https://www.saigonxseoul.com/blog daily 0.75 2019-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1535895229823-6RQJPK415Q7D8EVHAVAC/2018-08-15+19.09.42-1.jpg News https://www.saigonxseoul.com/blog/2019/3/29/clothing-social-empathy-and-the-power-of-stepping-into-someone-elses-shoes monthly 0.5 2019-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1553867155709-CWHIKM607QTU8E51RHHF/IMG_3656+2.jpg News - Clothing, Social Empathy, and the Power of Stepping Into Someone Else's Shoes Korean model April Song (Instagram @april_ssong2) models a modern Vietnamese ao dai dress from La Pham Design Studio (Instagram @laphamhanoi) at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza during Seoul fashion Week last March. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1554314914671-RN1MRV8MP7OJEEGX3A0F/IMG_2723.jpg News - Clothing, Social Empathy, and the Power of Stepping Into Someone Else's Shoes Here is an organic and unforeseen, and somewhat unintended convergence around this specific ao dai: the cramped space in a 1920 Seoul theme studio designed for cellphone and hobby photographers, the model Kang Jae Eun’s (Instagram @jjen_kang) mood that formed around the clothing and the space, and the photographic choices of the photographer, which all combine to form a final picture that seamlessly merges the modernity of 1920s, colonial Seoul (Gyeongseong) and the modernized ao dai style of La Pham Design Hanoi (Instagram @laphamhanoi). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1554311724811-007U2EG81WEKX5E8891G/IMG_3888.jpeg News - Clothing, Social Empathy, and the Power of Stepping Into Someone Else's Shoes Vietnamese fashion model and mega-influencer Salim (Instagram @salimhwg) styled herself with top Korean fashion brand Greedilous (Instagram @greedilous_official) in October 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1554312448379-PY4OBFNY1JMQSMWP1J6C/IMG_3896.jpg News - Clothing, Social Empathy, and the Power of Stepping Into Someone Else's Shoes Vietnamese fashion model and mega-influencer Salim (Instagram @salimhwg) in Korean brand Greedilous gear (Instagram @greedilous_official) in October 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1553866134826-RW073S0EMGHQTD41RL4W/IMG_3450.jpg News - Clothing, Social Empathy, and the Power of Stepping Into Someone Else's Shoes Korean model April Song (Instagram @april_ssong2) models a modern Vietnamese ao dai dress from La Pham Design Studio (Instagram @laphamhanoi) in front of the main gate of the Jogyesa Temple in central Seoul. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1553871062290-1TVJY1IWLZIPDOHU5U56/IMG_3623.jpeg News - Clothing, Social Empathy, and the Power of Stepping Into Someone Else's Shoes Vietnamese model Nhung Bui - Natalie Lie (Instagram @nhungbui_) wears a modern Korean hanbok from design brand Heo Sarang Hanbok (Instagram @heo_sarang) in a neighborhood playground in Hanoi in October, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1554314154733-O3X5Q11Q928CAS6WWN32/IMG_4035.JPG News - Clothing, Social Empathy, and the Power of Stepping Into Someone Else's Shoes Here, Natalie (Instagram @nhungbui_), a student and non-pro model who eagerly agreed to do a shoot was greatly intrigued by the idea of doing a shoot with a hanbok made by Heo Sarang Hanbok (Instagram @heo_sarang) a Korean brand of modern hanbok. The picture is especially interesting because of how it channels the model’s ideas of proper comportment and posing that is partially transmitted through the hanbok, how her own sensibilities as a Girl, and as a photographic subject who was trying to convey/capture her notion of Koreanness as she asked if it was ok to spin for the camera. https://www.saigonxseoul.com/blog/category/Announcements monthly 0.5 https://www.saigonxseoul.com/blog/tag/korea monthly 0.5 https://www.saigonxseoul.com/blog/tag/ao+dai monthly 0.5 https://www.saigonxseoul.com/blog/tag/vietnam monthly 0.5 https://www.saigonxseoul.com/blog/tag/hanbok monthly 0.5 https://www.saigonxseoul.com/about daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1535694452263-0UU0SWYIO62XLU1ZQ43Y/2018-08-12+11.12.40-1.jpg Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1535696839725-W6GRDLARXLUZ45ZFFUQ1/2018-08-14+18.03.36.jpg Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5310cef7e4b08602cbfa36bf/1410211320490-406ZQFQSXK2C1HEM4F70/Wythe01.jpg Mission https://www.saigonxseoul.com/work daily 0.75 2019-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1535527759351-VHWR5WT3YEB3GI9TD6C3/1_LxgrfWP5nOEEHlWHT6es5g+%281%29.jpeg Project African-American professional model Keena Wilson models a gaeryang hanbok ("modern hanbok") that is more western and matches her more western, modelesque features. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1535528247138-I9D1P1MBRTJDJ1XTAFX0/1_3aIPP1B3xtIQfmugg6tMzw+%281%29.jpeg Project Finally, Swedish professional model Miranda Alvenkrona  offers another take on a hanbok matched for her skin tone and environment, joined together by a strobe focused through a circlular "beauty dish" reflector in a traditional, 1980s-era coffee shop/cafe (dabang). