The Mao suit is associated with the austerity of the Cultural Revolution – and the villainy of Bond baddies. But some, including Xi Jinping, look to reclaim it, writes Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore.

The victory referred to is the Communist Revolution, and Red Capital is, still and proudly, China’s largest and most exclusive purveyor of the Mao suit. Once this meant something grand ...

But behind the scenes, complaints continue about the blocking of some Internet sites, and journalists are grappling with government restrictions - which would probably suit the late Mao Tse Tung ...

The prisoners are in fact wearing a variety of what foreigners would come to call a“Mao suit.” In Chinese it fits into a category of clothing called zhifu, or uniform. Mass mobilization of ...

The giant portrait of Chairman Mao in Tiananmen Square -- he of the Mona Lisa gaze, flushed cheeks and trademark gray suit -- is spirited away and replaced by a new Mao. He looks just like the old ...

At the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China” — which was last year — “he wore a very specific type of suit, a special kind of Mao suit that only Mao wore on ...

The Zhongshan suit made famous by the early revolutionary Sun Yat-sen, Mao Zedong and generations of senior leaders ever since has been proposed as the official national dress, The Beijing News ...