Well, I have been wondering how I could start my new blog without doing anything too cheesy. I thought maybe it was time to give a shot to something which was in my mind for a long time. Perhaps, I would get some self-satisfaction that I never really had with the old one. Whilst this unstable and so-so mindset of mine is not completed (yet?), I will talk about everything that I seem to like and not to. Let's not talk for the sake of talking right ?
Ever since I was a kid, attracted by international cultures, I have found myself drawn to Japanese and Korean culture. Fashion shouldn't be the synonym of Paris, New York and all the so-called holy land thing that takes the fashion planet over. At least for me and for many people out there, Fashion rhymes with everywhere in this immensely vast world. You can find your inspiration all over the map. Today, my mind dwells on a korean designer who has a bright future in front of her, Su Jinn Kim and her Soulpot Studio. The name of the brand says itself: find the essence of the soul through fashion. In order to show the soulpot, she combines artistry, technicality, and anthropology, while using her strong Korean traditional culture, she gives a natural sense to our modern days.
When I first read the collection fall/winter Seoul Re trace's presentation, the title of our french bien-aimé Marcel Proust's major work popped out: A la Recherche du Temps Perdu or In Search of Lost Time. The correlation between the two could be faraway. To get things in perspective, this work takes an interest in the reflection of memory, time, and literature. All those scattered elements find themselves being connected one to another (simply speaking). Well, I felt 70% of that divided-but-connected things in that collection. Seoul Re trace is about redraw eleven districts in Seoul in one and only project. It is about taking each history, people, atmosphere into the representation of one of a kind city.
"Represent the whole", to take Su Jinn Kim's word, is the main point of this collection. The talented designer, using an achromatic color palate, retraces the past and present in its own way. During Korea War in the 50's, Seoul suffered from many battles. (Not only the city but the whole country had been destroyed.) Hopefully, they gained USA's help and managed to rebuild and make what the country and Seoul are now in no time. Su Jinn Kim is not only reinterpreting the urban, sportswear, cozy generation, but through blackish color as grey, navy blue, wine, she redefines the black days of Seoul. Not to forget this fall/winter season, structured padded black coat, pulls made of mohair and wood tweed-ed coat might be in your dressing.
"Hope message" to translate the feeling that I have when I see this collection. Seoul is not a young city, yet in the space of couple decades, it became a place-to-be, always in move, noisy and arty. Either you are in Hongdae shopping, or in Itaewon dancing in some clubs, the whole city breaths in unison. This collection is the same. In this resides a great harmony. The balance is also physically represented through her patchwork technique. The cuts are minimal, raw and pure which are made by the thread's continuity. Through her work, the feeling of "undone" is far from being bad. Instead, it gives another dimension to her pieces. Could it be a message that Seoul is far far far from being completed thus art and fashion could be a way to accomplish it ?
As Marcel Proust's work, Art seems to be the answer.
" At every moment the artist has to listen to his instinct, and it is this that makes art the most real of all things, the most austere school of life, the true last judgment." - Marcel Proust
Soulpot Studio 14 F/W collection reached my soul. What about yours ?
photos credit: soulpotstudio.tumblr.com
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