Lacoste x Li Xiaofeng – Porcelain Polo
Chinese artist Li Xiaofeng creates sculptures from porcelain dishware fragments. He’s done pieces that look like garments, so it seems natural for him to take on a commission from Lacoste to create two polo shirts for the label’s Holiday 2010 Collector’s Series.
It’s a successful collaboration. The shirts look legit, Xiaofeng gets the attention from the collaboration, plus his first one-man gallery show, and Lacoste pushes its signature garment further along the icon hierarchy.
One of the shirts is made of fabric printed with blue and white shards with Kangxi Period lotus and children designs. From the press release:
The lotus grows from mud underwater to emerge as a flower, symbolising purity and rebirth. Images of babies represent fertility, as during that period the high infant mortality rate meant that people decorated ceramics with babies hoping they would be blessed with children.
Made of porcelain fragments, the second shirt is Lacoste’s most ambitious polo yet. Xiaofeng painted, fired, broke, shaped, polished and linked the pieces in a three month process.
See the shirts this summer at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris or this fall at Xiaofeng’s show at the Red Gate Gallery in Beijing.
Via yatzer
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