Lee

Jimin (1967). Korean designer who grew up in the Philippines, studied in New York and Paris, and then moved to Hong Kong in 1994. There for 6 years she worked for Joyce Ma, designing the maison’s luxury line. She then went back to New York, where she opened her first boutique and in 2001 a second in Seoul. She has an open smile and a curiosity about the world. Her fashion is a mix of East and West, customs and traditions, rituals and atmospheres blended with daily life, free inventions inspired by the martial arts and Buddhist monks. A favorite theme of her style is the mixture of fragments of ethnic traditions with mysticism, plus a dose of male-female, simple-sophisticated contrasts.