Bent over a magenta chiffon fabric, an elderly Hong Kong tailor wearing thick glasses meticulously stitched on embroidered ...

That bit of stagecraft set the scene for a collection that showed Ghesquière in fine form, bricolaging his usual Orlando-like ...

She invited several skilled cheongsam tailors she had worked with ... techniques to embroider patterns left by the elders onto the clothing." Furthermore, she delved into the more primitive ...

whose workshop walls are plastered with photos of beauty pageant queens wearing his dresses. Western fashion became popular ...

With about 10 more dresses to finish, Yan hesitated to give an exact closing day for his tiny workshop located in the ...

Yan Kar-man is one of Hong Kong's oldest master tailors of the cheongsam, an elegant, high-collared Chinese dress recognisable for its form-fitting silhouette With about 10 more dresses to finish ...

With about 10 more dresses to finish ... At that time, the trade for cheongsam was so common and stable that Yan recalled a plain design would cost "just a few (Hong Kong) dollars".

At 88, Yan Kar-man is one of Hong Kong's few remaining master tailors of the cheongsam, a dress recognisable for its form-fitting silhouette and which was famously featured in Wong Kar-wai's film ...

working to transform the shimmering material into an elegant, high-collared Chinese dress known as a cheongsam.