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1535527128881-IVIK8R4OP45VHUEL0ZBK/1_B1Xlp-XBRR2k0FUx4FupbA.jpeg Project The highly colorful and non-traditionally Korean pattern made for a more aesthetically tight visual match with the more West African features of Parisian-of Senegalese-descent singer-model Fama Ndiaye. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1535527048346-KH7JFZ0U1GPC8GDPU6Y1/1_4MVDdzW52By-ZLsfKtNMZA.jpeg Project The standard iteration of Korean raced body and hanbok is well expressed in the Deoksu Palace with model Kang Ah-Hyeong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1535527171994-LUSDCOSF1WX8I4O2HA22/1_JZ26OBKYpr9Tl3LuQMQfZw.jpeg Project Extremely traditional hanbok meets professional Libyan model Sarah Shusan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1535898205172-G1FYBTDH79M4OH0FORBE/33344644650_fc454daa11_o.jpg Project Another Vietnamese celebrity poses in a glasses frames being hawked around the Dongdaemun Design Plaza at Seoul Fashion Week. She sported them better than anyone else that day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1535898427371-0RE5DK6AE716P5RWEAXB/32896441044_1636798b1c_o+%281%29.jpg Project This Vietnamese model won the Vietnamese version of The Face and is he's rocking a traditional Vietnamese woven-style dress. Traditional textiles and techniques extended past the ao dai, too. It's is fascinating to see this sartorial conversation being had at Seoul Fashion Week and to find out that Vietnamese fashion figures regularly make the rounds here. Even in Seoul, I was able to learn something about VIetnamese fashion culture. It is an interaction that is partially responsible for inspiring this project in the first place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1535898452168-MFC90BTBTX2IPIJDRGO4/33354282430_0f0c96c2b2_o+%281%29.jpg Project Here, it was fun to see the stockings over the pumps mixed into a look anchored by a dress highlighting tradition Vietnamese weaving techniques. A truly inspiring look, indeed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1541179342776-XO476VWA5TRH2MDQQXHB/IMG_4069+3.JPG Project Korean high fashion (and street fashion) designers are now strongly defining the national brand of Korea into a new national dresss. Here, the South Korean brand GREEDILOUS pops out starkly against the muted colors and richly textured backdrop of a Vietnamese wall in the Old Quarter of Hanoi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1541179815715-96KIIDSBKGFS37VJSQQG/image-asset.jpeg Project This is where Korean fashion hits the road in old Hanoi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1553762147616-ZT2ZRR4AOHGXYA5J7RKR/IMG_3661.jpg Project Our Korean model wears an ao dai from Le Lam Studio Hanoi in front of a traditional Korean door of a traditional structure in the Insadong area of Seoul. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1553761463751-3W2B855A9B4PV5FMNJ1W/IMG_3198_april_purple_aodai.jpg Project A Korean model stands in front of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in the heart of Seoul’s fashion district during Seoul Fashion Week in March, 2019. The model is wearing a modern take on the ao dai from La Pham Design Studio from Hanoi. The digital façade of the APM building changes colors and cycles through all the colors of the rainbow but here syncs perfectly with the ruddy violet of the ao dai. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1541143023821-HK8S80HFLC0NCC20K659/10794944576_IMG_1012.JPG Project While placing a hanbok in front of the very symbol of the Vietnamese nation may be a bit too on-the-nose, this is just the beginning of our semio-sartorial experiment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1534936783797-M5L307PI2WR538SSCM19/34157801036_693058a17c_o.jpg Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1535526626172-KV0VUOZIZS51OR3MGE8H/1_pMdQA_UD92T9o9yl-w97jA.jpeg Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1535896322026-49V1AQDHNM749V8LVTTG/Screen+Shot+2018-09-02+at+10.50.06+PM.png Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1535897865079-OKCK7FLQOR9CDMQOBFS1/2018-08-10+20.45.36-1.jpg Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1541140642548-VT4IU4SJ7VAAHXWBKE4L/1_tLf7FDo-0t35iX5FyMUJyA%402x.jpeg Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1541142439860-TAB446GO95H0ON18E0P9/IMG_4014.JPG Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1553760027013-K7LC2VVDCVY0MUFPBE45/IMG_3661.jpg Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1553760362439-WTRHXTX4D3GBFRLSYZWE/IMG_3661.jpg Project https://www.saigonxseoul.com/4s-cover daily 1.0 2018-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a09a1fcf7fdd41ae9060d/1553828601932-S089HHFXRAM8QD272NKG/IMG_3761._hyeonjin_gyeongbok.JPG Saigon-Seoul Street Studio Project https://www.saigonxseoul.com/new-page daily 0.75 2018-08-20 https://www.saigonxseoul.com/read-me daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5310cef7e4b08602cbfa36bf/1412689652885-P9TPK298WCTZU748L0SG/Lifestyle03.jpg Read Me