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For Hongkongers, a beautifully crafted kwan kwa, or traditional Chinese wedding dress, symbolises love, happiness and power. Red satin often provides the background for a rich embroidery of silver and gold threads, with each set taking three months to a year to complete. Wing Lung Embroidery in Hong Kong has been selling Chinese wedding gowns in Kowloon’s Shanghai Street for 50 years. Its owner, second-generation wedding seamstress Ng Lan Fa, has been running the family business for more than a decade. She explains why they only sell the traditional dragon and phoenix design and why the black kwan kwa is no longer in fashion.

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