Guo Pei:
Fashioning Imagination
Guo Pei:
Fashioning Imagination
6 Apr 2025
Guo Pei (b. 1967), China’s leading couture artist, combines Chinese cultural heritage with international elements and artistic expression. Guo’s astonishing runway collections have impressed fashion and art audiences alike for almost 30 years. Presenting the first major exhibition of Guo’s work produced in China, M+ showcases her key collections and early designs, highlighting the artist's unique career connecting China and the rest of the world, and the cultural symbols created through her sophisticated and visually dazzling practice. Working with the couturier and her studio, this exhibition presents a selection of garments shown to audiences in the region for the first time, creating a layered dialogue with the M+ Collections around visual imagination and workmanship. The exhibition foregrounds Guo Pei's unique artistic style that resonates with imperial Chinese dress etiquette, European royal fashion, architecture, and the botanical world.
Installation view of Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination, 2024. Photo: Dan Leung © M+, Hong Kong
Installation view of Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination, 2024. © Guo Pei. Photo: Lok Cheng © M+, Hong Kong
Installation view of Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination, 2024. Photo: Dan Leung © M+, Hong Kong
Installation view of Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination, 2024. Photo: Lok Cheng © M+, Hong Kong
Installation view of Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination, 2024. Photo: Dan Leung © M+, Hong Kong
Installation view of Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination, 2024. © Guo Pei. Photo: Lok Cheng © M+, Hong Kong
Installation view of Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination, 2024. Photo: Wilson Lam © M+, Hong Kong
Installation view of Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination, 2024. © Guo Pei. Photo: Lok Cheng © M+, Hong Kong
Installation view of Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination, 2024. Photo: Dan Leung © M+, Hong Kong
Installation view of Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination, 2024. Photo: Dan Leung © M+, Hong Kong
Installation view of Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination, 2024. © Guo Pei. Photo: Lok Cheng © M+, Hong Kong
Installation view of Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination, 2024. Photo: Dan Leung © M+, Hong Kong
Installation view of Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination, 2024. Photo: Lok Cheng © M+, Hong Kong
Installation view of Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination, 2024. © Guo Pei. Photo: Wilson Lam © M+, Hong Kong
Selected Works by Guo Pei and Other Artists
Guo Pei. The Gold Boat from the Elysium collection, 2018. © Guo Pei. Image courtesy of the artist
Tseng Yuho. Hibernal Forest, 1990. M+, Hong Kong. © Yun Zeng. Photo: M+, Hong Kong
Guo Pei. Garden of Soul collection, 2015. © Guo Pei. Courtesy of the artist
Aisha Khalid. West Looks East, 2013. M+, Hong Kong. © Aisha Kahlid. Photo: M+, Hong Kong
Hans Tan. Spotted Nyonya—Vessel with Cover L, 2011. M+, Hong Kong. © Hans Tan. Photo: Lok Cheng © M+, Hong Kong
Guo Pei. Legends collection, 2017. © Guo Pei. Courtesy of the artist
Guo Pei. L’Architecture collection, 2018. © Guo Pei. Courtesy of the artist
Wilson Shieh Ka-ho. HSBC and Friends, 2007. M+, Hong Kong. Gift of the Yiqingzhai Collection, 2014. © Wilson Shieh. Photo: M+, Hong Kong
Guo Pei. Legend of the Dragon collection, 2012. © Guo Pei. Courtesy of the artist
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Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination is curated by Ikko Yokoyama, Lead Curator, Design and Architecture, M+, supported by Wen Bi, Assistant Curator, and Mankit Lai, Curatorial Assistant, in partnership with Guo and her atelier Rose Studio.
Image at top: Guo Pei. The Qing-hua Porcelain from the 1002 Nights collection, 2009. © Guo Pei. Image courtesy of the artist