Guo Pei opened her Beijing-based fashion company, Rose Studio, in 1997 after working as a designer for more than a decade. Since then, she has become one of China’s most famous haute couturiers. Earlier this year, Grammy Award-winning singer Rihanna wore one of Ms. Guo’s designs, a canary-yellow cape gown, to a ball at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The 55-pound dress took a team of seamstresses 50,000 hours over two years to make. Vogue magazine put a photo of the dress on the cover of its Met Gala special edition, bringing Ms. Guo international fame in the fashion world.

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