Shanghai Fashion Month 2022 is a fashion event that definitely didn't take place in Shanghai, not from April to May, 2022. All the fashions in this piece are loosely based on the articles, videos and audio recordings that were circulating the social media during the lockdown. These "unreliable" sources often revealed extreme cases in which ordinary people were treated unfairly by another group of people — often those who enforcing orders from the authorities, sometimes foregoing the law. Although I believe these are only extreme individual occasions, yet the fact that such things still occur nevertheless saddens me. And I feel like they need to be remembered, or rather, I need to remember them.
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In this experience, the player can control and switch between the 8 cameras focusing on this imaginary fashion show from various angles.This game was banned on multiple Chinese social media within just 5 hours after its publishing. After receiving notifications from those social platforms, I replaced the textures of the dress for the last model character with the screenshots of the notifications, and made a China-Safe Version.
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