A poster for the spring-summer 2025 Seoul Style Week, that includes Okay-pop group NewJeans. (Seoul Metropolis)
Sustainability is again within the limelight because the spring-summer 2025 Seoul Style Week kicks off its five-day run Tuesday at Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul, addressing the pressing concern shared by the style {industry}.
One of many 21 manufacturers showcasing their collections on the runway is Julycolumn led by Park So-young. The 41-year-old designer, who opened the earlier fall-winter 2024 present in February, will characteristic items that use supplies created utilizing recycled plastic bottles.
The supplies come from Jeju Samdasoo, a bottled-water model backed by Jeju Metropolis that is likely one of the six corporations and teams which have partnered with the present organizer Seoul Metropolis to advertise sustainable style.
Subsequent up is Im Seon-oc, additionally a womenswear designer, who’s finest identified for her use of neoprene for her model, Partsparts. Im will this time placed on an extra separate exhibition at DDP devoted to reaching what she calls “zero waste.”
In an outreach to a bigger public, the model may have individuals are available in and piece collectively a canvas tote bag of their very own out of Partsparts cloth scraps for 2 days beginning Friday. Those that have booked spots on the model’s official Instagram will be capable to take part within the facet occasion.
The dedication to sustainability received’t cease at displaying style creations. On Wednesday, officers from Hyosung TNC, an area producer of eco-friendly supplies, will maintain a gathering to advertise its newest textile product “Regen,” created from ocean and plastic wastes, in response to the corporate. A few of the 120 patrons anticipated to attend the five-day style week and {industry} watchers will probably be becoming a member of the assembly, individuals with information of the matter stated.
Considerations apart from sustainability will probably be on the runway.
For the primary time within the style week’s historical past since 2000, the biannual occasion will placed on a collaboration between a style model and an electronics maker that would show to be a business success in years to return.
The designer behind this mission is Lee Chung-chung, a womenswear designer and founding father of LIE, whose runway will mark the finale on Saturday. Lee’s fashions will stroll down the runway carrying stretchable show panels — shows that may be stretched, folded and crumpled.
LIE’s Lee Chung-chung (proper) and a mannequin in a wheelchair wave on the fall-winter 2024 Seoul Style Week at Dongdaemun Design Plaza in February. (Seoul Metropolis)
“‘Neo-Craftsmanship’ is the theme this 12 months,” Lee advised The Korea Herald. “The so-called stretchable panels will probably be a brand new method to specific oneself and defining the form of craftsmanship that embraces contemporary additions to style is the place I’m going with the spring-summer assortment,” he added.
Lee — a designer identified for tying style to one thing else seemingly unrelated — collectively pursued the newest mission with LG Show in a government-funded push for securing “core applied sciences” with industry-wide functions. Stretchable panels for firefighters and the navy have lengthy been floated.
Okay-pop band NewJeans, the ambassadors for Seoul Style Week this season, will make an look Tuesday morning.
Fashions put on creations for KwakHyunJoo Assortment on the fall-winter 2024 Seoul Style Week at Dongdaemun Design Plaza in February. (Seoul Metropolis)
