\/p><p>The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (the \u201cMuseums\u201d) celebrate Guo Pei\u2019s extraordinary designs in the first comprehensive exhibition of her groundbreaking work. Including more than 80 ensembles from the past two decades, the exhibit highlights the designer\u2019s most influential fashion collections shown on Beijing and Paris runways, along with many designs that have never been shown to the public before now and exclusively presented at the Legion of Honor, transforming the museum into a palace of couture.<\/p><p>\u201cDrawing inspiration from European and Chinese artistic traditions, Guo Pei\u2019s creations blur the boundaries between art and fashion. Displayed in a neoclassical architectural context at the Legion Honor, amidst our collection of European art, Pei\u2019s designs encourage our visitors to consider the rich historical ties between China and the West,\u201d states Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: \u201cSan Francisco, with our position on the Pacific Rim and our significant Chinese heritage, is a natural location to premiere the first major museum exhibition on Guo Pei\u2019s work and we are delighted to present her exquisite designs to US audiences.\u201d<\/p><p>In the early twenty-first century, China emerged as a leader in the fashion world. The exhibition explores the career of Guo Pei\u2014hailed as China\u2019s first couturier\u2014within this context.\u00a0<em>Couture Fantasy<\/em>\u00a0is presented as part of the Museums\u2019 Costume and Textile arts global exhibition program, highlighting extraordinary artists and movements that have changed the course of fashion history.<\/p><p>Artist and designer Guo Pei shares: \u201cAs a creator and artist, there is no greater honor or privilege than to share my creativity with a wider audience. I am therefore honored and humbled that the prestigious Legion of Honor Museum is presenting a retrospective of my work. In doing so, I hope that it brings greater awareness and understanding of my life\u2019s passion, conveys Chinese culture and traditions, and shows the new face of contemporary China.\u201d<\/p><p>The opening Gallery<strong>,<\/strong> Rosekrans Court provides a dramatic backdrop for an exploration of the interplay between theater and costume design in Chinese fashion. Shown on the runway as a play, An Amazing Journey in a Childhood Dream (2008) was created when Guo was pregnant with her second child. For this collection, she envisioned her daughter\u2019s dolls coming to life. These playful designs reveal an overlay of influences that define Guo\u2019s artistic vision. The tightly pleated dresses made from origami-like folds reference Guo\u2019s childhood and the toys she made and played with during the Cultural Revolution. The pastel color palette derives from eighteenth-century French drawings; the separates embroidered with raised metallic thread were inspired by matador costumes worn by Spanish bullfighters.<\/p><p>\u201cFor Guo Pei, each collection starts with a philosophical idea\u2014a spark of inspiration\u2014drawn from a wide range of sources from her personal life and travels, as well as art and architecture, literature, and nature. Layers of meaning and imagery form a bricolage of opulent surfaces imposed upon sculptural silhouettes,\u201d explains Jill D\u2019Alessandro, Curator in Charge of Costume and Textile Arts.<\/p><p>Floral motifs, associated with traditional notions of femininity, have a long history in Chinese decorative arts and textiles and frequently appear in Guo Pei\u2019s designs. This Gallery focuses on the botanical world through two collections:\u00a0<em>Garden of Soul\u00a0<\/em>(2015) and\u00a0<em>Elysium<\/em>\u00a0(2018). Guo Pei cites the Chinese saying, \u201cThere is a kingdom in a flower; wisdom in a leaf,\u201d as the inspiration for\u00a0<em>Garden of Soul<\/em>. She further explains, \u201cI always find the power of nature fascinating, especially when the flowers are blossoming,\u201d and she draws comparisons between the human soul and gardens and their mutual need to be nurtured. In\u00a0<em>Elysium<\/em>, Guo Pei continued to explore botanical life, looking not at the flower petals but the root structures. \u201cRoots are the source of life and vitality; without roots, there\u2019s no life,\u201d she explains. The designer employed skilled bamboo-basket weavers to create the voluminous silhouettes with intricate embroidered detailing that form part of this collection.<\/p><p>The following Gallery is dedicated to the skilled artisans who work in Guo Pei\u2019s atelier. Visitors will get a unique insight into the designer\u2019s adaptation of traditional techniques and the time-consuming craft of creating couture in a display of \u201clong pau,\u201d or \u201cdragon robes,\u201d juxtaposed with three ensembles from Guo Pei\u2019s<em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Legend of the Dragon<\/em>\u00a0collection (2012), current works in progress, and a video of Guo Pei\u2019s atelier.