When the 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) opened at Beijing’s Shougang Park on September 9, drawing about 90 countries and international organizations, a first-time exhibitor from Chengdu used the stage to put Sichuan’s handwoven and embroidered couture in front of international buyers. The West China Haute Couture Center occupied its own […]
The Shenzhen fashion house HUI showed its Spring/Summer 2027 collection, The Fan Code, on the evening of September 27 local time in Italy, at Via Meravigli 7 in central Milan. The venue is Palazzo Turati, an 1880 neo-Renaissance building that now houses the Milan campus of Istituto Marangoni. The campus conversion kept the frescoed rooms, […]
On September 25, the “Return to Yunshuiyao, Happy Mountain Town” 2026 Nanjing County (南靖) Second Intangible Heritage Carnival and its “four dishes and one soup” food consumption event opened at the Yunshuiyao scenic area in Nanjing County, Zhangzhou, Fujian, and ran through September 27. According to People’s Daily’s Fujian channel, the three-day programme made “four […]
A single skilled weaver on a traditional leno loom could once produce only a few centimetres of cloth in a day. That figure is the reason Hualuo silk, an open-weave fabric prized for its airy hand, stayed a boutique material for most of its modern life. Shaoxing Zhongge Textile has spent years on the arithmetic. […]
On the morning of September 23, five-colour silk thread caught the gallery lights on the fourth floor of the Shanghai Museum of Textile and Costume. The museum sits on the Yan’an Road campus of Donghua University, and several works on its walls had already travelled a diplomatic route. That morning the Shanghai leg of “Innovation […]
In the last snow of Against the Current (兰香如故), Zhao Xingtang (赵星棠) kneels with torn sleeves and a sealed letter that could destroy the Lin family (林家). She pushes it into Xu Lanxiang’s (许兰香) hand. No scream. No oath of revenge. Only a question: “May I call you Xingtang?” It lands like a soft blade. […]
Court dramas often make loyalty look noble. Against the Current (兰香如故) makes it dangerous. The title suggests tenderness, but the politics are brutal. Marriage, military service, and household order all become tools of survival. Lin Zhaoxiang (林昭祥) has served two emperors and spent decades in the Ministry of Personnel. He has watched proud families build […]
When Xie Qingyuan (谢清圆) returns to Xie Manor, she does not come as a grateful daughter. She comes with questions. Her mother died in a house where every smile hides a receipt. Concubine Lian (莲) looks frail, yet she raised Xie Qinghe (谢清和) well and survived years of quiet weather. Old Madam Xie watches from […]
In Against the Current (兰香如故), Lin Xiuru (林绣茹) looks like the woman everyone should envy. She begins as a neglected daughter of a concubine, then becomes the wife of Yongchang Marquis (永昌侯) and earns a first-rank title. Fine clothes, respectful servants, a powerful household—she gets what she once prayed for. Yet the ending leaves a […]
When Lu Yuxiao (卢昱晓) appears in the costume drama Revenge (刺棠), her character Su Luowei (苏落薇) wears a headpiece that pulls the eye at once. Flat plaques sit beside her temples. Strings of beads drop from them and brush her cheeks. Some viewers joked that she had hung clothing tags from her hair. The shape is […]
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