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As they moved in, the artists turned the district into studio space and galleries, and it’s now full of restaurants, boutiques, and bookstores, drawing comparisons to the heyday of New York City’s SoHo. In a former manufacturing zone, she found the 798 Art District, a community of artists who had been pushed to the edge of the city in part because their remarkable work was frowned on by the government. But she took away as much if not more from the Beijing of the 21 st century.
Like most first-time visitors, she checked off all the city’s mandatory sites, from the Forbidden City, seat of China’s power structure for more than 500 years, to the Summer Palace, an imperial garden set by a lake and filled with ornate temples, pavilions, and bridges dating back to the 18th century. The contemporary artists and exhibitions provided inspiration for her recent collection. Misha Nonoo squats down to fit inside a human cutout in the 798 Art District. Production of civilian and military equipment begins at one of the most advanced factories in China.Īfter 10 years of operation the factory is divided into six sub-factories, of which 798 is the largest.īeijing’s contemporary artists begin working in run-down houses near the Summer Palace.īeijing’s Central Academy for Fine Arts sets up studio space in the now abandoned factory.ħ98 Space Gallery opens in the Bauhaus-influenced, 1,200-square-meter symbolic center of the district. Groundbreaking on Joint Factory 718, a partnership between East Germany and China. How do you feel in those moments? And how does that inspire and inflect the collection? So it’s more of an overall energy.”ĮXPLORING BEIJING 798 Art District - Timeline “I think that sometimes it’s about being this girl who travels to different places and sometimes can’t speak the language, can’t communicate. Her travels are adventures with a purpose. She has loved traveling ever since, and those travels show up in her work-not so much in specific local references as in her embrace of novelty and the effects of intentional dislocation. “My mother’s attitude was roll ’er up and let’s go!” she recalls with a laugh. Born in Bahrain and raised in London as the only child of an Iraqi father and peripatetic English mother, she started traveling before she could walk. It suggests, for one thing, that she has an enormous comfort zone, which makes sense. Given her range, from boyish culottes and Ts to hand-painted silk evening gowns, that says a lot about her.
Unlike most fashion designers, Misha Nonoo seems to belong in everything she makes.
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