Divas who dared
By Mathew Scott |
HK EDITION |
Updated: 2023-08-25 14:30
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Titled Madame Song: Pioneering Art and Fashion in China, the exhibition at M+ begins with a showcasing of clothes from her days working with Cardin and personal items that help tell her story. It continues through her "artist" and "entrepreneur" periods, and her work contributing to China's rising avant-garde movement in the 1980s. Next it takes visitors through Song's time as a "fashionista" and "cultural ambassador" - the phases during which she helped to promote the idea of Chinese society in the West. Overall the exhibition provides a sense of intimacy with a subject who thrived at a time that in so many ways already feels like another age.
