Date: 22nd December 2019 (Sunday)
Time: 12nn – 9:00pm
Place: Hotel Soosunhwa Café, 4F, 17 Chungmu-ro 7-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul Korea
Ever since 2017, Vacant Labelhas aspired to inspire, leading to a one-off goal: to bring Korean independent menswear brands to the rest of the world.
Emerging designers from all across South Korea have moulded Vacant Label into their newly-established home, setting up a refreshing center of enticing yet groundbreaking menswear fashion.
December 2019 will see the very first VLxED Pop-Up Store happening in Seoul, Korea. Hosted by the organization’s affiliates at Hotel Sooshunhwa Café, designers will have the chance of showcasing limited edition designs, exclusively produced for the one-day event (directly from their respective latest collections). During this event, you’ll have the chance to see some of the coolest brands in town like BIRD CHE, the Stolen Garment, Ki Lee <Bag>, Esopie, YoungOh (00000), and FAN YOUNG.
Roam-around, meet and great chats, drinks, and music delights are fully granted. Talents’ pieces will be brought to life on the catwalk, tackled by a DJ and lots more to follow.
BIRD CHE‘s identity can be defined as “Nostalgic Vintage”. “We hope to create nostalgic products and stories with high-quality and eco-friendly fabrics.”
There aren’t any solid frames that regulate esopie. “We explore and take risks to reacg new heights in creativity, but also strive to find the balance to broaden wearability.”
1/5 Tailoring + 1/5 Tech + 1/5 Quality Finishing + 1/5 Meniac + 1/5 Youth Culture = Fan Young
KI LEE is an accessories brand that embodies the link between SCI-FI imagery and innovative eco-friendly materials, evoking fantastical imaginations of the future and a sense of hopeful agency in shaping the world to come.
Jungwoo Park, a.k.a. Woo Park participated in the 2017 St Martins-in-the-Fields show where he showed his graduation collection again with twelve other graduates. The show, however, took an unexpected turn when one of Woo Park’s exhibited garments was stolen by a trespasser after the show opened. The show that will forever accompany the very last piece of the STOLEN GARMENT to walk the streets.
Based in Seoul, “00000” reinterprets the boundaries between past and present, the end of analog and the start of digital.
UD Ibiza has announced a multi-year partnership with Brain Dead, making the Los Angeles-based brand the club’s Official Technical Sponsor starting from the 2026/27 season.
PUMA and SAYSKY have unveiled Back to Business, the final chapter of their collaboration, built around the mindset of runners who carry the sport into every part of their day.
C2H4, the menswear brand based between Los Angeles and Shanghai, has launched the FW26 extension of its 012 Collection, adding new seasonal styles to its annual release.
Orb has partnered with Evan Mock and his lifestyle label Wahine on a limited-edition fragrance oil that captures the feeling of a day on O’ahu’s North Shore.
Moving between the raw energy of Berlin’s underground and pop, Luca Eck embraces fluidity as a creative force, refusing to fit neatly into just one box.
Champion has announced a global partnership with V of BTS, introducing the internationally acclaimed artist as the face of its new True Champion campaign.
The fourth chapter of dunhill’s Heritage in Motion series turns to the Driving Jacket, a modern expression of the leather garments Alfred Dunhill developed for the earliest motorists.
Actor William Franklyn-Miller photographed by Michiel Meewis and styled by Gregory Russill, for the cover story of Fucking Young!’s TRANSPARENCY issue.
Saint Laurent Rive Droite Beijing presents a photography exhibition by Chinese artist No.223 (Lin Zhipeng), curated by Anthony Vaccarello, on view from 6 August to 11 September in celebration of Qixi.
Stone Island has launched The Calm and the Chaos, a new creative project that examines the hardcore and metalcore scenes through the communities that have kept them alive across generations.
Barry Brandon, founder of ICONIQA, discusses queer community building, nightlife as activism, the limits of allyship, and creating spaces of radical self-expression in Barcelona and beyond.
For Issue 28, TRANSPARENCY, we explore the shifting relationship between what is revealed and what remains concealed, questioning ideas of authenticity, identity, vulnerability, and self-expression in an increasingly exposed world.
