Shanghai fashion week: Couture event returns to pre-pandemic form

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Shanghai is staging one of Asia’s biggest fashion shows, almost a year to the day since the city of 25 million people was placed under lockdown.

Last year’s two-month isolation caused extensive damage, not just to Shanghai but also to the Chinese economy – and beyond.

Al Jazeera’s Florence Looi reports.

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