Bent over a magenta chiffon fabric, an elderly Hong Kong tailor wearing thick glasses meticulously stitched on embroidered butterflies, working to transform the shimmering material into an elegant, high-collared Chinese dress known as a cheongsam.
At 88, Yan Kar-man is one of Hong Kong's oldest master tailors of the cheongsam - literally "long clothes" in Cantonese - a dress recognisable for its form-fitting silhouette which was famously featured in Wong Kar-wai's film In The Mood For Love.
