Fashion in Multiple Chinas

Wessie Ling is Reader in Fashion at Northumbria University and a practising visual artist. She is the author of Fusionable Cheongsam and has written on Chinese fashion for the Encyclopedia of East Asian Design (2016). Current projects include a special issue on Transglobal Fashion in Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture. She is on the Editorial Board of Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion, Beauty and Style. Her works have been exhibited at OVADA in Oxford, at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, and at the Victoria & Albert Museum among others.
Simona Segre Reinach is Professor of Fashion Studies at Bologna University. She is a contributor to the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion and The Fashion History Reader and has written for journals including Fashion Theory, Fashion Practice, and The International Journal of Fashion Studies. In 2013, she curated the exhibit 80's-90's Facing Beauties: Italian Fashion and Japanese Fashion at a Glance at the Museo della citta di Rimini. She is on the Editorial Board of Fashion Theory, The International Journal of Fashion Studies and the Dress Cultures Series at I.B. Tauris.