Her clothes show the world the new face of China's fashion industry - not just a manufacturer but a center of creativity and innovation, says Serge Carreira, a lecturer on fashion and luxury at the SciencesPo university in Paris.
Fashion watchers have drawn parallels between Peng, 50, and the United States' first lady Michelle Obama, 49, who has promoted American designers and labels like Isabel Toledo, Jason Wu and J Crew. Others compare Peng with France's former first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, who became an international icon of elegance, garbed in her favorite Christian Dior, Chanel and John Galliano.
Peng has been called "China's Carla" in the French press for months, says Rotceig, because of the women's similarities as singers and fashionable first ladies.
Peng, a native of the eastern province of Shandong, joined the People's Liberation Army at 18 and gained fame as a performer of patriotic and military songs.
At a time when China's appetite for foreign luxury goods continues to grow - and Peng's husband is calling on government officials to live more simply - her recent fashion choices appear to say that elegance need not be imported.
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