SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — With Koreans scrambling to travel with the lifting of social distancing rules, the so-called ‘resort look’, a style of fashion suited for vacation, is gaining popularity. Shinsegae International Inc., the apparel arm of retail giant Shinsegae, proposed one-piece dresses, see-through and mesh clothing as upcoming fashion trends for the [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Online shopping has become a new normal in everyday life amid the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, with fashion platforms segmented by age group. Brandi, a well-known fashion ecommerce application for women, recently launched a new shopping app PLARE that specifically targets women in their 30s. The company pointed out that [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Online shopping malls specializing in women’s fashion are going beyond fashion to tap into demand for beauty and lifestyle products. Zigzag, a fashion platform run by Kakao Style Corp., opened up a ‘beauty section’ on Friday where it sells beauty products. The ‘beauty section’ introduces more than 200 beauty [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government on Wednesday signed an agreement with Tranoi, the official trade fair of Paris Fashion Week, to help South Korean designers expand to the European fashion market, officials said. Under the memorandum of understanding on the “nurturing of global fashion brands and development of the fashion [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Expectations for the normalization of economic activities are growing despite the spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus and such expectations have lead to an increase in consumption of spring clothes and color cosmetics. According to Hyundai Department Store, a major department store chain, sales of women’s and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — ‘Fancy’ is expected to be the new keyword for women’s clothes in this year’s spring-summer season. Samsung C&T Corp.’s fashion group picked Y2K fashion as this year’s spotlight fashion trend. Y2K fashion refers to a fashion trend that used to be popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Collaboration between automakers and fashion companies is actively underway in recent days, with the range and pattern of such collaboration becoming more diverse. Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, joined hands with outdoor brand Eider last month to release a limited edition of the shoe ‘Quantum Niro.’ This shoe [...]
NEW YORK, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – JOOR, the world’s leading digital wholesale platform, today released its end of year figures for 2021. These data points confirm the continued acceleration of digital adoption among brands and retailers, and that even with the return of in-person markets and events, electronic B2B commerce continues to play an important [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — With the rise of what is known as “the body positivity movement,” whose main purpose centers around addressing unrealistic body standards, unrealistically tall and skinny mannequins are being replaced by plus-size ones. SPAO, a specialty retailer of private label apparel (SPA) brand run by E-Land World, will introduce mannequins [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — In the wake of ethical consumerism, a new fashion line-up has been introduced for pet lovers interested in the promotion of animals rights. Galleria Department Store, operated by Hanwha Solutions Corp., unveiled the Vegan Tiger pop-up store as part of the Right! EARTH project, which promotes the cause of [...]