Hanbok Workshop: Tradition for Contemporary Fashion Design—How to Make Baeja

Robert Lagary Board Room Marvin Feldman Center, Ninth Floor, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City , NY, United States

Baeja (vest), mid-20th century, synthetic textile, National Folk Museum of Korea, Seoul. The Korea Craft and Design Foundation holds a special lecture/workshop series related to Hanbok (traditional Korean clothing) in […]

Globalization of Korean Hallyu and Cool Japan: Past, Present, and Future

Conference Center, Seminar Room 9 227 West 27th Street, New York, NY, United States

Please join Vincent Quan, associate professor and assistant chair of Fashion Business Management, and Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura, professor of Social Sciences–Sociology, for this discussion on the reach of Korean and Japanese culture. Asian fashion and pop culture have been sweeping the world for over 50 years. In the 1970s, Japanese designers arrived in Paris and […]

Silk Embroidery Workshop

Robert Lagary Board Room Marvin Feldman Center, Ninth Floor, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City , NY, United States

Embroidery master Erin Byunn will guide you in creating a traditional silk embroidery. The purpose of this workshop is understanding and developing Korean embroidery by decorating a fortune pouch and a decorative panel with patterns. This event is for the FIT community only.