Fashioning Chinese Women from Empire to Modernity
This program is co-sponsored by The China Society of Southern California and the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California.
Michaela Hansen, the curator of the current exhibition at LACMA, will discuss a century of evolution from of Chinese dresses from the late Qing Dynasty. According to our speaker, “The collection documents this period of incredible change that women are experiencing.” She will discuss the social liberation and mobility many women experienced following the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1912.
Speaker Bio:
Michaela Hansen received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Apparel Design at Rhode Island School of Design and a Master of Design, Fashion Design at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was on the curatorial staff at LACMA for 10 years and has been an independent curator based in Connecticut since 2023.