Dress history has an awkward problem that its exhibitions rarely show: the same garment can be named three ways across three dynasties, and the same sleeve can be drawn convincingly at a shape the fabric could never hold. On 16 October, the 2026 International Symposium on Chinese Ethnic Costume Culture met in Beijing to argue […]
Steam does something to rice that no oven imitates. At the Zhuanqiao cake fair in Shanghai’s Minhang district, the smell inside the marquee is wet fir and hot sugar, and the queue for it forms at eight in the morning. The event, an annual Double Ninth folk-culture programme, ran from 16 to 18 October at […]
Autumn-winter 2026 collections in the Neo-Chinese category changed their specification sheets before they changed their patterns. The Mamianqun hem moved from ankle to mid-calf, the standing collar came down to three or four centimetres, and the Pankou left the placket as a detachable module. Read as styling, these look like taste. Read as production documents, […]
A leather bag is a poor place to start a lecture on the Central Plains. That, in short, is what one Chinese label learned in Paris. On 10 October, inside the M SPACE talk programme at Shanghai Fashion Week, a forum convened by Yicai gathered three brands from unrelated corners of the market, a bag […]
The chestnut sellers are back at the east gate, and the ridge behind them has started to turn. Beijing’s Xishan National Forest Park opened its fifteenth Red Leaf Culture Festival on 15 October, running to 15 November under a theme that pairs maple colour with Guofeng performance. The Guofeng and heritage-craft programme begins with an […]
A mandarin square is a rectangular patch of woven or embroidered silk, made on its own and then sewn to the centre of an official’s chest and back. That last detail is the one most often lost. The bird or beast is not printed onto the robe and not worked directly into the garment’s ground […]
The third chrysanthemum show at Kongwang Hill in Lianyungang opened on October 17 and runs to November 15, combining flower displays with performances, craft challenges and an evening light programme. Nearly 400 varieties and more than 20,000 pots are set out along the hill paths and around the site’s carved stones. Weekend crowds arrived early, […]
Twelve sets of reconstructed clothing went on display at the Jiangxi Institute of Fashion Technology’s costume museum on October 12, the second stop for a project that began in Yanbian. The exhibition, “Liuhe Tongfeng: Reconstructed Dress from the Tomb Mural of Princess Zhenxiao of Balhae (渤海国)”, is funded for 2026 by the China National Arts […]
On October 10 and 11 the Liaoning Provincial Museum hosted a showcase organised by the provincial women’s federation and the provincial federation of industry and commerce, with the women entrepreneurs’ association handling arrangements. More than 100 works by craftswomen from 14 cities were displayed, alongside nearly 18 out-of-province manufacturers and 100 provincial enterprises, with about […]
Rome, October 16. A row of tea tables filled the ground-floor gallery of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s headquarters, laid with celadon cups, glass pitchers and tins of leaf. The occasion was World Food Day, which fell on the same date as the organisation’s 81st anniversary, and the stall sat just outside the hall […]
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