Featured: Mason Jung

Who is Korean designer Mason Jung?

MASON JUNG

Photo source: Noovo

Mason Juns is the winner of “Fashion Collection of the Year“ at ITS#EIGHT. He was born in Seoul, Korea, completed a BA in Clothing and Textiles at Kyung Hee University.

He also served 26 months in the Korean military for national duty. Mason Jung's experience gave him concepts about formality that is said to be reflected in his work. Jung went on to work for commercial fashion labels in Seoul. In 2007, he moved to London to present his work to a broader audience. Jung completed a Master's Degree at Royal College of Art where he spent two years.

The designer and his designs are featured in Huffington Post described as very "narrative about an undiscovered society and the rebirth of true craftmanship."

A fitting salute here to Mason Jung!

Valentina Zannoni's pitch on Vogue Italy's Editor

Valentina Zannoni, Swide editor in chief takes a dig on fashion icon Franca Sozzani the famous chief editor of Vogue Italy, who has outlived many a contemporary and peer in the fashion literati circle. Zannoni writes: 

"Vogue Italia is considered to be the most revolutionary of Vogues, and Franca Sozzani holds the banner of the most inventive and sometimes controversial editor in chief of them all.

Franca Sozzani. Photo credit: Styleite.com

"Anna Wintour may have been the first to put a celebrity (Madonna) on the cover of Vogue and not a model in the 1990s, but Sozzani chose to highlight issues such as war, ecological disasters, plus size models and plastic surgery on the cover of her issues. 

"To celebrate Sozzani’s “Revolution in 25 years of Fashion” at Vogue Italia we made a gallery with her most “revolutionary covers” from the annals to highlight her courage, inventiveness and commitment to fashion."

Franca will have a long way to go before leaving the fashion scene. That's my pitch, but it will take a miracle for newbies to have the same mettle to surpass the Sozzani magic.

Most Fashionable Museum in New York City

This is the most fashionable museum that will be found in Manhattan, New York City: The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology or Museum at FIT.

Fashion Museum in Manhattan New York's 7th Ave. (Photo credit: New York Hotels)

The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology - MFIT, offers exhibits, scheduled gallery tours, provides an array of Fashion publications and showcases a large number of collections in couture, fashion history, with more than 500,000 garments and accessories in its stable. Its a veritable treasure trove for students, researchers, experts in fashion. Read more from here.

South Korea fashion penetrates Japan

SoKor fashion "makes inroads in Japan" says Korea Herald.

Dolly & Molly shop in the Shibuya Parco department store. (photo courtesy of The Japan News)

The reasons are many. According to Korea Herald, among the leading factors are: fashion enterpreneurs' confidence in Japan’s love for K-pop, television and other pop culture devices that can into revenues in the fashion industry. South Korea couture, cosmetics, other brands are rapidly establishing a name for their brands in the fashion market in Japan. Due to their excellent craftsmanship, South Korean companies are also known to quickly adopt cutting-edge fads.

CNN: South Korea's new refrigerator pants

American news network CNN depicts South Korean new fashion trend as quaint, "at least they're cool," it says.

The CNN feature says:

Like much of Northeast Asia, South Korea is enduring a massive heat wave -- the country nearly had a blackout Monday with power demand reaching record heights -- and South Koreans have been scrambling to keep cool as best they can.

Unlike, say, the past 20 fashion trends that all South Koreans embraced and discarded before anyone else knew they were a thing (neon skinny jeans, winged sneakers, lightning-bolt-shaped plastic earrings, platform Converses), the latest hottest fashion trend is based on the "cooling" functionality