SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The secondhand clothing market has been long recognized as charity or thrift shops. These days, however, for young people dubbed Generation Z, buying pre-owned clothing is not only a cheaper way of buying T-shirts and shoes, but also a way to enjoy a new shopping experience through obtaining their [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — LVMH Chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault has discussed potential partnerships with top executives of South Korean department stores, officials said Tuesday, as the French luxury empire is seeking to boost its presence in Asia’s fourth-largest economy. Arnault held a series of separate meetings with top executives of three local [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — More people from the MZ generation, a Korean term referring to millennials and Generation Z, are buying branded fashion items from secondhand app markets. Bungaejangter, the operator of its namesake secondhand transactions app, revealed that approximately 75 percent of customers that used the “brand follow” features between September 2021 [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A number of popular Korean TV series including Netflix’s “The Glory” and the tvN series “Crash Course in Romance” are garnering attention for their fashion design. Park Yeon-jin, one of the high-school bullies in “The Glory” who works as a weather reporter as an adult, made waves with a [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of skincare devices hit a fresh high in 2022, data showed Friday, as people around the globe spent more money on beauty products amid eased social distancing rules. Exports of skincare devices, including light-emitting diode (LED) masks and massage tools, reached US$353 million last year, up [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Fashion Week, South Korea’s biggest biannual fashion show, will kick off next month for a five-day run to showcase 30 Korean fashion houses, officials said Wednesday. The fashion show for the 2023 fall-winter season will be held from March 15-19 at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in central [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Household & Health Care Ltd. said Monday it will unveil a mini tattoo printer at next week’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 in Barcelona. The cosmetics company said the IMPRINTU device uses vegan cosmetics ink to print images on the skin or certain fabrics. Users can choose from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Major cosmetics companies in South Korea are raising prices, citing an increase in the price of raw materials, amid a hike in demand for cosmetics products after the lifting of indoor mask mandates. According to industry sources, foreign cosmetic brands Dior Beauty and Tom Ford Beauty, which have boutiques [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of consumers looking for cosmetics and perfumes is increasing rapidly as the government eased indoor mask-wearing restrictions. Fashion shopping platform ZigZag reported a 67 percent jump in lipstick sales between Jan. 20-30 compared to December 2022. Sales of lip balms and lip tints jumped by 23 percent [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean fashion and cosmetics retailer Shinsegae International Inc. unveiled new sneakers made through a collaboration with American hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg. The company said it will start selling #PLEINDOGG, a sneaker collection that Swiss luxury sportswear brand Philipp Plein developed in collaboration with the U.S. rapper. Philipp Plein, [...]