Seoul Fashion Week returned to Dongdaemun Design Plaza as a fully in-person event after three years. Although online platforms have evolved, fashion week still matters a lot to designers, for it is where a brand's identity is presented, and networking among industry people, buyers and media takes place. Attending the five-day event, I was initially excited at the prospect of finally seeing runwa...

Seoul Fashion Week will fully return with in-person runway shows next month, presenting spring-summer 2023 collections by 30 Korean designers at Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul. The country’s largest fashion event will take place from Oct. 11 to 15 indoors and outdoors at DDP with participation by 23 established designers for Seoul Collection and seven rookie designers with less than seven year...

Fantasy photo shoots Yumi’s Dress Room, located in Seoul’s Mangwon-dong in Mapo-gu, goes one step further. It offers a chance to turn one’s secret fantasy into reality -- becoming a fairy-tale princess, a Greek goddess or a girl group band member. The shop has hundreds of dresses, high heels and bling that girls and grown women alike can try on. Oh Yoo-mi, the 28-year-old owner of the shop, sa...

In addition to the exhibition, the museum is holding workshops and events for visitors. Participants can create their own unique household items using silk at the “bojagi” workshop to make the traditional Korean wrapping cloth and at the Korean embroidery workshop. At Hahn Moo-sook Colloquium for Korean Humanities at the George Washington University, scholars and other leading voices in the Kore...

Seoul Fashion Week, South Korea's biggest biannual fashion show, will be held fully in person in October, following two years of scaled-down events due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Seoul city government said Monday. Seoul Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2023 will kick off on Oct. 11 at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in central Seoul for a five-day run, the city announced. As the upcoming event w...

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In a similar move, Hazzys, an apparel and accessories brand under leading fashion group LF, collaborated with Mimi, a character known as Korea’s Barbie, last month. The fashion retailer introduced a limited edition doll and some 1,000 items were sold out in just four days. Mimi is a domestic doll brand introduced in 1983 by Mimi World. British fashion label JW Anderson also unveiled new bags ins...

In line with the Y2K trend, braided hair will continue to be loved by women with long hair. It is the easiest way to get variety without cutting or coloring, they said. “While retro has always been popular, braided hairstyles awaken far-back memories. It was also revived as a recent trend, following recognition of dancers who appeared on Mnet’s ‘Street Woman Fighter,’” Kim said. “In addition to ...

As people suffer hardships caused by the virus for nearly three consecutive years, Y2K fashion has naturally become a nostalgic memory for Generation X and millennials, born between mid-1960s to early 1990s. On the other hand, Generation Z considers it as a fun and fresh way to experience the looks, experts said. However, the Y2K revival may seem “uncool” to some older generations, who first wo...

The partnership is part of the fashion house’s mentoring program Women@Dior, which was launched in 2017. Dior has selected six Ewha students to participate in Women@Dior, according to the university. As part of the cooperation between Dior and Ewha, the French luxury house is staging its pre-fall 2022 collection fashion show at the university on April 30, marking its first-ever runway show in th...

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Qatari women’s traditional costumes include abaya, or a long-sleeved, floor-length garment; hijab, or a head covering; and a dress called thobe nashel. The preferred colors are dark red and violet, with embroideries added to highlight the beauty of the costumes. Photos by Park Hyun-koo Written by Jie Ye-eun

All the fashion shows were streamed online through YouTube, Naver TV and TikTok. Actor Lee Jung-jae and model Choi So-ra promoted local fashion brands as the 2022 fall-winter Seoul Fashion Week’s global ambassadors. Although the biannual fashion event’s in-person shows were completed, an on-site exhibition, where visitors can try on Seoul Fashion Week’s designer brands’ products and buy them at ...

Korea, Qatar hold cultural exchange via traditional costume show

The Seoul city government on Wednesday signed an agreement with Tranoi, the official trade fair of Paris Fashion Week, to help South Korean designers expand to the European fashion market, officials said. Under the memorandum of understanding on the "nurturing of global fashion brands and development of the fashion industry," the two sides will pick promising Korean fashion brands and support th...