U.S. fashion future belongs to the Koreans?

The future belongs to the U.S. fashion industry Koreans do? Look at it the following factors: the cradle of New York-based fashion Gen Art for their recent new conference, Gen Art Fresh Faces fashion chose eight designers, of which four are Korean or Korean American. Last year, the world-famous Parsons School of Design (Parsons The New School for Design), nearly half of the art fashion design degree students are Asians or Asian Americans (29% of students come from Korea). From autumn 2003 to autumn 2006, from American pop Institute of Technology (Fashion Institute of Technology), or fine arts graduate of South Korea Korean-American students rose from 57 to 152 people.

Parsons School of Design, the former president Tim “Gunn (Tim Gunn), said:” The number of Korean students from the early 1980s began to have increased. “Gunn is a fashion brand Liz Claiborne (Liz Claiborne Inc) of Chief Creative Officer, and the Bravo TV “Tim” Gunn fashion Guide “(Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style) of the presenters.
In the 1980s, thanks to strong economic growth, South Korea began to appear middle class, and created a demand for higher education and high-fashion needs. “With the rise of the middle class, more people came to the West, and had the opportunity to learn more about Western culture,” Korean New York fashion consultant Susan Shin explained, “it led to more interest for fashion and to develop people’s creative spirit. ”
Korean fashion brand Y & Kei inspired by the teachings of Buddhism, its designer Gene Kang and Hanii Yoon said South Korea’s version of “Elle” and “Vogue” in 1992 and were founded in 1996, which marked the development of South Korea’s fashion needs a turning point. Trained for these magazines fashion interest in learning, especially for those children of the emerging middle class. Kang and Yoon say, these middle-class people “for their children’s future,” willing to send them to study abroad.
South Korea face of increasing student enrollment application, the Parsons School of Design in New York established the Samsung Art Design Institute (Samsung Art and Design Institute), the College is sponsored by electronics giant Samsung is set up. In 2003, Samsung will Derercuny brand market. Derercuny is a very mature ladies brand, the conference site in Milan, a Korean designer Mina Lee.
“We had students say, ‘If you want to go to Parsons, you must come here,” Gunn said, adding that although the applicant’s artistic ability very well, their English was not up to par. “This course will help them enter a higher level of preparation to do.”

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