This summer, for the reopening of the Dior boutique in Shanghai, the house of Dior called up Quentin Shih to produce a series of images, using the last couture collection, that would be displayed in the boutiques windows. Chinese photographer already collaborated with Dior in 2008 for “Dior with Chinese Contemporay Artists” with his series „The Stranger in the Glass Box“ which was assigned by the Hasselblad Masters Award in fine arts. Shih plays with surreal beauty and creates oil painting-style compositions by retouching his subjects, and in this case using one Chinese stereotype and repeating it in a pattern to reinforce the rigor and uniformity of Chinese mass culture.

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