Posts Tagged ‘Fashion’

Today marks the opening of the Prada Transformer Project.  The project, bringing fashion and architecture together, begins with the “Waist Down – Skirts by Miuccia Prada”. A collaboration with Rem Koolhaas, the project will transform and feature new exhibits over the summer.  To read more about the project and tonight’s cocktail party, and for more [...]


City by City, a travel show for the hip, stylish, and affluent traveler, is coming to Seoul this winter.  Sponsored by Carl. F Bucherer, Swiss luxury watch maker, City by City is in its second season, and is focusing entirely on Asian cities this time.  Seoul is in the line up and seoulplay has been [...]


Seoul Fashion Week opens Saturday with men’s wear on October 18 and 19, followed by women’s wear from October 21 to 25. This year’s Fashion Week also includes a day dedicated to Asian designers. 
There will also be a forum featuring international fashion insiders Diane Pernet, our dear friend Nicole Fall at Bespoke Tokyo, and Felix [...]


 

Cartier in Cheongdam-dong (Photo Courtesy)

 
 
The 160-year-old luxurious French jewelry brand, Cartier opens its first Asian maison in Cheongdam-dong in Seoul today, September 17th. The store has 5 stories and is the largest boutique in Korea that both exhibits and sells the Cartier jewelry collection as well as houses a Cartier customer service center. This new boutique will offer [...]


If you’ve been shopping in Seoul, then you understand why some people might think that all the shopping centers were developed or owned by the same people. Until now the majority of new shopping centers in Seoul have looked the same as each other, take HiHarriet in Myoungdong, iPark Mall in Yongsan, and [...]


Seoulplay is pleased to launch a new feature to our blog. Fashion Corner will be featuring Numero Korea’s top editor Choong Hwan Oh to give our readers the inside scoop into Korean fashion and shopping trends.
Choong Hwan has worked as one of the top fashion editors in Korea since 2005, beginning at Esquire before [...]


Zara, which was launched in Korea with Lotte as the local investment partner, is outperforming Gap and Banana Republic on monthly sales revenues in Korea. Zara which opened only in April of 2008 is already reporting revenues in excess of 3.5 million dollars per month from its two stores in Myeongdong and in COEX [...]


JinAir successfully completed its first flight this past Thursday taking off from Gimpo International Airport at 10am. JinAir President Kim Jae-kun participated in an inaugration celebration held in the morning and was there to greet the first passengers of the airline. JinAir continued to promote the young and fresh image of the airline by [...]


seoulplay’s Winter Raymond will be featured in the upcoming September 2008 issue of Elle Magazine USA. Elle caught up with Winter on one of her recent trips to New York and sat down to talk with her about her life as a young professional, yet stylish woman who runs seoulplay and is a regular [...]