Porcelain clothing

When for participants of Ruaway-show gave the job to think of dresses made of ceramics, I thought this is incredible. But when I saw this, I realized that they may be no less beautiful than the dresses from the fabric!

Li Xiaofeng/Lee Sâofèng, Chinese sculptor, born in 1965, in Hubei, who graduated in 2002, Academy of fine arts in Beijing – creates clothing from Chinese porcelain.

He stitches shards of porcelain tableware Chinese Emperors of the Song dynasty (420-479), Yuan dynasty (1279-1368), Ming (1368-1644) and Qing dynasty (1644-1911) and attaches the porcelain dress in leather frame. Ceramic outfits can be put, as you would any other clothes.
Li Xiaofeng's Studio is full of boxes of pobitymi plates and cups found at ancient archeological sites (a whole Pekin, according to him, is a huge building, vyvernuvšaâ entire layers of archaeological relic). Each porcelain piece is sorted by age, color, date, form before it will be used to create a new order.

The process is complex. At first sculptor  is drawing idea, then creates a wire skeleton and welding to it carefully chosen colour tile and form fragments. It's still a thumbnail. Then he sew's  the leather base, antique porcelain shards manually polished, drilled small corners and everything connects banality silver wire.

In 2010, the Lacoste (brand from 2006 orders known designers every year special series of their shirts-Polo for Holiday Collector’s) to Li Xiaofeng.

The sculptor took a picture of each selected fragment (251 for male and 304 to female Polo ) and made prints. Just released 2000 such shirts in silk bags with Red Seal LACOSTE-XIAOFENG. And showpieces had to cast a copy of shards, since China banned the export of ancient artifacts.

(sorry, didn't know he worked for Alexander McQueen Xiaofeng Li, or simply gave the idea)