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Wed, November 20, 2019 | 04:57

Fashion designer teams up with yoga brand

FashioNow one of the most popular fitness activities in the world, yoga dates back to 5,000 years ago in Northern India and was a method used to achieve spirituality and inner peace. Its practice has been continued to the modern day, where it has not only been a huge part of fitness culture, but has also been linked to mental health, a topic of great interest among health exp...

2019-11-03 16:51

Vintage shop seeks to create cultural space

Vintage shop seeks to create cultural space

The popularity of the secondhand market has been rising among millennials in Korea, and wearing secondhand clothes is regarded as being fashionable, trendy and environmentally conscious. At Million Archive, a vshop located in Seongsu-dong in Seoul, more than 200 people queue even before the shop opens. The building, which is a renovated former factory, is filled with secondha...

Jung Hae-myoung | 2019-10-31 16:51

Designer Geum Key-sook opens up A to Z of hanbok

Designer Geum Key-sook opens up A to Z of hanbok

Hanbok, the traditional Korean dress, has been in vogue recently largely thanks to Jungkook ― lead vocalist of K-pop titan BTS. The singer has been sporting a modernized and trendy hanbok wherever he goes, inducing international fans' interest in the outfit.

Dong Sun-hwa | 2019-10-16 19:56

Same old story: why cosmetic labels use identical narratives

Same old story: why cosmetic labels use identical narratives

Meet Becky from Waikite Valley, New Zealand. She lives on a wild farm with “happy” deer. Her hands, chapped from endless farming, have been made soft and radiant through the “miraculous healing of deer milk.”

Lee Gyu-lee | 2019-08-26 17:27

Aspiring model becomes 'body positive' influencer

Aspiring model becomes 'body positive' influencer

Park I-seul once aspired to be a model with a beautiful, ideal body. She resorted to excessive diets in order to achieve this dream but by her early 20s this had only led to eating disorders.

Jun Ji-hye | 2019-07-11 18:04

Red-haired Korean model rocks 'Big 4' fashion weeks

Red-haired Korean model rocks 'Big 4' fashion weeks

New York-based Korean model Jung Ho-yeon is better known as the “red-haired Asian” among fashion designers, stylists and creative directors of luxury fashion houses, because of her iconic hair color.

Kang Hyun-kyung | 2019-06-21 16:53

Gloria Vanderbilt, heiress, jeans queen, dies at 95

Gloria Vanderbilt, heiress, jeans queen, dies at 95

Gloria Vanderbilt, the intrepid heiress, artist and romantic who began her extraordinary life as the ``poor little rich girl'' of the Great Depression, survived family tragedy and multiple marriages and reigned during the 1970s and `80s as a designer jeans pioneer, died Monday at the age of 95.

2019-06-18 11:17

K-fashion on the rise

K-fashion on the rise

As the status of Korean fashion in the world market has been rising partly thanks to the global success of some K-pop groups, companies have been increasingly expanding overseas.

2019-06-05 17:15

Narrowing K-beauty awareness gap

Narrowing K-beauty awareness gap

The growing overseas interest in Korean cosmetics has motivated Korean-American Judy Kim to found startup SOAK, a media platform dedicated to Korean beauty and lifestyle in Seoul, to raise awareness of Korean cosmetics for overseas consumers.

2019-05-14 16:31

Senior models rock catwalk

Senior models rock catwalk

Kim Chil-doo's dream has come true after four decades. The tall man who has been interested in fashion from a young age had to compromise his dreams due to economic difficulties. As a father and the main breadwinner of the household, he had forgotten about the goals of his youth. It was only last year when he finally made his dream come true and became a professional model, a...

Park Jin-hai | 2019-04-18 17:10

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