Through exquisite craftsmanship, lavish embroidery, and unconventional dressmaking techniques, designer Guo Pei creates a couture fantasy that fuses the influences of China’s imperial past with export art, the grandeur of European court life, architecture, and the botanical world. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco is set to celebrate Guo Pei’s extraordinary designs with Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy, April 16 to Sept. 5, 2022, the first comprehensive exhibition of her groundbreaking .