Wooyoungmi FW25 / Fall Winter 2025 – 2026 at Paris Men’s Fashion Week Elegance is a frame of mind and body. Empowered by the way we dress, it is a mentality expressed in consideration, compassion and calm. For Fall Winter 2025 – 2026 / FW25, Wooyoungmi venerates elegance as a compass for a new way…
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Wooyoungmi SS25 at Paris Fashion Week
Wooyoungmi SS25 / Spring Summer 2025 at Paris Fashion Week For over a hundred years, South Koreans have emigrated to America in pursuit of opportunity. From plantation labourers who settled there in the early twentieth century to the students inhabiting its universities from the Mid-Century onwards, the cross-cultural community has birthed the contemporary archetype known…
Wooyoungmi FW24 at Paris Men Fashion Week
Wooyoungmi FW24 at Paris Men Fashion Week In 1870, the Scottish missionary Alexander Williams published an account of Korea retrospectively titled Knowing About Korea Without Ever Going There. Until the late 19th century, the nation was largely closed to visitors – a ban that added to its mystery in a time of exploration – and…
Wooyoungmi Spring Summer 2024 at Paris Fashion Week Men’s
Wooyoungmi Spring Summer 2024 Collection at Paris Fashion Week Men’s With their natural instinct for style, the female haenyeo divers of Jeju are recurring references on the international fashion map. Since the 17th Century, matriarchal snorkelers – up to eighty years of age as – have provided for their families by diving for seafood off…
Wooyoungmi Fall Winter 2023 – 2024 at Paris Men’s Fashion Week
Wooyoungmi Fall Winter 2023 – 2024 at Paris Men’s Fashion Week In the eyes of Wooyoungmi, the global popularisation of South Korean culture is an interesting evolution. When the brand was founded twenty years ago, its bricks were moulded in Seoul but its foundation based on the blueprints of Parisian fashion mentality. It’s a tale…
Wooyoungmi Spring Summer 2023 at Paris Men’s Fashion Week
Auctions represent a process of renewal : a re-evaluation and revaluation of the past through the eyes of the present. This year marks two decades since Woo Young Mi created her eponymous brand and staged its inaugural show in Paris. And while the Wooyoungmi Spring-Summer 2023 collection is not an anniversary exercise per se, the…
Wooyoungmi Fall Winter 2022 – 2023 at Paris Men’s Fashion Week
FALL WINTER 2022 CO-ED COLLECTION INSPIRED BY THE SHIFTING LANDSCAPE OF MOSCOW IN THE 1920s, THE WOOYOUNGMI FALL-WINTER 2022 COLLECTION CARRIES AN ATMOSPHERE OF NOSTALGIA AND OLD GLAMOUR, REVITALISED BY THE MODERN ELEGANCE INHERENT TO THE HOUSE. AS IN THE LAST SEASON, EARLY INSPIRATION STEMS FROM A WORK OF LITERATURE—AMOR TOWLES’ 2016 NOVEL <A GENTLEMAN…
Wooyoungmi Spring Summer 2022 at Paris Men’s Fashion Week
“La Bella Epoque Is Now” Madame Woo’s defiant impression is a global overture – A call for light in the evolving aftermath of dark times. The narrative for Spring Summer 22 begins with the man in the red coat, Julian Barnes’s recent historical book set during The Belle Epoque Period in Paris. We discover a…
Wooyoungmi Men’s Wear Autumn Winter 2021 – 2022 collection at Paris Fashion Week Men’s
All photos courtesy of Wooyoungmi A defiant reaction of the human psyche, times of limitation can spur our imagination and take us to places we’ve never been before. For the Autumn-Winter 2021 co-ed collection, Wooyoungmi stages an abstract journey beyond the borders of our current reality. Le Livre du Voyage, the mind-expanding essay by Bernard…