The Korea Now! exhibition will highlight the extraordinary panorama of contemporary Korean fashion and design. A selection of of established designers are featured, alongside a broad overview of the emerging generation. Young designers selections were made based upon work inspired by contemporary urban cultures and mythologies.
The exhibition shows their close ties with their native culture, whose rich ancestral heritage is its ability to assimilate all forms of modernity.
The exhibition’s artistic director, SUH Young-hee, an influential personality in the Korean fashion and fashion photography world, expresses her own original vision of fashion creation in her country in her non-chronological arrangement of the exhibition, organised around the five cardinal colors of the tradition Korean spectrum.
In traditional Korean aesthetics, red, yellow, black, blue and white have a complex symbolism. In the exhibition, each color evokes the work of one creator, emphasising his or her dominant expressive note.
Korea Now! explores this poetic dimension and invites us to reflect on the cultural dimension of our sensibility. The exhibition design by the architect and designer LIM Tae-hee sets these creations in abstract polygonal structures subverting the western principle of perspective.
For the event, in partnership with the Hanbok Advancement Center, the Musée des Arts décoratifs is inviting a contemporary Parisian creator to design one or several silhouettes with these traditional silks to be shown alongside Korean creations. This initiative reflects the fact that fashion design is now a major aspect of Franco-Korean cultural exchanges.
Korea Now! Design, Craft, Fashion And Graphic
Now on display until 14 February 2016
Les Arts Décoratifs
107 Rue de Rivoli
75001, Paris
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