M+ X SHANGHAI TANG ‘Madame Song: Pioneering Art and Fashion in China’ Exhibition Opening Ceremony – Fashion Show on 27 July, 2023

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 5 August 2023 – On 27^th July, 2023, M+, Asia’s first international museum of latest visible tradition within the West Kowloon Cultural District, invited over 600 company to inaugurate the first-ever museum exhibition on the earth devoted to Music Huai-Kuei—broadly identified throughout her lifetime as Madame Music. The exhibition was open to the general public on 29^th July, 2023.

On the opening ceremony, M+ collaborated with style model Shanghai Tang to current a style present, inviting company to reminisce on Madame Music’s lifelong dedication to advertise China’s tradition to the world. Synonymous with the concept of ‘East meets West’, Shanghai Tang paired up their imperial tailoring assortment with Madame Music’s a number of identities—artist, entrepreneur, fashionista, and cultural ambassador. Shanghai Tang’s founder the late Sir David Tang was Madame Music’s good buddy, making the style stunt much more significant.

Shanghai Tang showcased bespoke clothes and jewelry collection which characterize the potential of selling cultural exchanges. The movie star fashions on the style runway that evening included Angie Ng, Zelia Zhong, Moon Lau, Christy Lai, Joyce Ngai and extra. On the present’s finale, Suhanya Raffel, Museum Director, M+, led movie star fashions to cheer and rejoice the right opening night. Representatives from the Authorities of the Hong Kong Particular Administrative Area (HKSAR), West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA), M+, Music Huai-Kuei’s relations and sponsors of ‘Madame Music: Pioneering Artwork and Trend in China’ attended the exhibition opening ceremony. Throughout the occasion, Bernard Chan, Chairman of the M+ Board, Betty Fung, Chief Government Officer, West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, Suhanya Raffel, Museum Director, M+, Doryun Chong, Deputy Director, Curatorial, and Chief Curator, M+, and Dr Pi Li, curator of ‘Madame Music: Pioneering Artwork and Trend in China’ and former Senior Curator and Head of Curatorial Affairs, M+ additionally wearing Shanghai Tang to affix within the ceremony.

Madame Music’s extraordinary story provides a lens via which the viewers can admire the numerous transformation of China’s visible tradition after the nation’s reform and opening-up to the world. Centred across the life and instances of Music Huai-Kuei, the exhibition will function greater than 320 objects to relate Music’s fascinating biography and her underestimated affect on remodeling China throughout the interval of reform and opening-up within the Nineteen Eighties right into a cosmopolitan and culturally numerous society right this moment.

In July 2023, Shanghai Tang launched a pop-up retailer at The M+ Store. Along with showcasing the house gadgets, garments, purses, and equipment of the model, Shanghai Tang additionally chosen a collection of artworks and artist collaborated merchandise which are completely bought in restricted portions at The M+ Store. SHANGHAI TANG+ pop-up area is featured on the store subsequent to the museum’s Artist Sq. Entrance, specifically adorned with Shanghai Tang’s iconic fluorescent colors. Shanghai Tang believes that the image “+” represents the various and inclusive nature of the collaboration, pointing not solely to the visible cultural varieties that M+ has at all times conveyed, but additionally to a number of designs fastidiously curated for the creative pop-up. The model hopes that the image “+”brings extra potentials for style, artwork, way of life, and worldwide cultural exchanges.

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About SHANGHAI TANG

SHANGHAI TANG was established by Sir David Tang KBE, in Hong Kong in 1994. The model title adopts the transliteration of ‘Shanghai Bund’ in Chinese language and humorously combines it with the English pronunciation of the founder’s surname ‘Tang’. Impressed by the romance and opulence of the 1930’s Shanghai Bund, Sir David Tang opened a Chinese language-style tailor store in Hong Kong devoted to preserving the standard craftsmanship of Chinese language tailoring.

SHANGHAI TANG is famend for combining distinctive design ideas with conventional Chinese language parts. Modern fabrication and daring colors are utilized with conventional Chinese language craftsmanship to create a brand new modern oriental aesthetic. Through the years, many worldwide celebrities have favoured the model together with the late Princess Diana, Gong Li, Nicole Kidman, Kate Moss, and Sammi Cheng, to call a number of. The model pays consideration to the significance of artwork to Chinese language tradition, and repeatedly collaborates with well-known Chinese language modern artists, corresponding to Liu Ye, Xu Bing, and many others., making artwork one of many core values of SHANGHAI TANG.

Immediately, SHANGHAI TANG remains to be main the beautiful oriental way of life, adhering to the core idea of ‘Make Life a Celebration’. By means of conventional Chinese language designs, delicate craftsmanship, high-quality merchandise and glorious providers, SHANGHAI TANG has prospered right into a recognizable Chinese language model and extends the attract of latest oriental aesthetics to varied merchandise and artwork collaborations. The model’s product line contains bespoke tailoring providers, ready-to-wear, equipment, jewelry, homeware and artworks.