Beijing designer Guo Pei's fashion dream exhibition in Auckland

The Auckland Art Gallery in the city centre is a white castle-style building that often hosts regular and themed exhibitions. When we visited, we caught the 'Fashion, Art, Fantasy' exhibition by Beijing designer Guo Pei (female, born in 1967). The beautiful costumes used luxurious fabrics, hand-embroidered with metal hollowing, lace, and Swarovski crystals and rhinestones, presenting works that were rich in Chinese style and contained exotic patterns and colours. Works with themes such as 'Big Gold', 'Reincarnation', 'East Palace', 'Encounter' blurred the boundaries of fashion, sculpture, and stage art, allowing the audience to experience ingenious design and superb craftsmanship. According to the introduction, some individual works took up to 50,000 hours to create. The art gallery's top floor has a children's activity room that provides materials for free for hands-on craft making. The Auckland Art Gallery is located in the city centre and is easy to find.