“The history of the cheongsam is so riddled with appropriation and re-appropriation and redesign and the conflict between practicality and high-end fashion that despite the fact that it’s often known merely as “the Chinese dress”, there isn’t really any such thing as “the original cheongsam” to work from. Which I guess was sort of the point of this third and final theme in Wu’s collection: the inauthentic 1930s Hollywood portrayal of Chinese fashion in the form of luxurious Shanghai eveningwear.” — from the Shanghai Express-themed section of Jason Wu’s Fall 2012 collection.