Looking for a some color to brighten a long, dreary winter? The Museum of Chinese in America is having it's Lunar New Year Flower Market on February 2, 3 and 4. I've never been to this event, but it sounds really beautiful, with lots of flowers as well as artist demonstrations.
The museum itself has a collection of dresses that sounds amazing, but it looks like we'll have to wait until 2010 to see it:
Cheongsam (Qi Pao) Collection
Graciously donated by Pamela Chen, this collection includes 77 Chinese dresses (cheongsam / qi pao) custom-tailored in the 1930s and 1940s, once owned by her mother Phoebe Shou-Heng Chen (1917-1993). These exquisite dresses express Chinese design and fashion sensibilities, and will be featured in an upcoming 2010 exhibition, That Chinese Dress: Fashion and Identity Through the Cheongsam. The exhibition will explore Chinese traditions, heritage and design, asking such questions as: How does fashion help communities preserve family traditions, identity, and culture? How have Chinese American designers expressed their own cultural positioning/identities through their work? What is the relationship between fashion trends and East-West politics?