Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy – Legion of Honor Exhibit

Come to the JCCSF and get ready to learn about the hot new exhibit at the Legion of Honor. Through exquisite craftsmanship, lavish embroidery, and unconventional dressmaking techniques, designer Guo Pei creates a couture fantasy that fuses the influences of China’s imperial past with export art, the grandeur of European court life, architecture, and the botanical world. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are pleased to celebrate Guo Pei’s extraordinary designs with Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy, the first comprehensive exhibition of her groundbreaking work. The exhibition includes more than 80 ensembles from the past two decades, highlighting the designer’s most important fashion collections, shown on Beijing and Paris runways, including many designs that have never been shown to the public.

Maureen Murray Fox received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Davis. She spent more than thirty years working for IBM and held a variety of positions in sales and management, including as Branch Manager of the San Francisco downtown office. To add balance to her life and as an antidote to computers and sales quotas, Maureen got involved with the San Francisco Auxiliary of the Fine Arts Museum. After retiring from IBM, Maureen decided to deepen her connection to the Museums and learn more about art by training to be a docent. Maureen is a native San Franciscan and is the mother of two daughters and her grandson is a 6th generation San Franciscan.