Huishan Zhang Resort 2025

Huishan Zhang loves a glamorous muse almost as much as he loves a good story. In Song Huai-Kuei—the late Chinese artist and socialite who was better known as Madame Song, a pivotal figure who introduced Pierre Cardin to China and brought European designers into the wardrobes of Chinese women when such a thing was unheard of—he found both. Song’s legacy was celebrated in an exhibition last year at Hong Kong’s M+ museum, and one of Zhang’s cheongsam dresses was included as part of a section on contemporary Chinese designers, leading him to base this resort collection on her influence. “In my imagination, if she were still alive today, she could become our client and I could make her dresses,” he said, speaking from Qingdao over a video call to his boutique in London’s Mount Street.