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The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco with the support of the Asian Couture Federation is presenting the remarkable exhibition of Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy. Legion of Honor Museum April 16 - September 5, 2022 It is a creative awakening to delve into the world of this innovative and genius couture designer, Guo Pei, who bridges the divide between couture fashion and art. Her esthetic philosophy delves not only into the roots and traditions of China but the design innovations of Renaissance and eighteenth-century Europe. Her time-consuming craft (one dress did indeed take 50 000 hours to create) includes Chinese design elements, Catholic liturgical elements, botanical motifs, animals, architectural motifs, and spiritual quests. She says: “Haute couture is not made for commercial gain, but more for a kind of inner…
Dr. Frank Cintamani is a Singapore-based entrepreneur and philanthropist for entertainment and the arts. Of Indonesian and Chinese descent, he has worked with some of Asia’s most prominent families on wealth planning and succession. After living in the UK for 20 years, Dr. Cintamani settled in Singapore where he launched the Asian Couture Federation (AFC) in 2013, an organization to inspire, support, and promote the best design and fashion talent both in Asia and the world. Due to his long-standing dedication to the Asian and international fashion industries, Dr. Cintamani has established several Asian regional talents, including couture designer Guo Pei. He is also one of three founders of the new fashion platform Couturissimo, launched in Paris in 2016. The platform’s objective is to invite exceptional couture designers to create…
Guo Pei is China’s most renowned couturier. For over 20 years, she has been dressing celebrities, royalty, and the political elite. Guo Pei was born in Beijing in 1967 to two members of China’s Communist Party; her father was a former battalion leader of the People’s Army and her mother was a kindergarten teacher. She recalls her father having thrown away her sketches and paintings as a child. Her grandmother though, a great influence, told stories of the beautiful clothes she once owned but was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. She told stories of the pleasure and beauty of embroidered flowers and butterfly wings. Guo got her actual start in sewing at the age of 2, helping her mother make clothes for the winter; this task and her grandmother’s stories…
Thomas P. Campbell is a distinguished art historian educated at Oxford, the Courtauld Institute, and the University of London. He joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1995 where he organized several acclaimed tapestry exhibitions. He also served as Supervising Curator of The Antonio Ratti Textile Center, which houses the Museum’s encyclopedic collection of 36,000 textiles and is one of the preeminent centers of textile studies in the world. During Mr. Campbell’s tenure as Director and CEO at the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum gained national and international recognition not only through the dozens of exhibitions overseen by Mr. Campbell but also through conservation exchanges in the Middle East and India, loan exhibitions in China, Japan and Brazil, the launching of a biannual global museum directors’ colloquium and a…
Jill D’Alessandro is the curator in charge of Costume and Textile Arts at The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. In her position, she oversees the collection of costumes and textiles from 125 countries worldwide. As a curator in charge, she manages a collection of 14,000 textiles and costumes from Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas. She is responsible for the research and development of in-house and traveling exhibitions. She is responsible for the development of the costume and textile collection including making acquisitions and overseeing de-accessioning as well as for the programming in the educational gallery and the creation of interpretative materials. In addition, Jill D’Alessandro works closely with the education department in the development and implementation of symposiums, lecture series, public programs, and audio tours. D’Alessandro earned…
This stunning exhibition offers awe-inspiring gowns of Guo Pei’s more than 80 ensembles from the past two decades highlighting the designer’s most important fashion collections (shown on Beijing and Paris runways), including many designs that have never before been shown to the public. These are juxtaposed with works from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s art collections which make evident the art’s historical roots of the Sino-European object, a hybrid and popular form dating to the 17th century. Guo Pei continues to expand on this practice, amplifying the fusion of Chinese art with diverse traditions and styles through her fantastical design approach and global reach. “Drawing inspiration from European and Chinese artistic traditions, Guo Pei’s creations blur the boundaries between art and fashion. Displayed in a neoclassical architectural context…
