Mao's New Suit
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Mao's New Suit

DirectorSally Ingleton

China's door has been opened and so have people's wardrobes.

1997
51 min
Documentary

For decades people in China modelled themselves on Chairman Mao who wore a simple worker’s outfit in blue or grey, known as the ‘Mao Suit’. MAO’S NEW SUIT charts the course of two Beijing fashion designers amidst the staging of their first collection in Shanghai’s annual Fashion Week.

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