Where does the mask end and the woman begin?
 
The Shanghai Duality is a wearable work of art — an homage to the renowned contemporary artist Qiu Shengxian, whose provocative portraits in Shanghai’s M50 art district explore identity, contradiction, and the many selves we carry.
 
Embroidered with exceptional care, this headband features the serene face of a woman flanked by her vivid alter egos — one laughing in gold, the other cloaked in blue. It’s a meditation on joy, sorrow, performance, and poise. With each delicate bead, it invites you to honor your full emotional range: the you that smiles in silence, the you that commands a room, and the you that lives only in dreams.
Dramatic, intricate, and unapologetically expressive, this piece is for the bold cultural aesthete — the one who knows that to be seen is to be interpreted.