Suzy Menkes: Chinese Whispers at The Met — vogue.co.uk

A SLINKY, sequinned dress from Tom Ford's 2004 Saint Laurent show and the same golden sheen on a Chinese emperor's robe from the Eighteenth Century were a dramatic way to open the temple doors on the subject of this year's Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute exhibition: China - Through the Looking Glass. Amidst the Met's Chinese Galleries, I was stunned at the sight of Sarah Burton's Ming-inspired dress for Alexander McQueen. Her work, like the blue-and-white patterned sheath from Roberto Cavalli, was displayed beside a porcelain jar with a cobalt-blue dragon from the early Fifteenth Century.

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