SOL-SOL: Seoul Fashion Week Street Style
In the last of our Seoul Fashion Week coverage, street style snapper Sol-Sol shares some shots of what the SFW attendees were wearing outside of the shows. These are some of our favourite photographs from Sol-Sol’s Tumblr and Facebook page. Head to their blog to see the SFW zeitgeist from the off-duty models, students and...
Seoul Fashion Week FW13 Round-up
Seoul’s F/W 2013 Fashion week was a whirlwind of shows and celebrities spread out across two venues. While the setup was a bit harder to navigate than previous seasons, being that IFC Mall and Blue Square were 30 minutes apart by the free shuttle provided, the organizers were much friendlier than in the past. In...
Seoul Fashion Week: FW13 CRES. E. DIM Show
If you want to make a fashion statement, Seoul Fashion Week is the place to do it. Between and during the shows, true fashionistas linger outside anticipating a closer glimpse of runway models sporting the latest styles. Before the CRES. E. DIM show, fans stood in line wearing ensembles of bright one-colored suits, over-sized hats,...
5 Brands Getting a New Life in Korea
Repurposing and reinterpretations of styles is one of the coolest things about looking at fashion on an international scale. Korean fashion is bursting with clever, and at times puzzling, reinterpretations of Western trends. What’s on the street back home – florals, high-top sneakers, Peter Pan collars, studs – have their own intensity and look in...
SOL-SOL: Seoul Street Style
Here are some cool Seoul style shots from SOL-SOL, a photographic celebration of youth culture, street culture and fashion. See more street photography from SOL-SOL on their Facebook page or follow them on tumblr.
IISE: Mixing Traditional Korea with Urban Street Style
The designers behind international fashion accessories brand IISE, meaning ‘second generation’, are Korean American brothers TK and Kevin Kim. Having documented the unique experience of creating their newest collection on their social media networks, much well-deserved hype has built around IISE in the last few months. We sat down with the two to chat about...
A Shot of Soju With: Model Monika Rofler
The streets of Seoul city are Monika Rofler’s personal catwalk. Before learning how to say hello in Korean, discovering the smell of kimchi, or what the heck soju even was, Monika fled to Korea based merely on a strong gut feeling. She was offered a modeling contract and after living in multiple international cities, she...
Spotlight: Jewelry Designer Song Jin Hee
We met Song Jin Hee a few weeks ago, a self-taught jewelry designer and owner of luxury Chungdam shop KOHINOOR, which carries her own intricately created products, as well as exhibits the work of other artists. ‘Kohinoor‘ is the name of a 108 carat diamond; the main feature of the crown jewels belonging to the...
