SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Italian luxury label Gucci hosted its Cruise 2024 collection fashion show at Geunjeongjeon, the main hall of Gyeongbok Palace, in Seoul on Tuesday night. Geunjeongjeon was used for kings to hold official functions or receive foreign envoys during the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). Gucci’s first Cruise collection show in Asia [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Italian luxury brand Gucci will hold a fashion show at a royal palace in Seoul next month, about six months after the event was canceled due to the Itaewon crowd crush, the company said Friday. Gucci plans to showcase its 2024 cruise collection in front of Geunjeongjeon, the main [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Louis Vuitton is set to open its first fashion show in South Korea at the end of the month, industry officials said Tuesday. The French luxury brand is set to showcase its 2023 pre-fall collection at the Some Sevit, a man-made floating island on the south of the Han [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Luxury fashion brand Gucci has called off a fashion show scheduled to take place at a royal place in Seoul after criticism arose over fashion magazine photos taken at the former presidential compound of Cheong Wa Dae, cultural heritage officials said Monday. Gucchi had planned to hold the Gucci [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Fashion Week, South Korea’s biggest biannual fashion show, will be held fully in person in October, following two years of scaled-down events due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Seoul city government said Monday. Seoul Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2023 will kick off on Oct. 11 at the Dongdaemun Design [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced Monday that it will hold the 2021 Seoul Fashion Week for Fall/Winter from March 22-27. The fashion show will take place surrounded by famous artifacts and artworks owned by the National Museum of Korea and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation has introduced a modern reinterpretation of “hanbok,” traditional Korean clothing, worn by princesses during the late Joseon era. The agency published a series of videos of a contact-free fashion show, which have already racked up more than 700,000 views. The Cultural Heritage Administration and [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Department Store said Wednesday it will hold the industry’s first no-guest fashion show to help small and medium-sized fashion brands suffering from the aftermath of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The fashion show will feature 25 Korean small and mid-sized fashion brands. The show will be broadcast live on [...]
BUSAN, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Fashion industry experts and executives from South Korea and 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) kicked off a joint fashion festival in Busan on Friday ahead of the southern port city’s hosting of the Korea-ASEAN special summit next week. The festival, titled Korea-ASEAN Fashion [...]
SUWON, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The lobby on the first floor of Suwon City Hall in Gyeonggi Province has turned into a fashion show for shorts. About 300 city hall officials gathered in the lobby as models dressed in shorts walked out on a runway set up in the middle of the lobby with [...]