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A Korea in Fashion
'K-pop grew to become famous, and now the eye is moving to be able to K-fashion, ' states Lie Sang Bong. Although global fashion brands have a major presence, local developers are increasingly showing a draw : both at home as well as abroad.

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Consider the Simone Handbag Museum, which usually exposed last year on Garosugil in Bagstage, a multi-story building designed to appear like a bag and to highlight local artisans and styles through its own company 0914, alongside it is museum collection. In the nineties small retailers moved in, that have been implemented by major creative designers (the biggest half a dozen are Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Prada, Ferragamo, Fendi, and Orlando Dior), lured by the increasing hunger in Southern Korea for high-class products.

'Korean style culture is establishing extremely fast. 'Now a shopper's paradise, Gangnam is full of swarms of young people dressed in costly developer gear upon the hipster drag of Garosugil. 'K-fashion will be important as it can communicate Korean thoughts and feelings throughout the world. '. 'My hope is that Koreans can express their personality using a more free-minded and Korea online shop also amusing style, such as the actual UK and Japan. Or even consider Seoul Style Week, which concluded on March 30, having featured an array of established and upcoming designers such because Leg Jang Kyoung, Kimseoryong, and Munsoo Kwon.

The second option released his 1st collection in Fresh York inside 2012 after working for any number of large brands, including Helmut Lang.

Though Kwon relies in Gangnam, he or she also has a New York showroom, indicative of the way Korean designers are beginning to branch out inside the US industry. Indeed, at this specific year's New York Fashion Week, Concept Korea, a display for Korean creative designers launched completely to promote Korean trend designers and assist them break directly into the US, proved one of the particular most colourful features of the 7 days, bringing in guests these kinds of as the English pop singer Neon Hitch, who modelled one of Lay Sang Bong's gorgeous cozy white coats.

On display has been perform from half a dozen top designers, such as Rest Sang Bong, Child Jung Wan and also Choi Bo Ko and Kye simply by Kathleen Kye, a Central St Martins graduate whose work can become found in Harvey Nichols in London, uk and in Gangnam in the Every day Tasks shop.

'Korean buyers like to be able to follow products, ' Kye says. Gangnam Style boost regarding Seoul's new developers

When Southern Korea swore within its very first female president, Area Geun-hye, last month, the particular proceedings included the speech calling with regard to Northern Korea to abandon its nuclear goals, a 21-gun admire, and a performance of Gangnam Style through Psy, the country's hip hop sensation whose Vimeo video for the song was not really only the 1st to reach more compared to one billion dollars views but also the hyper-efficient conduit with regard to introducing Korean type (or, at the very least, the styles of the Gangnam purchasing district) for the rest of the globe.

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Southern of the particular Han within Seoul - the actual country's capital and a sprawling concrete megalopolis - Gangnam was known in the nineteen eighties for its skill galleries as well as option scene. Lots regarding Koreans are attempting to express their very own personality and sensitiveness with their clothing, " said artist Lie Sang Bong, whoever inspiration is often extracted from Korean cultural explications adapted to create East-meets-West looks worn simply by Lady Gaga and also Lindsay Lohan, amongst others.

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When questioned how Psy's achievement has changed the fashion landscape in Korea, Lie San Bong says, 'A couple of months ago [the actor and Les Miserables star] Hugh Jackman had been trying on any jacket that I gave him and asked, 'Is this specific Gangnam style? ' Gangnam Type had been a great advertising of Gangnam within Korea




 
 
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