GUO PEI
“I love Haute Couture,
because she is a kind of halt of life. Haute Couture doesn’t like ready-to-wear
which prevails simply and also can be forgotten quickly. I hope my work could
be showpiece as museum collection, be treasure as palace jewelry, and be
masterpiece that will be handed on from age to age. Real Haute Couture is
eternal, long-tested, and, many years later, will be a kind of glancing back of
time. By that time, she could have a representation of the lost glories and
residual splendors, and give a reinterpretation of happiness I have had and
niceness I have created.” ——GUO PEI
Guo Pei is the first and only Chinese couture designer approved around the world and promoted the birth of China fashion. Her lifelong passion for Haute Couture is deeply rooted in her childhood. The emotional and artistic understanding of beauty and art fueled her resolution to become what she is today. She is the proud perpetuator of embroidering and painting tradition that goes back thousands of years, and a modern messenger of culture’s treasures. After ten years of working, she decided to fully engage in her creative calling and established the Rose Studio workshop in 1997 and indubitably rose studio represents the best standard of China couture. In 2013, as the promoter of couture in China, Guo Pei was honored by Asian Couture Federation (ACF) as founding member designer and Asian Couturier Extraordinaire Member, plus the only one Chinese designer of Singapore FIDé.
From 2006 to 2012, Guo Pei has held “Saṃsāra”, “CHILDHOOD AND WONDERFUL DREAM FATE”, “THE ARABIAN 1002th NIGHT” and “THE LEGEND OF DRAGON” Haute Couture fashion show and “Chinese Bride” static exhibition. Particularly, Guo Pei invited the world’s famous supermodel Carmen dell’ Orefice to present her works on the show “THE ARABIAN 1002th NIGHT”. As such, she was entrusted with designing the costumes for the 2008 Beijing Olympics medal award ceremony. In recent year, Guo Pei was also invited by worldwide famous museums and exhibitions for showcasing her works. Her “Porcelain” collection and “Dajin” at the New York Metropolitan Museum, as part of the exhibition “China: Through the Looking Glass”. Most of all, the big yellow gown wearing by superstar Rihanna on the red carpet of Met Gala makes Guo Pei in the spotlight and hits the headlines.
Relying on her talent in designing and enthusiasm of fashion industry, the people who have highest status, prestige and wealth becomes her most loyal customers. In 2015, her works impress the guests on the Fashion 4 Development’s First Ladies Annual Luncheon and she brought her legendary elegance to M•A•C cosmetic by accompanying products with “Garden of Soul” couture dresses collection launched in New York.
As a result of twenty years of experience and passion, Guo Pei bring her unique exhibition of thirty dresses, authentic works of art in the prestigious setting of the Arts Décoratifs, reflects Guo Pei's deep desire to mark her presence in Paris during the French Couture week, and expresses her strong will to settle in Paris in July 2015. Inspiringly, Guo Pei earned January show invitation officially announced by La Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture.
Beyond differences in culture and trade, Haute Couture resonates with a childhood dream, an aspiration to perfection born from the contemplation of beauty. This aspiration has never left Guo Pei, who has now settled in Paris to achieve her dream; perfect her skills, nurture her creativity and share her cultural identity.
