Do The Future of the U.S. Fashion Industry Belongs to Koreans?
Do the future of the U.S. Fashion industry belongs to Koreans? Look at the factors below: Gen Art, whose capital is based in New York and is the cradle of fashion, chose eight designers for their recent new conference, Gen Art Fresh Faces fashion , among four people are Korean or Korean American. Last year, the world-famous design school, Parsons The New School for Design, made an investigation and said almost half of the students majoring in art fashion design are Asians or Asian-Americans (29% of the students come from Korea). From the year 2003 to the year 2006, the number of the South Korean or South Korea Korean-American arts graduate from the American pop Institute of Technology (Fashion Institute of Technology) rose from 57 to 152.
The former president of Parsons School of Design, Tim Gunn, said:” The number of Korean students began to increase from the early 1980s . “Gunn is the chief creative officer of the fashion brand Liz Claiborne (Liz Claiborne Inc) and the host of Bravo TV “Tim” Gunn Fashion Guide “(Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style).In the 1980s, thanks to rapid economic growth, the middle class began to appear in South Korea and created a demand for higher education and high-fashion. “With the rise of the middle class, more people came to the west and had the opportunity to learn more about western culture,” the Korean-American fashion consultant Susan Shin in New York explained, “it gives rise to more interest for fashion and develops people’s creative spirit. “Faced of increasing enrollment applications form South Korean students, the Parsons School of Design in New York established the Samsung Art Design Institute (Samsung Art and Design Institute), which is sponsored by electronics giant Samsung. Samsung put Derercuny into market in 2003, which is a mature brand for ladies.