Divas who dared
By Mathew Scott |
HK EDITION |
Updated: 2023-08-25 14:30
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One of Hong Kong's most audience-oriented cultural institutions, the M+ museum, is also paying tribute to an icon of the arts. Song Huai-kuei (1937-2006), aka Madame Song, helped introduce concepts of high fashion to China as the country started opening up to the world in the 1980s. Song acted like a cultural bridge. On one hand, she was helping fashion heavyweights such as Pierre Cardin break into the Chinese market. On the other, as the front-of-the-house hostess of Maxim's in Beijing, she helped turn the art-nouveau-style restaurant into a center of activity for the country's filmmakers, writers, models and fashion designers.
