Review: Guo Pei: Fashion, art, fantasy from a creative genius

Guo Pei exploded onto the Western fashion scene with this Yellow Queen creation, first worn by Rihanna at the Met Gala in New York in 2015. (Image: Supplied)

Helen van Berkel

Sun, 07 Apr 2024

Fashion, Oscar Wilde once said, is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. But the playwright would have been struck dumb as soon as he stepped over the threshold of the Guo Pei: Fashion, Art, Fantasy exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (on until May 5). More than 60 works by the woman Fashion NZ referred to as the greatest living couturist are on show, some for the first time ever. (Image: heartofthecity.co.nz)The artworks – “garments” doesn’t be...

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