Coexistence 男女通用时尚 by Suk-Kyung Lee is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 时装、服饰与服装设计 Competition Category.

铜时装· 2020

Coexistence 男女通用时尚

by Suk-Kyung Lee

Client: Suk-Kyung Lee

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 时装 Category

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The Design

About Coexistence 男女通用时尚

该系列重新诠释了韩服（韩国传统服装）的轮廓。实验上的着装方式为各个领域带来了自由和创造力。西装共存结合了上衣，连衣裙和裤子。但是，这件衣服重新使用了夹克图案和牛仔长外套大衣领的图案。夹克打褶来自不对称裤子的图案。这是外套还是裤子？

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Coexistence 男女通用时尚是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Coexistence 男女通用时尚将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Coexistence 男女通用时尚出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

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.
Dimensions & Packaging: This Collection consists of 1 coat, 2 jackets, 1 jumpsuit, 3 pants, and regular M/L size.
Tags: Perspective, Hanbok, Deconstructionism, Coexistence, Geneva, Unisex
Production 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.
Design 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.
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.
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.
Project Duration: 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.
Operation Flow: 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.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Suk-Kyung Lee, 2019.
Team Members: Suk-Kyung Lee
Image Credits: Image #1:Photographer Sean Macleod, Coexistence, 2019.
Image #2:Photographer Sean Macleod, Coexistence, 2019.
Image #3:Photographer Sean Macleod, Coexistence, 2019.
Image #4:Photographer Sean Macleod, Coexistence, 2019.
Image #5:Photographer Sean Macleod, Coexistence, 2019.