<\/p><div id=\"attachment_9399\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9399\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9399\" src=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/EX1109.028-1-Edited-866x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"866\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/EX1109.028-1-Edited-866x1024.jpg 866w, https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/EX1109.028-1-Edited-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/EX1109.028-1-Edited-768x908.jpg 768w, https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/EX1109.028-1-Edited-1299x1536.jpg 1299w, https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/EX1109.028-1-Edited.jpg 1692w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 866px) 100vw, 866px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Fall\/Winter 2018\u20132019), Copyright \u00a9 Guo Pei \/ Asian Couture Federation. Photograph by Lian Xu<\/p><\/div><h4><em>\u201cGuo Pei\u2019s fashion design is inspirational for my architecture; I&#8217;d love to collaborate with her.\u201d<\/em><\/h4><p><strong>\u2014 Edwin Chan<\/strong><\/p><p>Exhibiting in Paris and traveling in Europe have profoundly impacted Guo Pei\u2019s work. The next Gallery presents Guo Pei\u2019s exploration of architectural elements in two collections called\u00a0<em>Legends\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>L\u2019Architecture<\/em>. Guo Pei\u2019s second couture collection presented in Paris,\u00a0<em>Legends<\/em>\u00a0(Spring 2017), was inspired by a visit to the Abbey of St Gall in Switzerland. She commissioned a fabric woven of gold metal fiber and silk thread for this collection, printed with images from the cathedral\u2019s arched domes. Guo Pei staged her runway presentation for\u00a0<em>L\u2019Architecture<\/em>\u00a0(Fall\/Winter 2018\u20132019 Paris Haute Couture Week), at the Cit\u00e9 de l\u2019Architecture et du Patrimoine. The museum\u2019s extensive collections of Romanesque, Gothic, and Neoclassical molds served as the inspiration for the collection. In Guo Pei\u2019s hands, flying buttresses were translated into wide panniers of translucent silk with a stated intention to evoke architecture\u2019s \u201cbeauty of strength\u201d and foster \u201ca dialogue between the human body and spatial dimension.\u201d<\/p><p>China\u2019s imperial past and the country\u2019s vast cultural history were the focus of the collection\u00a0<em>East Palace\u00a0<\/em>(2019). For this runway show, presented at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Guo Pei created a rendition of the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City. Inspired by Qing Dynasty court dress, Guo presented an overview of traditional Chinese dress and Chinese design elements, with elaborate three-dimensional pale gold embroidery of imperial dragons, birds, and flowers.<\/p><p>The penultimate Gallery presents Guo Pei\u2019s most recent collection,\u00a0<em>Himalaya<\/em>\u00a0(Spring\/Summer 2020 Haute Couture). In its creation, Guo Pei was drawn to the Himalaya\u2019s Mountain range\u2014as a holy place, the residence of the gods, and a sacred temple of the soul and other Asian cultures. She used her personal collection of rare obi belts from Japan, which she and her team transformed by turning them inside out and reassembling them to show the time and labor of the skilled weavers who created these exquisite textiles. Guo Pei states, \u201cHaute couture is not made for commercial gain, but more for a kind of inner quest, a satisfaction of our spiritual being.\u201d<\/p><p>The fantastical collection\u00a0<em>Alternate Universe<\/em>\u00a0(2019\u20132020) serves as the exhibition finale. Inspired by the ideas of an afterlife and reincarnation, Guo Pei expresses, \u201cSince death is inevitable, I prefer to imagine it as a dream, an alternate universe parallel to this world, where everything returns to its original state of true pureness and beauty. It is the start of a mysterious journey.\u201d The ensembles presented symbolize light and darkness coexisting, angels and demons next to one another, and magical creatures creeping out of the shadows. Her signature three-dimensional embroidery techniques conjure up the animal and insect motifs, from the monkeys of\u00a0<em>Aesop\u2019s Fables<\/em>\u00a0to the snake that lured Eve to steal the forbidden fruit.<\/p><p>The museum\u2019s permanent collection of European painting and decorative arts are presented in a suite of galleries designed in the neoclassical style on the Legion of Honor\u2019s main floor. As a metaphor for the intercontinental world in which we live, opulent and intricate designs by Guo Pei are displayed in these galleries. The dialogues were created to highlight the sculptural nature and the historical and iconographical references made by the designer in her creations.