![]() ![]() Yet in doing so, she had to suspend her high-end line, Jardin de Chouette. Kim Jae-Hyun, another cool designer, explained that she had found a backer for her Lucky Chouette collection of separates with an owl logo. They have recently signed up with a major national clothing company, which they hope will provide financial backing with the freedom to stay independent. In their studio on the cool side of Gangnam, the duo seems at the heart of Seoul's downtown scene. I talked to the duo known as Steve J & Yoni P, both, like so many upcoming designers, trained in the UK: Yoni at London College of Fashion Steve at Central Saint Martins under the tutorship of the late Professor Louise Wilson. First was Karl Lagerfeld's one-night-in-Korea Cruise 2015/16 show while a Christian Dior heritage exhibition, "Esprit Dior", is on till 25 August.įor Seoul's Mayor, Park Won-Soon, and newly installed creative director of Seoul Fashion Week, Kuho Jung, the question is this: Can any of the current local designers become a global force? European brands such as Chanel and Dior both chose to show this summer in Seoul's Dongdaemun Design Plaza, (affectionately known as DDP) - the mighty modernist structure designed by architect Zaha Hadid. "I don't work for money but for the sake of making identity clear."įor home-grown fashion designers to compete with the global luxury empires, there would have to be a major shift in attitude. "What is important is dedication - and a sense of mission," Juun.J said. ![]() I asked the designer what had made him internationally successful, to the extent that he hopes to introduce womenswear before the end of the decade, with investment from multinational electronics-to-retail conglomerate, Samsung. The latest collection features denim, cut with precision to stand away from the body and with a chameleon ability to trace the masculine form. His retro-futuristic designs have an edgy feel and speak to the 21st-century generation. I spoke to Juun.J, a strong creative force and an important menswear designer during the Paris season. She suggested that a radical retail shift was important if the Shinsegae Group, of which she is vice-president, wanted to embrace the new generation. This concept store is in the heart of the city's super-rich territory of purring Mercedes and famous-label flagships, now known to the world as the source of "Gangnam Style", after the singer Psy's pop video went viral in 2012, with more than two billion hits.Įarlier that day, I had met up with Chung Yoo-Kyung, the fashion entrepreneur behind the idea of creating this youthquake in a classy boutique. ![]() Here was rapper G-Dragon, or Kwon Ji Yong, with his global reputation and five million-plus followers on Instagram, preparing a promotion for a pop-up store in Seoul's high-end Boon the Shop. Like so many times on my first trip to South Korea, I was overwhelmed by the spectacle of creativity. His daring cutaways and pioneering methods of construction featured in the 1968 sci-fi film Barbarella and have been copied many times over the decades – updated versions of his chainmail dresses have been sported by celebrities including Paris Hilton and Bella Hadid, while a recent reissue of his much-beloved 1969 metal bag was an immediate hit.Their hair was shocking pink, or orange or green - before my eyes was a K-pop band striking the poses of fashion icons. Playfully claiming to have “travelled to Earth from the planet Altair to organise civilisation on this planet 78,000 years ago”, Rabanne’s art-clothing hybrids allowed for a particularly evocative form of time travel, bringing suggestions of medieval-era chainmail and other historic attire into an uncertain modern age. Working with a series of innovative materials – including paper, plastic and, most famously, metal – Rabanne’s designs often resembled very beautiful (and sometimes scanty) armour from a mysterious universe. In the hands of Spanish designer Paco Rabanne, the Space Race became perfect stimulus for envisioning an avant-garde future. ![]()
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