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Korea’s homegrown nanosatellite successfully launches into space
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[Herald Interview] 'Amid aging population, Korea to invite more young professionals from overseas'
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Nicaragua shuts down Seoul embassy
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Hybe's multilabel system tested amid conflict with Ador
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Rocket engine expert, ex-NASA exec to lead Korea's new space agency
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SNU profs to suspend treatment for one day
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SK hynix pledges W20tr to ramp up DRAM production at home
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Over-50s, men, single-person households take up majority of those filing for bankruptcy
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Ministry denies blame for Jamboree debacle
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Pianist Cho Seong-Jin named Berlin Philharmonic's artist-in-residence
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Brazil’s designer brothers turn chaos into art
SAO PAULO (AFP) -- Designers Humberto and Fernando Campana improvise and explore in their quest for strange new creations. But their biggest inspiration is on their doorstep: everyday, discarded objects in their colorful and chaotic homeland, Brazil.Armchairs made from rag dolls, stuffed toy crocodiles or hundreds of yards of woven rope are among the offbeat creations that have made the brothers renowned in the design world.In their sun-flooded Sao Paulo studio, a team of artisans sews leather a
July 14, 2016
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Paris couture reaches creative climax in Valentino, Saab
PARIS (AP) - Paris couture week reached a creative climax Wednesday with strong showings from Maison Margiela, Valentino and Elie Saab.Here are some of the highlights of the last of the fall-winter 2016 collections.Maison MargielaJohn Galliano continues to raise the profile of Maison Margiela. In Wednesday’s ever-creative show, the Gibraltar-born Briton went one step further in stamping the unique brand of Galliano Romanticism on the once-minimalist house. These styles and artistry have been sor
July 7, 2016
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Fashion rebels Vetements stitch up haute couture
PARIS (AFP) -- Rebel brand Vetements sent fashion into a spin Sunday with an haute couture show that broke all the rules, appropriating clothes and shoes from 17 other brands and recutting them in its own irreverent neo-Soviet street style.The most talked about brand in fashion had been invited to show as a guest in the elite, uniquely Parisian events, seen as the pinnacle of exclusive made-to-measure clothing.But instead of bowing to couture’s near century-long tradition of handmade artistry, V
July 4, 2016
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Iconic clubs feted in celebrity-filled Paris menswear shows
PARIS (AP) -- Actor Robert Pattinson took center stage at Dior Homme's menswear show in Paris that celebrated the styles of Britain’s iconic retro club, The Haeuroienda -- against a theatrical fairground backdrop that had celebrity attendees gawping. Kenzo, too, paid homage to legendary retro clubs in a show dedicated to the flamboyant styles once worn at New York music venues.Here are some of the highlights of the spring-summer 2017 collections.Rise of Robert PattinsonPattinson, who has success
June 26, 2016
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Top trends from Milan menswear shows
MILAN (AFP) - The future of exclusively menswear catwalk shows is in doubt, but the cult of the “see and be seen party” is alive and well.Highlights from the Milan menswear Spring-Summer 2017 fashion shows, which concluded here Tuesday, included Dsquared2 duo Dean and Dan Caten’s bash in their own Ceresio restaurant, which boasts spectacular views of the Milanese skyline.Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana treated the crowds outside their show to glasses of bubbly before hosting their party at Bi
June 23, 2016
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Japan's Uniqlo targets global stature with fashion identity
TOKYO (AP) -- Japanese clothing chain Uniqlo has leveraged its prowess in mass production to build a fashion empire filled with shelves upon shelves of affordable, good quality items like down jackets, underwear and T-shirts. Now the 17-nation, 1,734-store retailer is on a quest to beat Western giants like Gap, H&M and Zara to become the world's biggest apparel-maker.In the overcrowded, highly competitive casual fashion market, size is important, but no guarantee of success: Analysts say Uniqlo’
June 16, 2016
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Public School declares in off-calendar show: We need leaders
NEW YORK (AP) -- We need leaders. Beware false gods. Wear cool clothes.The design duo Maxwell Osborne and Dao-Yi Chow opted out of the New York Fashion Week frenzy to present their latest ready-to-wear collection Tuesday -- instead of the usual February or September -- against a dystopian backdrop that served as an Orwellian wake-up call.Before their models race-walked down the runway, sirens blaring, workers stood silent in assembly lines, their faces covered in black mesh, hands hidden in yell
June 9, 2016
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Beyonce steals show as surprise honoree at fashion awards
NEW YORK (AP) -- In a surprise appearance, Beyonce delighted a glittery fashion crowd Monday evening, showing up unannounced to accept the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s Fashion Icon award.Usually, organizers announce the name of the Fashion Icon winner well in advance, but this year they kept it under wraps until the end of the ceremony, when designer Diane von Furstenberg took the stage to introduce the pop superstar, saying she was everything women aspire to be. Designer Calvin Kle
June 7, 2016
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Dior takes Parisian style to Britain’s countryside
WOODSTOCK, England (AFP) -- Dior staged a catwalk show of its “Cruise collection” at the majestic Blenheim Palace in the Oxfordshire countryside Tuesday, in a lavish event reflecting the growing importance of between-seasons collections.The fashion event at the 18th-century stately home, the birthplace of Britain’s wartime prime minister Winston Churchill, was a nod to the past for the French design house, which held events there twice in the 1950s.The brand’s Swiss creative duo of designers, Lu
June 2, 2016
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Many brands opt out of Milan men‘s runway shows this year
