Battle For Brocade (东方云裳)

Nanjing is world famous for the royal fashion fabric, brocade. Used to make dragon robes for Chinese emperors, the Nanjing brocade is one of the most expensive fabrics in the world. As China modernizes and opens up to the world, the old-school masters and the new-school thinkers at the Nanjing Brocade Museum are having a debate - should the Nanjing brocade be 100% purely hand-made and stick to its roots or should it be computerized and mass produced for the modern consumers? The story also follows Laurence Xu, one of China's top fashion designers as he is on a mission to blend Western haute couture with ancient Chinese brocade designs.

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