Seoul Fashion Week 2023 Highlights

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Seoul Fashion Week 2023 Highlights

Seoul Fashion Week kicked off spring with designers advancing social issues via their designs. Whether it be up-cycling, gender fluidity or anti-animal cruelty, the South Korean fashion industry is leading by example.

ULKIN

Designer Seongdong Lee presented the latest collection of his famously social conscious brand. Titled, “The Blind Spot of Safe Space”, the collection addressed themes of climate change and natural disasters. Models walked the runway in torn and dyed knits, dirty mustard yellow utility wear and smudged eye makeup. Lee distorts traditionally professional clothes through deconstruction to showcase the underlying chaos bubbling in society. Lee also takes a pointed look at overplayed niceties and attempts to hold it accountable for a smokescreen over important issues.

Acceptance Letter Studio

Acceptance Letter Studio is meant to resemble an acceptance letter to a world where one belongs via fashion. Designer Shim Jae-kyung takes inspiration from The Continental Baths of the 1970s where minorities, underground and mainstream people could meet and talk. Models walk the runway in distorted pastel activewear that shows the person’s isolation. Their hair, dripping wet, is a nod to the Baths. Tank tops are worn with straps pulled down while pants have circular holes at the knee. Leotards are pulled above the head or pulled down suggesting that something is quite not right.

M.RoF

For M.RoF, turning fixed perceptions of clothes on its head is the goal. Designer Jaemin Lee does so in her F/W collection by manipulating the traditionally structured feel of leather to become flexible. Lee uses a variety of cuts to give the material shape and dynamism. A low-cut burgundy oversized leather jacket creates an androgynous look. Also, amid traditional trench coats now made with leather, cropped shearling jackets appear. For some looks, Lee plays with shoulder pads or sleeves that feels interestingly hawkish.

Vegan Tiger

Created by Yuna Yang, Vegan Tiger is South Korea’s first vegan high fashion brand. Firstly, Yang’s goal is to prove that sustainability and innovation are not mutually exclusive. She also donates some proceeds to vegan and environmental causes. Titled “NO FURade”, the collection was a celebration of animal life and condemnation of fur use. Yang specifically uses funky prints and bright colors to spread the idea of positivity.

Lie Sang Bong

Lastly came one of South Korea’s most famous designers. Sangbong Lee collaborated with the Austrian Belvedere Museum and takes inspiration from famous artworks. Overall, Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss” was a feature piece of the collection. Specifically, using high necks, puffy sleeves and a long skirt, Lee succeeds in creating a regal manifestation of the artwork.

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