How would you describe your style.
Poetic garments which means I think it’s the same to design garments and to write poems to me in the way that garments can be taken in many meanings for each person to wear them the same as words of poem for readers.
Which materials do you prefer to use and why? How do you choose them?
It depends on the designs, but I prefer to use stiff fabrics that shape well as I wanted it to be. But soft fabrics also sometimes present me things I couldn’t even imagine with their randomness.
How do you start the design process for a new collection?
I like to start with a simple word to come together things scattered in my imagination. It sometimes takes more time than drafting the idea. And then I prefer to make shapes inspired by the word before making choices for fabrics, that is to say, shape before fabric. But this changes often when I come across nice fabrics I’ve never seen.
How important is the connection between art and fashion to you?
Honestly, I’ve been thinking that fashion is not one of subcategories of art, but it has own language different with what art has done. I think it’s more like architecture in that way that material and shape are affecting immediately on people in touch with. So I think art and fashion is fighting with the boundary line between them which makes both of them profound.
What do you wear? Do you have a favorite piece in your wardrobe?
I love to wear garments I made. But favorite piece is a jacket of YOHJI YAMAMOTO. Actually I’m one of big fans of his works since I was a high school student.
Which city or culture has influenced you the most in terms of fashion?
Seoul.
How do you imagine the wardrobe of the future?
I reckon that shapes won’t be that different with what we are familiar with now though, fabrics seem to evolve drastically into things friendly with the environment. And I imagine shapes would get more genderless than now.
What projects are you currently working on?
I have just launched another label named STYX for 2025 F/W season.
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