Porcelain LACOSTE POLO. photo © MIKO HE

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LI XIAOFENG is a Beijing artist who creates clothing piece made from traditional chinese ceramics. He creates clothing from ceramic shards coming from the Song, Ming, Yuan and Qing dynasties, which are sewn together on a leather undergarment.

Specially commissioned by LACOSTE for the Holiday Collector’s Series 2010, he created two different polos. The first is a printed polo, created from photographs of blue and white porcelain shards and limited to 20,000 pieces. The second (presented above) is  the Porcelain Polo art work which will become a part of the history of LACOSTE , cooperation between Western fashion brands and Chinese artists, and the commercialization of traditional Chinese motifs in contemporary global culture.

LI XIAOFENG took three full months to paint, fire, fragment, shape, polish, and finally link together the 317 shards to create the Porcelain Polo, which is currently on display at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris and then in Bejing at Red Gate Gallery.

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