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Published on Sep 17, 2016
패션으로 보는 한국 역사 100년
Fashion is not only a way to express oneself, it's a reflection of social and cultural changes.
An exhibition in Seoul featuring 100 years of Korean fashion offers a glimpse into history.
Park Se-young tells us more.
In the early 20th century, Western culture was making its way into Korea's Confucian society.
Style-conscious
men began to wear bowlers and fedoras instead of Korean traditional
hats, and modern girls put on Western-style dresses and heels instead of
'hanbok.'
This exhibition in central Seoul is showcasing 100 years
of Korean fashion, from the 1910s to the present, and features work by
60 designers.
First-generation designers Choi Kyung-ja and Norah
Noh, who got their start in the 1950s, added a Korean twist to Western
fashion trends.
In the 1970s, with their bell-bottoms and acoustic guitars, designers expressed freedom.
Color television and pop culture in the 80s brought riding pants and jackets with power shoulders.
Since the 90s, fashion in Korea has made rapid progress with the Korean wave... and is evolving into a style dubbed K-fashion.
From
fashion items worn by celebrities to clothes with stories behind them,
the exhibition takes visitors through the changes in trend and
atmosphere of a century of style.
"Koreans have great
interest in fashion and are very style conscious. So we can see which
trends were pulled from which time period. It's a very fun exhibition."
Highlighting
the past, present and future of Korean fashion and Korean history,...
"Mode & Moments" runs through September 22nd.
Park Se-young, Arirang News.
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