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In director Wong Kar Wai’s 2000 masterpiece “In The Mood for Love”, countless people have been awestricken by the elegant #qipao dresses worn by lead actress Maggie Cheung. The maker of those dresses was master tailor Leung Long Kong who today, aged 84, is still working in the city full-time. In this video, we look at how he creates his garments to fully bring out the gracefulness of the women that wear them.
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In This Story: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.