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. 

AWAKENING THE LIONS

  The Lion Dance is a form of traditional dance in Chinese culture and other Asian countries in which performers mimic a lion's movement...