The qipao is the signature dress of Shanghai, China. Here’s where to find the best qipao tailors in the city.

Shanghai tailors are hoping today’s young Chinese woman can help make the qipao, or cheongsam popular again, but with less traditional detailing, as seen at a recent Shanghai fashion show.

Shanghai tailors keep qipao tradition alive, fashionable A tailor at a Qipao studio in Shanghai on December 2, 2021. AFP Zhou Zhuguang surveys his Shanghai workshop and rows of workers meticulously ...

Chu Hongsheng first started crafting qipao, the body-hugging Chinese dress, in the 1930s, an era where it enjoyed immense popularity and was seen as a symbol of sophistication and style.

SHANGHAI, July 14 (Xinhua) — When she was young, Liu Peizhu preferred to wear Western clothes. It was not until 2010, when she took a cruise to Japan with a model team in traditional Qipao dress ...

Zhou Zhuguang surveys his Shanghai workshop and rows of workers meticulously stitching high-collared Chinese dresses known as qipao, some of which sell for nearly $5,000. "It's a highly skilled ...

Drawing on traditional design elements, the high-collared qipao dress originated in Shanghai around a century ago, but disappeared after the Communist Party took power in 1949. It's now making a ...

Zhou Zhuguang surveys his Shanghai workshop and rows of workers meticulously stitching high-collared Chinese dresses known as qipao, some of which sell for nearly $5,000.

Zhou Zhuguang surveys his Shanghai workshop and rows of workers meticulously stitching high-collared Chinese dresses known as qipao, some of which sell for nearly $5,000. "It's a highly skilled craft, ...

Zhou Zhuguang surveys his Shanghai workshop and rows of workers meticulously stitching high-collared Chinese dresses known as qipao, some of which sell for nearly $5,000.

Zhou Zhuguang surveys his Shanghai workshop and rows of workers meticulously stitching high-collared Chinese dresses known as qipao, some of which sell for nearly $5,000. "It's a highly skilled ...

Zhou Zhuguang surveys his Shanghai workshop and rows of workers meticulously stitching high-collared Chinese dresses known as qipao, some of which sell for nearly $5,000.