When Western Fashion Brands Explore Eastern Aesthetics

A new exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art showcases China’s centuries-long influence on Western style. China: Through the Looking Glass features 500 years of European luxury goods, including a Roberto Cavalli evening gown and the 14th-century Ming dynasty vase that inspired its blue-and-white pattern and Paul Poiret’s 1911 hobble skirts, an odd Western fusion [&hellip