Fashion goes Far East

As runways orient themselves toward Shanghai chic, you may want to follow suit.

But travel light if you go there, says Stephanie Solomon, fashion director for Bloomingdale’s. “It shouldn’t be a costume.”

Instead, streamline the silhouette and your choices: Ralph Lauren’s dragon-embroidered smoking jacket, Diane von Furstenberg’s kimono-like wrap dress or Vivienne Tam’s Japanese landscape-embroidered tank dress (pictured).

Skip jewelry or prints with frog closures, says Daniel James Cole of New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology. Instead, you might accessorize a little black dress with jade dangling earrings or a lacquered clutch.

Waist-high slits, chopstick hair adornments, fan-shaped bags or kimono tops over cutoffs cry geisha girl, not sophisticate, Cole says. “Suit your style and figure. Nothing says fashion victim more than wearing something trendy but unflattering.”