<\/p><p>Examples include the \u201cPhoenix\u201d gown from the designer\u2019s\u00a0<em>Legend of the Dragon<\/em>\u00a0collection (2012), presented as the guest of honor in the museum\u2019s popular grand gilded historical French reception room, the \u201cSalon Dor\u00e9. The majestic gold embroidered \u201cDa Jin\u201d (\u201cMagnificent Gold\u201d) ensemble from the\u00a0<em>Samsara (Lifecycle)<\/em>\u00a0collection (2006) takes center stage among works of French and Italian Baroque and Rococo art. Gowns from the\u00a0<em>Legends\u00a0<\/em>collection, inspired by the Abbey of St Gall in Switzerland, are among the saint icons and Madonna figures that populate the medieval gallery. Several pieces from the\u00a0<em>Encounter<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Courtyard<\/em>\u00a0collections (both 2016) are interspersed in the French and British painting and Decorative Arts galleries, highlighting the transcultural resonance of Guo Pei\u2019s designs. A gallery is dedicated to a special presentation that juxtaposes objects from the Museums\u2019 collections of Chinese export art and European chinoiserie\u2014including a tapestry, vases, and a tea set\u2014with Guo Pei\u2019s \u201cPorcelain\u201d dress from the\u00a0<em>One Thousand and the Two Nights<\/em>\u00a0(2010) collection.<\/p><p>As China\u2019s most renowned couturier, Guo Pei has dressed celebrities, royalty, and the political elite. Born in 1967, she started sewing at a very young age and quickly developed a passion for dressmaking. In 1986, she graduated at the top of her class from the Beijing Second Light Industry School, and she spent the next ten years designing for major manufacturers.<\/p><p>In 1997 she launched her own label and atelier, Rose Studio. Today she employs nearly five hundred skilled artisans dedicated to producing her stunning creations, some of which can take thousands of hours and up to two years to complete.<\/p><p>After Rihanna chose to wear one of Pei\u2019s showstopping pieces to the Met Gala, it created a defining moment in her career and inaugurated the museum\u2019s \u201cChina: Through the Looking Glass\u201d exhibition, in which Guo\u2019s works were shown. In July 2015, she held her first solo exhibition at the Mus\u00e9e des Arts D\u00e9coratifs in Paris; she followed that with a sold-out collaborative makeup collection with MAC. Later that year, Guo was honored to become an invited member of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, the chief governing body of the high-fashion industry, allowing her to show on the Paris Haute Couture Week calendar.<\/p><p>She made her Paris haute-couture debut in January 2016, unveiling her\u00a0<em>Courtyard<\/em>\u00a0collection to wide critical acclaim. In the same year, she was also named one of Time magazine\u2019s 100 Most Influential People and one of the\u00a0<em>Business of Fashion\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0BoF 500 most influential people shaping the global fashion industry.<\/p><p>Guo Pei has breathed new life into embroidery and painting traditions that date back thousands of years, a modern messenger of her cultural heritage. Showcasing the finest of traditional Chinese craftsmanship while incorporating contemporary innovation and Western-style, Guo Pei is a passionate artisan who wants to evoke emotions and inspire people through her art.<\/p><p>In the world of Guo Pei, fabric, shape, and texture resonate with meaning. Inspired by fairy tales, legends, and even military history, every creation tells a story and is a canvas for artistic expression, bringing beauty, romance, and the designer\u2019s imagination to life. They tell the stories that paintings and embroidery have conveyed throughout the centuries. As Guo Pei says so eloquently, \u201cI am a product of changing China.\u201d<\/p><p><em>Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy<\/em> is curated by Jill D\u2019Alessandro, Curator in Charge of Costume and Textile Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in close collaboration with Guo Pei. <\/p><p>BuYun Chen, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at Swarthmore College and currently fellow at Stanford Humanities Center, and Rachel Silberstein, Lecturer in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, serve as advising scholars on the exhibition organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco with significant support from the Asian Couture Federation. \u2610<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.famsf.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.famsf.org<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guopei.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.guopei.com<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legionofhonor.