Fascination and obsession

The working process of those in the fashion trade also fascinates Lin Tianmiao, whose installation work Procedure is also featured at L'Or de Dior.

Lin says that since childhood, she has enjoyed watching artists and craftsmen work.

"These unique tools they work with, the ways they use the apparatuses with dexterity and their status — forgetting about the whole world but investing so much into what they are doing — have become an obsession for me."

Her works show golden tools and models of skeletal pieces grafted together, by which she initiates discussions about new values.

"I'm interested in people of different walks of life engaging in their trades. I loved helping and watching my artist father when he painted and practiced calligraphy," she says.

"It is the process of those artisans in Dior's studios where observing them inspired me to think about the invisible values of the steps in their work to produce items of high value."