Hello hello, I'm Michelle, the creator of this website on hanfu! I’m an illustrator and I love to include elements of my Chinese heritage into my pieces. One of the ways I do that is through hanfu. I’ve included some other related pieces I've created to the left. If you like them, you can follow more of my art at @liramic on Instagram and Twitter!

I made this site for a school project but hanfu has been something I've been interested in for a really long time! I love the idea of bringing these traditional and ancient styles into modern fashion and they’re very different from the Qipao (旗袍) and Tangzhuang (唐装) you usually see as representing Chinese traditional clothing. I've been fascinated by these styles for so long but never really took the time to delve into what each type is called and the distinctions between each one. This project gave me the opportunity to do so!

I absolutely loved reading through all the hanfu forums and the Baidu Baike pages about the most common styles and how they’re distinguished. Please note, though, that the styles discussed on this site are the modern appearances of the styles in the Hanfu Movement and not their historically accurate versions! I’ve also linked all the resources I used for the information on this site, though they are mostly in Chinese.