Sunday, November 21, 2010

Shanghai Fashionistas: The Thirties

I just discovered these fabulous vintage Shanghai fashion illustrations on eBay, my favorite hunting ground for ephemeral treasures. They're allegedly from a 1930 magazine. To see the illustrations on the backside of these prints or to buy them for yourself, click here and here.





And while we're on the subject of Chinese fashion, let me recommend two items I recently enjoyed: Antonia Finnane's book Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, Nation (2008); and Mao's New Suit (1997), Sally Ingleton's documentary about pioneering designers Sun Jian and Guo Pei.

2 comments:

Dev said...

That's cool Dave, thanks for sharing, Shanghai is defintely the first wave for Mod fahsion trend in the Chinese world!!

duriandave said...

Hi Dev! There's a fashion illustrator whose work appeared in Young Companion that I really like. I wish there was a book collecting these wonderful drawings.