Saturday, 1 January 2022

East Meets West | With Meg Tsai | Fashion Film


For the first blog post of 2022, I feature a short fashion film titled "East Meets West" with Meg Tsai as the ideal exemplar to personify the fusion of Eastern and Western cultures and aesthetics. 

Wearing a quintessential Chinese cheongsam (or qi pao) against the typical backdrops of NYC's SoHo and modern streetwear in its Chinatown streets underscores how the "city that never sleeps" is the world's prime melting pot of traditions, cultures, styles and characteristics...and will always be.

To accompany the images, I chose "The Ramble", a 1929 jazzy number. 

The Canal Street Hustle

Visitors are drawn to Canal Street by the promise of luxury bargains—such as “designer” bags, "Rolex" watches and "Gucci...