Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy Exhibition Catalogue

$29.99 at de Young Museum.

Guo Pei (b. 1967), China’s premier couturier and one of the world’s most innovative fashion designers, has astonished runway audiences from Beijing to Paris for more than twenty-five years. She is recognized for her consummate craftsmanship, lavish embroidery, and imaginative dressmaking techniques as well as for her elaborate and theatrical runway presentations. Her complex and visually dazzling work is inspired by sources as varied as China’s imperial past, export art, European court life and architecture…