Airing intimate laundry in public

Xu Daini, the founder of an online lingerie shop, organizes a unique art exhibition featuring pieces fashioned from old underwear donated by the public

Having received 5,012 pieces of used lingerie from the 34 provinces and cities in China as part of a recycling project, Xu Daini, founder and CEO of O2bra.com, decided that she would showcase them in a one-of-a-kind exhibition in Shanghai.

After about three months of preparations, which included working with local artists and designers to tear apart the lingerie before refashioning them into art works, Xu launched the two-week exhibition on Mar 7, a day before International Women's Day, in an 800-square-meter space atop one of the city's century-old dock warehouses along the Huangpu River.