Before the show started, I was looking at the crowd there were a lot of, what the Korean say "ajuma" - elderly ladies. No it's not the type that you see on the street, these ajumas were decked out in their Sundays' Sunday's best.
The lights dim and the music plays. It's the Motown classic "Heard it through the Grapevine." With the amount of ajumas and classic Motown Philly music playing you expect the old and the drab. The the first pieces is revealed. A red tulip dress that cinches at the waist with a red patent belt. Then came an aqua blue dress that used a petaling effect, which made it resemble to fishscales. An applause came from the crowd.
More pedaled colorful dresses came out then there were jackets. In a bubble-y shape the jacket itself had several different colors on one piece. It was like a gradient scale of one color. Matched with the bubble jacket was a scrunched up silk scarf with the same effect. For the jackets that didn't have this look, it was made up of wool with a rose silk screen print on the back.
From that rose image, the outfits transitioned to dresses with a rose pattern juxtaposed to the velvet black material.
After the collection was finished a large applause came from the audience. Who knew flowers can grow in the winter.
Sunday, 28 June 2009
Color and flowers aren't only for the Spring
Song Jain and Jung Wookjun
Song Jain and Jung Wook Jun hosted a special catwalk session at 915 Industry Gallery in Cheongdam-dong. Both designers experimented liberally with voluminous shapes while keeping their color palettes dark and mellow.
Jung brings home his experimental Juun.J F/W 2009 menswear line after celebrating a successful showing in Paris this past January. Particularly to note in this collection are Jung's outerwear pieces, which included fresh variations on the classic men's jacket, trench coats and military-style ponchos. At the same time, slim pants grounded the levity of more voluminous pieces, and feminine silhouettes harking back to the 80s and 90s constantly offset strong masculinity.
Similarly, Song Jain's depicted the darkness and serenity of the winter season through her collection, which was marked by structure amid roomy silhouettes. Particularly to note were black, brown and wine coloring that, coupled with strong, defined tailoring, weighed down lighter fabrics like silk, wool and cotton knits, resulting in simultaneously loose yet tense style.