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Tue, September 26, 2017 | 10:55

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Songzio Homme pursues unique male identity

Launching a secondary label to support its main line has been a trend in recent years among Korean fashion designers. To offer experimental haute couture every season, designers need lucrative ready-made sub-labels to maintain their main brands. Another reason to launch a secondary line is to commercialize the designer’s brand that can appeal to anybody with simple and comfor...

Fashion | 2017-09-26 09:23

Young designers honor independence fighters

Five students at Konkuk University’s Department of Apparel Design have begun selling special hooded T-shirts decorated with the Taegeukgi, the Korean national flag, in order to support marginalized descendants of independence activists during Japanese colonial rule (1910-45). Starting from last week, the students, who launched the street fashion brand ZAMU two years ago, have...

Fashion | 2017-09-25 17:08

[INTERVIEW] Miss Korea to walk New York's runway

Korea may be too small a place for Miss Korea winner Hong Na-sil to fully spread her wings. Last year’s winner of the nation’s annual beauty pageant wants to let the whole world know the beauty of Korea. As a part of her attempts, the 26-year-old will appear on the catwalk for New York Fashion Week next month. “Given that modernized hanbok will hit the runway this year, my de...

Fashion | 2017-08-28 10:20

World traveler pushes boundaries of traditional garment

Kwon Mi-ru, 37, has traveled 63 cities in 13 countries wearing only the Korean traditional dress of hanbok. Her hanbok craze even took her up Mount Halla on Jeju Island and Annapurna in the Himalayas of Nepal. She climbed there in a winter hanbok, which she recalled was no different from functional thermal clothing. “I just wanted to experiment with the potential of hanbok, b...

Fashion | 2017-08-23 16:14

[INTERVIEW] 'Models are born, actresses are made'

Model and actress Lee Ho-jung is only 21 years old, but she is already an overachiever. Lee debuted when she was 16, walked on top-notch designers’ catwalks like Ko Tae-yong’s Beyond Closet and Hong Hye-jin’s The Studio K at Seoul Fashion Week. It has only been a year since she started acting field and has already starred in two TV dramas and two films including the recent hi...

Fashion | 2017-08-14 19:25

[INTERVIEW] 'Montblanc is lifetime companion'

German luxury brand, Montblanc, has had a longstanding reputation of making the finest writing instruments that many high-profile figures have cherished. The late Pope John Paul II, ex-President of the United States John F. Kennedy and Queen Elizabeth II were loyal customers of the German brand, particularly for its fountain pens. Montblanc’s pens were also used on important ...

Fashion | 2017-06-11 20:36

Sohn dreams of mom and pop chicken store

Sohn Min-ho, 29, has been modeling for 10 years and he has no doubt that modeling is God’s calling for him. Lately he came to hear his inner voice about a humble profession that he’d like to pursue during the rest of his life _ that of being an owner of a small chicken restaurant. His dream has since gone specific. Sohn wants a mom-and-pop chicken store, rather than a franchi...

Fashion | 2017-05-07 19:43

Noma Han wants to be called tattooist

Kim Ki-bum searching for happiness in DJing

Model Kim Ki-bum is one of the hottest disk jockeys on the Korean fashion scene who is in his fourth year of turning music at almost all the luxury brands’ pop-up store opening events here. Kim has played tunes at presentations of new collections for Chanel, Dior, Ralph Lauren and Michael Kors. Italian luxury brand Gucci contacted him privately to play at their party after wa...

Fashion | 2017-05-07 19:36

Noma Han wants to be called tattooist

Being a fashion model is not as fancy as spectators of runway shows imagine. The vast majority of models are fighting for their living. This is the case for model Noma Han who has explored modeling for eight years now. “I was a freelancer model eight years ago and the fashion industry at that time preferred pretty- looking boys or big guys,” said Han during an interview with ...

Fashion | 2017-05-07 19:31

Models shine through volunteer activities

Models are usually associated with glitz and glamor, but many also have big hearts. Shin Eun-jeong, 54, a former model and now a model agency director, began doing volunteer work with other models a few years ago. Initially, it was a social gathering in which members met for food and drinks.

Fashion | 2017-05-05 15:59

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