Gustavo Lins

The Brazilian fashion designer and architect, Gustavo Lins, who lives in Paris is famous for experimentation. At the invitation of Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg, he began to realise his own designs in porcelain at the beginning of 2007. With an eye to Nymphenburg's history and reference to his haute couture collections, Lins has developed items of clothing that look like kimonos – and therefore follows in the tradition that Franz Anton Bustelli established with his chinoiseries and figurines lavishly dressed in rococo fashion. The materials are first soaked in liquid porcelain mass and then draped on life-size cardboard busts to which a thin coat of porcelain mass has also been applied. The fabric and cardboard dissolve in the kilns as the porcelain hardens. The result: satin-white busts of a sculptural nature – filigree and elegant objects that are located somewhere between apparel and sculpture.