Wooyoungmi Spring 2010

With a col­lec­tion titled “The Painter”, it is dif­fi­cult not to com­pare the lat­est from Wooy­oungmi with Alexan­der McQueen’s col­lec­tion of sim­i­lar con­cept. Whereas McQueen rested on his quirks, incor­po­rat­ing a painter’s sloppy work into his gar­ments, Wooy­oungmi took a more thought­ful approach. Inter­rupt­ing her usual clean straight lines, Wooy­oungmi saw to a par­tial dis­sec­tion that imi­tates the ten­sion between tra­di­tion and func­tional use from the stand­point of a painter. When sleeves are not left exposed at mid-​​length, they are abruptly halved for a disheveled cropped look. Trousers face the same treat­ment along with a makeshift apron layer. The result is a dar­ing col­lec­tion that dif­fer­en­ti­ates itself by reject­ing the real world notion of prac­ti­cal­ity for its own version.

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