While Paris woke up to a grey and overcast start on day two of Haute Couture Week, the mood on the runways was anything but muted. Chanel showed a pared-back and meditative collection, and other ...

They decorated in shades of blue, white, and sage with a custom lattice floral escort card display that was Sara’s favorite design detail, and a custom bar design that was Andrew’s. The reception ...

Among the treasures on display are a resplendent Ming Dynasty women's blue robe with gold-trimmed collar, its fabric sheer as cicada wings, and a blue-and-white porcelain bowl with gilded clover ...

The blue and white chinoiserie collection is particularly impressive, with patterns that have influenced designers for hundreds of years. For those more interested in the practical than the decorative ...

A show at the Met offers a feminist revision of Chinoiserie, a decorative style that swept through Europe in the age of empires and seeded stereotypes of Asian women.

Chinoiserie was not only a style but an ideology. The arrival of blue-and-white porcelain in Europe some 500 years ago (first as ballast on merchant ships from China) ignited an obsession with the ...

Here, chinoiserie porcelain inspired a blue-and-white approach. Arched lattice panels screen the area and serve as the walls, while a wooden chandelier hangs from branches that stretch overhead, ...

Silver and brocade mingle with raw wood and rattan. A sepia chinoiserie mural runs along the walls of the reception, where a fireplace with a deep-blue mantle and robustly veined marble hearth is ...

The decorations imitate Chinese porcelain style, with twelve spiraled bands of decoration in alternating red with white patterns and white with blue patterns.

All’s well in the realm of haute couture, where questions of wearability are hardly the most pressing. January’s reality-suspending spring/summer 2025 collections combined out-of-this-world techniques ...