Mi Kyoung Kim I

 

Mi Kyoung Kim is interested in all elements and techniques of handcrafting, she views these techniques as rights of passage levels of achievement that you have to attain before you can move on and start to improvise.
"I think it is importaant that we take responcibility and preserve ancient handicraft techniques which will die out if we do not take them to a new level."
Mi Kyoung Kim also thinks of herself as more of a sculptor than a tailor in her approach to fashion.
"I am really facinated by all the ways you can highlight, distort and transform the natural silhouette of the body with clothes and accessories."

 Mi Kyoung Kim was born in Korea in 1981, she recieved a scholarship to study fashion at the Su Won University in Korea. In 2008 Mi Kyoung Kim achieved her BA in Fashion Design Technology at the London college of fashion and then went on to study an MA in Digital Fashion.

Sang Hyuk Han

This selection of work by Korea's Sang Hyuk Han has many similarities to the work below by Walter Van Beirendonck with their blocks of colour inside the silhouette of the garment a great visual tool for slimming the figure. Sang Hyuk Han has also mixed the identity of the wearer with his hybrid designs.

Yeonju Sung

Yeonju Sung creates images from food dressed up as fashion. Stunning basques and dresses that can never be, captured only in a photograph a metaphor for the fleeting fickle quality of fashion. Yeonju is interested in the lie that is photography, photography as make believe.

"I drag out the types of images that can only exist in my mind and imagination into a reality and yet, it eventually disappears. I have physically made these images but they are the creation of illusion and ultimately what you see is the images of phantoms. My works remain as the medium of photographs, and it holds the time and makes us believe that the creation does exist in the real world." Yeonju Sung

Images from top; eggplant, lotus root, shrimp, fungi, tomato, red cabbage Thank you Dom