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.legionofhonor.org<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4ce1f9a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"4ce1f9a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9834d7a\" data-id=\"9834d7a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e211dfe elementor-widget elementor-widget-gallery\" data-id=\"e211dfe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;columns&quot;:&quot;3&quot;,&quot;aspect_ratio&quot;:&quot;1:1&quot;,&quot;image_hover_animation&quot;:&quot;grow&quot;,&quot;overlay_title&quot;:&quot;title&quot;,&quot;overlay_description&quot;:&quot;caption&quot;,&quot;lazyload&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;gallery_layout&quot;:&quot;grid&quot;,&quot;columns_tablet&quot;:2,&quot;columns_mobile&quot;:1,&quot;gap&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:10,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;gap_tablet&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:10,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;gap_mobile&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:10,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;link_to&quot;:&quot;file&quot;,&quot;overlay_background&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;content_hover_animation&quot;:&quot;fade-in&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"gallery.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery__container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"e-gallery-item elementor-gallery-item elementor-animated-content\" href=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RESIZED-LARGER_denis.jpg\" data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"all-e211dfe\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"Guo Pei : Runway - Paris Fashion Week - Haute Couture Spring Summer 2018\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6OTQwMiwidXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6XC9cL3ZlbnVtYWdhemluZS5jb21cL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjJcLzA2XC9SRVNJWkVELUxBUkdFUl9kZW5pcy5qcGciLCJzbGlkZXNob3ciOiJhbGwtZTIxMWRmZSJ9\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-gallery-image elementor-gallery-item__image\" data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RESIZED-LARGER_denis.jpg\" data-width=\"2000\" data-height=\"1331\" alt=\"\" ><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__title\">Guo Pei : Runway - Paris Fashion Week - Haute Couture Spring Summer 2018<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__description\">PARIS, FRANCE - JANUARY 24:  Debra Shaw walks the runway during the Guo Pei Spring Summer 2018 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 24, 2018 in Paris, France.  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Photograph by Lian Xu\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6MTE1ODksInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOlwvXC92ZW51bWFnYXppbmUuY29tXC93cC1jb250ZW50XC91cGxvYWRzXC8yMDIyXC8wN1wvc2hvcnQtcHVycGxlLWRyZXNzX2V4dC5qcGciLCJzbGlkZXNob3ciOiJhbGwtZTIxMWRmZSJ9\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-gallery-image elementor-gallery-item__image\" data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/short-purple-dress_ext.jpg\" data-width=\"1818\" data-height=\"2000\" alt=\"\" ><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__title\">An Amazing Journey in a Childhood Dream (2008), Asian Couture Federation. Photograph by Lian Xu<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__description\">Copyright \u00a9 Guo Pei<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"e-gallery-item elementor-gallery-item elementor-animated-content\" href=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bdebb6a84efa7fa17cb08119c406c47.jpg\" data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"all-e211dfe\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6MTI0NTAsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOlwvXC92ZW51bWFnYXppbmUuY29tXC93cC1jb250ZW50XC91cGxvYWRzXC8yMDIyXC8wN1wvYmRlYmI2YTg0ZWZhN2ZhMTdjYjA4MTE5YzQwNmM0Ny5qcGciLCJzbGlkZXNob3ciOiJhbGwtZTIxMWRmZSJ9\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-gallery-image elementor-gallery-item__image\" data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bdebb6a84efa7fa17cb08119c406c47.jpg\" data-width=\"1333\" data-height=\"2000\" alt=\"\" ><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"e-gallery-item elementor-gallery-item elementor-animated-content\" href=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image.jpg\" data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"all-e211dfe\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6MTI0NTEsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOlwvXC92ZW51bWFnYXppbmUuY29tXC93cC1jb250ZW50XC91cGxvYWRzXC8yMDIyXC8wN1wvaW1hZ2UuanBnIiwic2xpZGVzaG93IjoiYWxsLWUyMTFkZmUifQ%3D%3D\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-gallery-image elementor-gallery-item__image\" data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image.jpg\" data-width=\"1333\" data-height=\"2000\" alt=\"\" ><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-gallery-item__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through exquisite craftsmanship, lavish embroidery, and unconventional dressmaking techniques, designer Guo Pei creates a Couture Fantasy that fuses the influences of China\u2019s imperial past with export art, the grandeur of European court life, architecture, and the botanical world. 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