Madame Mao's Dowry: Fashionable history lesson

Madame Mao’s Dowry takes a novel approach to the legacy of Chairman Mao, immortalizing the Cultural Revolution in terms of its contribution to early Chinese contemporary design. Think of it as a fashionable history lesson.

A strikingly curated collection of original propaganda posters, archival photographs, statues, recordings and woodblock prints from the period are displayed on provincial antique furniture and ancestral shrines.

Alongside these are revolution era chic clothing and accessories by Dowry's designers and other local artists that show the great leaps forward in Chinese design over the last 30 years.

Madame Mao’s Dowry is one "great leap forward"that we can get behind.