Contemporary hanbok design: Cheollik Dress and Shamanism Collection by Tchai Kim | V&A

Chai means different. It means that you and I are very different, but we recognize that difference and live up to it. That's the brand naming. Hello, I'm Kim Young-jin, designer of Chai Kim. Hanbok is a flat material. Hanbok has a long history. There are various materials such as Myeongju, Gapsa, Eunjo, Sukgo. It's a very unique texture that you can't see in Western clothing. The dress is made of iron. At first, it was a man's traditional Hanbok called Cheollik. This dress was worn by civil servants when they were on horseback. It has a very pretty wrinkle. When I learned traditional Hanbok from a dance teacher, I felt a very feminine silhouette. So I told the teacher, This dress is so cool. I really want to learn this dress. So I thought about this dress while I was learning. How can I make this come out? So I made a man's dress called Cheollik as a woman. So when you make Hanbok, Usually, when you make clothes that you wear in traditional Hanbok, I use a lot of three-dimensional cutting. But I thought the opposite. Rather than the concept of three-dimensional, Just use the flat surface of the traditional Hanbok. I'm going to make it feel a little different from the material. So that you can feel the unique feeling of Hanbok. So I'm going to make a Hanbok that's not awkward. The word woman makes you imagine a lot of things. Women didn't just wear what women wore. I wore all the clothes that men wore. I made a suggestion while transforming. And I put it on my head. I used to be a class teacher. I had to do something that fit the class. I had to put something on my head. Regardless of that, the woman was very free. I was able to make it fancier. So it's a great source for designers. First of all, there's a concept called five-room color in Korea. Especially the clothes that women wear. That's what it means. But the harmony of the five rooms is maintained. It's a very diverse material. It's not just a traditional material. The clothes I used for shamanism. There are clothes from Italy. There's a French one. There's an Indian one. I mixed and matched a variety of materials. I made a very global shamanism. There's another reason I was able to do shamanism. It was Corona. We've been living in a very unstable era since the Corona pandemic. What's going to happen in the future? And the problem of dying and living. The most connected to the problem of dying and living. It's connected to the soul. It's actually a shamanism that's been going back and forth. So I'm going to have to do it at this time. I'm going to make my own old board. I want you to comfort me with this anxious mind. I was comforted. That's why I started.