Can You Make Traditional Chinese Clothes Cool?

Traditional Chinese clothes like qipaos and tang suits invoke a certain “Lunar New Year” sort of look. But does it have to be so? Jason Mui and Lai On-ying, of Hong Kong fashion design house Yat Pit, are hoping to change things, and bring traditional Chinese design back to the streets.

0:00 Why are we not wearing qipaos everyday?
1:00 Meet Yat Pit
2:51 The Qing dynasty-inspired first collection
3:35 The creative process
4:36 Future of Chinese fashion

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Producer: Jessica Novia
Videographer: Nicholas Ko and Tiffany Ip
Editor: Joel Roche


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