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Discover the Chinese designer who dressed Rihanna, Beyoncé and Lady Gaga, by checking out M+ at Night’s Guo Pei special

Hong Kong’s leading art museum is coming alive after dark with Couture Rhapsody, a one-off collision of music, art and fashion themed around the blockbuster ‘Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination’ exhibition

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The M+ at Night concept combines music with museum exhibits after dark. Photo: M+

M+ continues its popular M+ at Night event series next Friday, staging a collaboration with Warner Music Asia to transform the museum into a warren of visual and musical experiences.

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On October 4, Couture Rhapsody will celebrate the intersection of fashion and music, aligning with the museum’s current exhibition, “Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination”, a retrospective on China’s leading couture designer.

Guo, whose career spans close to three decades, contributed 40-plus haute-couture pieces to this first major exhibition of her work produced in China. Having dressed everyone from Rihanna, Beyoncé and Lady Gaga to Fan Bingbing and Zhang Ziyi, Guo often incorporates elements of Chinese heritage into her work, such as traditional embroidery techniques and motifs, while adapting to contemporary fashion trends.

One of the hottest names in town, singer Panther Chan headlines the music programme at M+ at Night. Photo: M+
One of the hottest names in town, singer Panther Chan headlines the music programme at M+ at Night. Photo: M+

Guided tours of the exhibition will be held at regular intervals throughout the night, while elsewhere at M+ a line-up of talented performers under the Warner Music umbrella are slated to perform, including Hong Kong singer-songwriters Panther Chan, Gigi Cheung and Lewsz, alongside Singaporean singer-songwriter-actor Nathan Hartono.

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