MILAN (AP) -- The Milan Fashion Week men’s calendar is full of holes. Zegna, Calvin Klein, Cavalli, Costume National, Ermanno Scervino and Bottega Veneta are among the fashion houses that have opted not to do runway shows in June. Carlo Capasa, head of the National Chamber of Italian Fashion, said Tuesday that fashion brands are experimenting with their strategy and using menswear to do it. Capasa said he expects the shifts to presentations instead of runway shows will “give energy to fashio
June 2, 2016
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Tokyo museum exhibits Issey Miyake‘s constant innovations
TOKYO (AP) -- Although he’s behind one of the biggest fashion brands to come out of Japan, Issey Miyake detests being called a fashion designer. Maybe a designer, even a sculptor, but not that frivolous, trend-watching, conspicuous consumption known as fashion. What he has pursued since he started in the 1970s is more timeless. His down-to-earth clothing is meant to celebrate the human body. And it’s anyone’s or everyone’s body -- any race, build, size or age.“The work of Miyake Issey,” at the N
June 1, 2016
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Korean fashion designers to open pop-up store in Paris
A pop-up store showcasing creations by leading Korean fashion designers will open at the multibrand store L’Eclaireur from June 22-28 in Paris. The temporary shop-in-shop will feature women’s and men’s clothing by 10 Korean designers who regularly participate in Seoul Fashion Week and have been selected as “Seoul’s 10 Soul” to represent the Korean fashion scene. The program, run by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, offers financial, marketing and logistical support for the selected designers i
May 31, 2016
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Korean pavilion opens at Venice Architecture Biennale
VENICE, Italy (Yonhap) -- Korea on Thursday unveiled its pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, Italy, two days ahead of the official opening on Saturday. The biannual event, under the title of “Reporting from the Front,” is directed by Alejandro Aravena, the Chilean winner of this year’s Pritzker prize. He is widely known for his long-term dedication to using architecture to achieve social equality.“There are several battles that need to be won and several frontie
May 26, 2016
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Korean designers to open pop-up store in Paris
Ten Korean designers will open a pop-up store at a renowned concept store in Paris next month, a local design foundation said Tuesday.The Seoul Design Foundation said the store, named "Seoul's 10Soul," will open at L'eclaireur in Paris on June 22 and run for three weeks.The designers include those who participated in Seoul Fashion Week, including D. Gnak, Heich es Heich, Nohke and Moohong. "We created the opportunity for the designers' clothes to be actually sold to customers," said Jung Ku-ho w
May 24, 2016
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More men add bold, colorful accessories to wardrobes
BALTIMORE -- Ethan Giffin doesn’t let working in a business setting prevent him from showing off his sense of style. Giffin, CEO of the Little Italy-based Groove: Creative Marketing, Design & Development, is known for his extensive collection of accessories -- hundreds of patterned pocket squares, lapel flowers, designer cuff links, colorful socks and dress shoes. “Many of my friends’ wives and girlfriends say 'I wish you can dress more like Ethan',” Giffin, 44, said. “It’s definitely something
May 17, 2016
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Fashion meets gastronomy: dine and shop with style
In the age of social media -- when how food looks matters just as much as how it tastes -- luxury fashion stores that house coffee shops and restaurants have emerged as hot spots for fashion-conscious foodies. Instagram is flooded with pictures of food, including many taken in the sophisticated settings of in-house dessert cafes and restaurants at luxury fashion flagship stores in Seoul such as Dior and Hermes and some hip multi-brand stores like Boon the Shop and 10 Corso Como. The Cafe Dior
May 3, 2016
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Met fashion exhibit explores dialogue between hand, machine
NEW YORK (AP) -- For decades, argues Andrew Bolton, the star curator of blockbuster fashion exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, we’ve all been looking at fashion through a flawed prism. We’ve assumed, he says, that hand-made garments are better, purer, fancier, more luxurious. And that machine-made garments are inherently inferior, even mediocre. We’re wrong, Bolton says, and his new Met exhibit opening this week, “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology,” seeks to prove that t
May 3, 2016
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Met curator Andrew Bolton, quiet defender of fashion as art
NEW YORK (AP) -- The opening seconds of the trailer for “The First Monday in May,” the new documentary about the dizzyingly star-studded Met Gala, show pop star Rihanna tossing her fashionable head in slo-mo as the red-carpet cameras click furiously. Suitably, she sports a glistening tiara. And then suddenly we're looking at a boyish, bespectacled man far from the limelight, far from Rihanna and Bieber and Beyonce, walking through the dimmed galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is And
April 28, 2016
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Jimmy Choo creative director Sandra Choi talks glamour and ? of course ? shoes
In some fashion universe, TV’s fashion cheerleader Carrie Bradshaw is probably talking to her husband, John James “Mr. Big” Preston, and gazing at all of her shoes. After all, the former Ms. Bradshaw, a lover of shoes, missed her ferry ride home during an old episode of HBO’s “Sex and the City” after slipping out of a designer shoe and crying out, “Wait, I lost my Choo!” The “Choo” she was referring to, of course, is the red carpet favorite Jimmy Choo, the London-based footwear and accessories l
April 28, 2016
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Hadid's oyster-shaped ferry terminal to open in Italy, weeks after death
ROME (AFP) - One of the final works of Zaha Hadid, the acclaimed Iraqi-British architect who died suddenly last month, was posthumously inaugurated in Italy on Monday. Inspired by an oyster, the new maritime terminal at the southern port of Salerno features a hard shell above a soft, fluid interior and the wavy lines that were Hadid’s signature. It is her first major project to come to completion since her death from a heart attack at the age of 65. A view of the port of Salerno, south of Italy,
April 25, 2016