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Wuyong
CHINA · 2007

Wuyong

Jia Zhangke
Chinese textile industry mass production vs craftsmanship labor and working conditions fashion design economic displacement
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Synopsis

Observations of three varied corners of China’s garment industry: workers in a large-scale production line factory; a designer who rallies against the mass-machine-production of clothes and has created the eponymous hand-made collection called ‘Useless’ (Wuyong) for Paris Fashion Week; and finally the simple life of increasingly out-of-work tailors in small town Fengdang.

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