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Coexistence Unisex Fashion by Suk-Kyung Lee Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Suk-Kyung Lee for fashion, apparel and garment design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ Coexistence Unisex Fashion by Suk-Kyung Lee has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Coexistence Unisex Fashion
This collection reinterprets the Hanbok (traditional Korean costume) which is the base of the silhouettes. The way to dress experimentally gives freedom and creativity to all fronts. The suit Coexistence combines a top, a dress, and trouser; however, this dress reuses the jacket pattern and the top, the pattern of the collar of the Denim Long coat. The Jacket Pleated comes from the pattern of the Asymmetric Pants. Is this a jacket or a trouser?
About Suk-Kyung Lee
On April 18, 1980, Suk-Kyung Lee was born in Busan, Korea. From her earliest childhood, Lee is passionate about drawing, she creates silhouettes and already associates different outfits. Later, she begins her first work in a clothing store and likes to combine pieces from different collections. She also plays on the different subjects and this experience develops the richness of her tastes and her creativity. Convinced that this is the way she should follow, Lee moved to Tokyo to study fashion. The second act of his life begins in 2009 in Japan. She learns language, culture and, although close to Korea, she is alone in an unknown country.
Award Record
With this recognition, Suk-Kyung Lee is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design Award
The A' Fashion Design Award is an international fashion design competition recognizing good fashion designs by best fashion designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to fashion designers, apparel designers, garment designers and textile designers from all countries. Entries typically include runway collections, dresses, suits, skirts, outerwear and jackets. Awarded fashion designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/fashion
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/88213
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/88213
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!88213
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/251525
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.sksklee.com
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
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press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Coexistence Unisex Fashion
- Function
- Unisex Fashion
- Category
- Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design
- Discipline
- Fashion Design
- Industry
- Fashion
- Colors
- Medium Violet Red, Dark Slate Gray, Chocolate, Yellow Green and Lavender
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Suk-Kyung Lee
- Country
- Switzerland
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #88213
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer Sean Macleod, Coexistence, 2019.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The Coexistence collection 2019-2020 fall, winter is inspired by the values of community life. In this collection, a mix and match style of HANBOK (traditional Korean costume) merges different colors and materials. The way to dress experimentally gives freedom and creativity to all fronts; a universal message without distinction of language, culture or origin. Diversified materials, as well as the quality of the finishing and the unique style, are an integral part of the DNA of these clothes; all enhanced with a mix of custom patterns that have been printed with calligraphy and multiple colors.
- Inspiration
- There was a girl who was 8 years old. She was alone at the corner of a park in Geneva, watching the children playing there. She was confused, the children were speaking French. She could not fit into this group. 20 years later, she became a fully integrated person. This is my story but your story as well. In Geneva, people from different backgrounds live mixing together. Sometimes they encounter obstacles due to different cultures, different languages. They have different perspectives to look at the same object. Through these perspectives, the truth becomes the lie, the lie becomes the truth.
- Research
- One day, I was visiting the MAMCO (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva) to find inspiration. I saw a painting containing a multitude of times the letter Y. Although I thought I saw X, there was only Y, no X. At that moment, imagining an X in the middle of all these Y, I told myself that this X is like me; a stranger in the middle of all the inhabitants of Geneva. However, each of these people can feel being an X and see everyone else as Y. Hence, we are all the Y of someone else.
- Challenge
- I wanted to start from the Hanbok and reinterpret it with a modern image. At first, being so much used to the Hanbok' standards, I was not able to see it differently, to bring something new. I have tried different approaches; on fabrics, applications,... many attempts to overcome it. Eventually, the use of denim, reflective materials and cotton printed with various language motifs resulted in a collection combining modern and traditional images in coexistence and harmony.
- Realization and Technology
- I drew two fabric prints, one using calligraphy and, the other, multiple colors. In both cases, the pattern represents the integration. Also, I created a quilted with two different colors of denim for this collection.
- Operation and Interaction
- All designs in this collection are reshaping the Hanbok. They break away from the stereotypes of clothing's definitions by experimenting with their position and their functionality.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in October 2018 in Geneva and finished in February 2019. It was exhibited in Le Bal des Createurs, Geneva in May 2019.
- Specifications
- This Collection consists of 1 coat, 2 jackets, 1 jumpsuit, 3 pants, and regular M/L size.
- Keywords
- Perspective, Hanbok, Deconstructionism, Coexistence, Geneva, Unisex
