SOUTH KOREA: JAPANESE/SOUTH KOREAN FASHIONS DESIGNERS DISPLAY THEIR SPRING/SUMMER 2003 DESIGNS

Record ID: 860155

  • Title: SOUTH KOREA: JAPANESE/SOUTH KOREAN FASHIONS DESIGNERS DISPLAY THEIR SPRING/SUMMER 2003 DESIGNS
  • Date: 21st October 2002
  • Summary: VARIOUS, MODEL WEARING PASTEL BLUE TOP AND GREEN SKIRT DESIGN BY MIDO FUJITA SMV AUDIENCE VARIOUS, MODELS WEARING PINSTRIPE SKIRT AND TROUSERS BY SHIN JUNG-IM
  • Embargoed: 5th November 2002 12:00
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  • Location: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
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  • Country: South Korea
  • Topics: Business,Entertainment
  • Reuters ID: LVA3G0NRI1XUB4DHBMANC2192VCW
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  • Story Text: Fashion designers from across South Korea and Japan have unveiled their Spring and Summer collection for 2003.
    Models sashayed down the catwalk displaying the Spring/Summer 2003 designs at a fashion show in Seoul's trade exhibition centre.
    From psychedelic themes to a Shanghai motif, designers showed off their brave and bold collections at the annual event.
    Organisers said they wanted to develop the Korean fashion industry as leader of the region, and eventually the world.
    "I believe the Asian fashion will be the centre of world's fashion trend (in the year of 2010). I like to see South Korea to be the leader of the Asian Fashion. However, we had better work with Japanese fashion industry for a while," said Gong Sok-bung (pronounced as GOHNG SEOK-BOONG), chairman of Korea Fashion Association.
    The Korean Association also invited two Japanese designers, adding glitz and glamour to the collection.
    One Korean designer, Choi Chang-ho (pronounced as CHOE CHAHNG-HOH), was inspired by the Chinese city of Shanghai, contrasting the old with the new.
    "(The theme is) Shanghai in my mind. I expressed the city of Shanghai where I live in my works," he said.
    Others had the environment in their designs.
    "With an environmental message, I wanted to go for the kitsch so I made something unusual," said Japanese designer Mido Fujita, an activist campaigning against forest destruction.
    One Korean designer Shin Jung-im (pronounced as SHIN JEONG-IM) was more playful with his designs.
    "Items can change, from skirt to one-piece, or to cloak.
    Or from T-shirts to skirts, it all depends on your mind," he said.
    A total of 26 artists will show off their collections until Thursday (October 24).
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