With K-pop and K-movies commanding global pop culture, K-fashion may be next to benefit from the frenzy.
Concept Korea is a global fashion program hosted by the country’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and organized by the Korea Creative Content Agency, to support emerging designers from South Korea. After a pandemic pause, the 12-year-old Concept Korea program is returning to the fashion week calendar to provide designers with a very visible global platform.
Pieces will channel a traditional multipocketed fisherman’s vest, but made into a skirt, nets will add texture and seaweed will serve as pattern inspiration.— and the trend of sending not just models but celebrities down the runway — Kim Donghyuk of South Korean boy band iKon, will walk the Ul:kin show.
“What I personally feel about the location or the historical images that I get [from my travels] I try to capture those in my work,” she said. “For the [spring] 2023 collection, I decided to [focus on] Spain’s old capital, Toledo. If you think about the characteristics of Toledo, there’s Judaism, Islamic culture, there’s also Christianity.
“Korean fashion and Korean designers can lead the world and influence the world as well,” she continued. “It has a potential to influence not only Asia but the entire globe.” “It was a really interesting process because the balloon skirt is just skirt isn’t it? You can think of long and short balloon skirts, but we are representing some of the crazy hybrid clothing that has balloon skirts inserted in classic garments like blazers and trench coats, so it’s kind like combination of coat and skirt and it is absolutely wearable,” he said.
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