{"id":89896,"date":"2026-10-03T12:39:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T04:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=89896"},"modified":"2026-10-03T12:39:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T04:39:03","slug":"is-adopting-chinese-fashion-appropriation-or-appreciation-artisans-weigh-in-on-the-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=89896","title":{"rendered":"Is adopting Chinese fashion appropriation or appreciation? Artisans weigh in on the debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/02\/b52b5021-88a2-4c84-860a-b71379a7eba9_96c3d142.jpg?itok=SwM9nRlS&amp;v=1790913389\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As international fashion companies increasingly incorporate traditional Chinese design elements into their collections, accusations of cultural appropriation have flooded social media.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">In recent years, brands such as Zara and Adidas have been criticised for adopting Chinese tailoring features such as Mandarin collars and <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">pankou<\/em><\/span>, or frog buttons. While Zara drew backlash for mislabelling these elements as generic \u201cfireman clasps\u201d without acknowledging their heritage, Adidas sparked debate over how it framed and marketed its \u201cNew Chinese Style\u201d collections to global audiences.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But what do the masters and artisans of these centuries-old crafts actually think?<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Miru Wong Ka-lam is the third-generation owner of <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Sindart<\/span>, a shop in Jordan, Kowloon, that offers a refreshingly nuanced perspective. Founded by her grandfather in 1958, it is one of Hong Kong\u2019s last handmade embroidered shoe shops.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/fashion-beauty\/article\/3369501\/adopting-chinese-fashion-appropriation-or-appreciation-artisans-weigh-debate?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As international fashion companies increasingly incorporate traditional Chinese design elements into their collections, accusations of cultural appropriation have flooded social media. In recent years, brands&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1097,15341,31020,21174,107,1600,354,2853],"class_list":["post-89896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-adopting","tag-appreciation","tag-appropriation","tag-artisans","tag-chinese","tag-debate","tag-fashion","tag-weigh","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}