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Bought From A Theatrical Seamstress Circa 2000 comprising of a black and fawn art nouveau pattern 1920s style coat in the style of Fong Leng, in a heavy chenille fabric and gold silky textured lining with a quilted velvet collar and two decorative buttons medieval tapestry sleeveless coat in the style of Fong Leng, with gold textured ruffle to armholes, pintuck and stitching detail on the back sale catalogue of a collection 'Haute Couture' by Fong Leng, Sotheby Amsterdam 19 March 1979, Language is Dutch (3) Fong Leng (Rotterdam, 13 August 1937) is a Chinese-Dutch fashion designer, and calls her clothing designs 'creations'. Fong Leng started a fashion boutique in 1969 in a Drugstore, Nieuwendijk in Amsterdam. In 1971 she moved to larger premises at the P.C. Hooftstraat and called it Studio Fong Leng. She is mostly known for her extravagant cloak dresses. Fong Leng’s most notable client was Mathilde Willink, the divorced wife of the Dutch magic realist painter Carel Willink The materials Fong Leng uses for her creations are leather, suede, silk, marabou feathers, and fur. She uses techniques like application, incrustation, quilting, matelassé, smocking and pleating. Most designs have figurative images on them. Fong Leng is most famous by her cloak dresses for women. High society and extravagant women like Mathilde Willink and Kate Bush wore clothes by Fong Leng. In 1975 the Centraal Museum in Utrecht was the first museum to collect Fong Leng’s work. The museum bought it straight out of Fong Leng’s studio, so it had never been worn by anybody. The museum paid 10,000 guilders for the Straalmantel. Up to this day there are numerous museums that have creations made by Studio Fong Leng in their collections. For instance: Amsterdam Museum, Museum Rotterdam, and Kunstmuseum Den Haag. During the years there have been several exhibitions organised solely devoted to Fong Leng's designs.