At South Korea’s recent fashion week, which just wrapped in Seoul, naughty was nice. The hint of eroticism and kink that underscored some of the best shows of the international season—especially Marc Jacobs’ namesake show and his Fall collection for Louis Vuitton—has made it to the Far East, too. But here in Seoul, even hedonism [...]

The Fashion Almanac is predicting winter 2010 will be a cold one—at least, you could believe as much from the endless furs that swaddled models on the runways of New York, Milan, Paris, and now Seoul. (Cynics might argue the deep pockets of show-sponsoring furriers have a little something to do with it, too.) But [...]

In Korea, girls still giggle. On a popular talk show, housewives compete to thread needles, shred radishes, and change babies in the least amount of time. And as Hong Hyejin, the designer of the excellent, intellectual Studio K line, describes, “At 11 a.m., women will head to the department store to meet their girlfriends. They [...]

Korean women are hardly the only ones with crushes on Carrie Bradshaw, her crew, and the city that nurtures them, but the designers at Seoul fashion week are uniquely adept at combining sexy cuts with innovative artistic visions of the city. In Vack Yuun Zung’s theatrical, futuristic runway show, inspired by the Chinese sci-fi film [...]

Many of the models walking the shows at the mainstream “Seoul Collection, Discover Korean Power” SETEC venue during Seoul fashion week didn’t do any favors for the clothes. There seemed to be little reason why they’d been chosen, apart from one common trait—more than half were Caucasian. “Designers think European models are more professional or [...]