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'Genderless is not fashion trend, but social phenomenon'

Simon Collins, former Dean of Parsons School of Design and founder of fashion institute FCD (Fashion Culture Design) said genderless is not a fashion trend, but a social phenomenon. The fashion expert held a seminar during the 2017 Hera Seoul Fashion Week at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul last month to discuss the theme “Fashion in the Age of Genderless” with four oth...

Fashion | 2017-10-31 20:50

Miss Vietnam wins Global Beauty Contest in Seoul:

Fashion | 2017-10-20 17:01

Colorful runways decorate Seoul Fashion Week

Ever since Jung Ku-ho became executive director of Seoul Fashion Week, he has been designating one veteran dressmaker as honorary designer each year to host the archive exhibition as part of the opening event for the fashion event. For the 2018 Spring Summer Hera Seoul Fashion Week, Jung picked veteran designer Rubina, who opened the show under the theme “Endless Journey” at ...

Fashion | 2017-10-19 22:32

Seoul Fashion Week settles as a cultural festival

The world’s top fashion weeks often serve as trade markets bridging individual designers and retailers to boost the local fashion industry. Seoul Fashion Week also began with the same goal, but it has settled as a cultural festival first, attracting some 280,000 visitors to the Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) last season. “There is no fashion festival like Seoul Fashion Week in...

Fashion | 2017-10-11 02:26

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

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