beyond closet ss12 lookbook

The latest lookbook for Beyond Closet by Korean designer Ko Tae Yong / 고태용 is a boyish, charming collection. Modeled by one of my favorite male models in Korea, it-boy Won Joong Kim / 김원중, the collection for spring/summer 2012 debuted today at Seoul Fashion Week. It contains shorts in various lengths, handsome check patterned jackets and shirts as well as a very enjoyable foliage pattern. Outside of Korea, Beyond Closet is stocked at Idiel showroom in New York.



















Here's a video of the finale:)


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Seoul's 10 Soul

The South Korean government has been pushing Seoul to become one of the world's major fashion cities and after a successful showing of Korean designers at Concept Korea during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York last fall, they recently debuted in Singapore at Seoul's 10 Soul. Take a look at this video and tell me your aren't psyched by what Seoul has to offer! (Also keep your eyes peeled for me on the catwalk in the ALANI & Jehee Sheen segments of the video as these were two of the shows I walked in during Seoul Fashion Week FW11).



Featuring 10 of Korea's up and coming fashion designers including ALANI, beyond closet, GENERAL IDEA, GROUNDWAVE, jaehwanlee paris, jardin de chouette, Jehee Sheen, KAAL E.SUKTAE, LEYII and Steve J & Yoni P, the designers each presented 3 'cruise' inspired outfits.  Check out Kokokoreano's coverage of the event HERE.


Also thanks to both Kokokoreano, a leading entertainment & fashion site which covers South Korean celebrities, and blogger asiaRasia of whutderrfakqizvat for giving me a heads up & emailing a scan of an interview about me that was featured in the 'Dynamic Seoul: All about Seoul Fashion' handout that was given to everyone who attended the Seoul's 10 Soul performance.  It was actually a translated & shortened version of the same interview I did for Harper's Bazaar in September of last year. I love that they included me in it! 








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beyond closet fw 2011/12 by ko tae yong

The Beyond Closet FW 2011/12 collection was once again entirely adorable. Each season designer Ko Tae Yong presents a theme such as 'Diary', 'Your Boyhood', 'Ordinary People' or this years 'Welcome Mr. B.C. Moving Company' and creates a very preppy, very innocent look reminiscent of childhood & the in-between years on the road to adulthood. The freckled moving men carrying boxes down the runway wore oh-so-Korean facemasks (worn when sick or during Yellow Dust season) along with shoulder bags & baseball caps bearing expressions like "Watch Out". There were a lot of checked patterns & quilted, utilitarian jackets with exterior bulky pockets in browns, greys, navys and,  as seen in a quite a few others collections this season, mustard. I especially enjoyed the lego-like moving man logo used as a pattern on a few of the flood pants & shirts.


designer Ko Tae Yong / 고태용























































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xoxo wallpaper

I've been working on my portfolio and decided to make wallpaper highlighting some of the best cover pics from parties & runways over the past two years on thexoxokids. I love how it turned out - so many memories! Maybe I'll even make it into a sticker or a poster or something...

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chadchad has something to say

/ Until now, thexoxokids.com has been a primarily visual experience of what Seoul has to offer in terms of real fashion on the streets, the always mad & ever crazy nightlife and the latest of what Korean designers have to offer on the runway. I let the pictures speak for themselves and I was happy to do just that. But for a variety of reasons, I now want thexoxokids to have more of a voice.

I've always been a bit shy about my writing, and the entire nature of blogging is putting a part of yourself on display for everyone to see. Which is why being just a photo blog appealed to me. But I seem to have a lot more time on my hands all of a sudden and I don't like that. I'm a busy person and am more creative & procrastinate less when I have a handful of things on the go at once. Being idle is my nightmare. Waiting around for something to change is a total waste of time. More and more I'm being asked by friends, readers, other bloggers and even fashion magazines & websites about my opinions on Korean designers and brands, places to shop & eat & party in Seoul, and even what to wear.  So why not speak up? And that's exactly what I'm going to do from now on.

I have a few ideas bouncing around including descriptions or how-to's of clothing I alter or outfits I put together, as well as a 'chadchad of the day' look into what I am wearing instead of just the fashion kids I find & photograph on the streets. Also I've started writing reviews on the runways shows I saw this past Seoul Collection. Click on the following links for what I thought of the men's wear this year (& of course to see the photos as well). Reviews of the women's collections are coming soon.

BON by Lee Jung Jae
MVIO by Han Sang Hyuk
D.GNAK by Kang Dong Jun
Resurrection by Juyoung Lee
Beyond Closet by Ko Taeyong
JUUN.J by Wookjun Jung
General Idea by Bumsuk Choi
Fahrenheit Homme by Du Young Jung
Groundwave by Sunho Kim & Jungeun Park
Leigh by Sang Hyun Leigh
Alani by Jae Hwan Kim
Roliat by Sungwan Hong

So here we go.  A new chapter of thexoxokids is about to begin. Big X's and big O's to all you fashion & party kids out there.  And since I'm going to be doing more talking, I expect more responses & comments from you too.  /

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got seoul - from oakazine issue no. 5

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