Alice YU

12 of Alice YU's 83 looks draw on a specific dress or craft tradition, as read from the photographs.

• Manton de manila · Spain · European folk & regional dress4 looks

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  “Large silk shawl with dense polychrome floral silk embroidery (roses, peonies), knotted macramé-style net border and very long silk fringe, typical mantón de Manila construction.”

• Qipao / cheongsam · China · East AsiaLook 29

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  “Fitted red bodice with high standing collar, short cap sleeves and close cheongsam cut, cropped to an asymmetric diagonal hem over a separate skirt.”

• Chinese silk pictorial embroidery · China · East AsiaLook 7

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  “Black square chest panel with pale silk-embroidered pagodas, pines and birds in a landscape scene, recalling Chinese pictorial or export silk embroidery and rank-badge placement.”

• Chinese mother-of-pearl appliqué ornaments · China · East AsiaLook 12

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  “Carved mother-of-pearl peonies, ruyi-shaped plaque, square-holed cash coins and pearl strands applied as decoration, echoing Chinese export carved shell and auspicious ornaments.”

• Chinese cash coin motif · China · East AsiaLook 12

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  “Round coin discs with central square holes, the form of traditional Chinese cash coins, used as button-like and clustered decoration.”

• Haori · Japan · East AsiaLook 1

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  “Collarless open coat with continuous neckband running down the front edges, wide straight-cut sleeves and a T-shaped body, reworked in navy denim at knee length.”

• Chinese bamboo ink-painting panels · China · East AsiaLook 9

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  “Inset pale panels painted with bamboo stalks and leaves in a soft ink-wash style, framed like scroll or screen paintings within beaded borders.”

• Auspicious cloud and blossom motif · China · East AsiaLook 7

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  “Black yoke embroidered with stylised curling white cloud forms and pink plum or cherry blossom sprays, typical of Chinese decorative embroidery vocabulary.”