Hyon Park: Technological things from running shoes
IN THE WEEKLY RUBRIC "NEW MARK" Wonderzine presents young designers and tells where and how you can buy their things. Our hero this week is Hyun Park, a young British designer of Korean origin, who creates things of architectural cut using laser cutting and a ton of sneakers.
The young 25-year-old British designer Hyun Park just this year graduated from the famous fashion college Central Saint Martins, where he studied with the legendary teacher Louise Wilson. The park is one of her last students: Wilson passed away on May 16th and the alumni show was dedicated to her. Before joining Saint Martins, Hyun Park worked as fashion illustrator at Style.com Korea and ELLE Girl Korea, calling himself "one of those cartoon geeks during school". That experience in these publications and sketches helped him enroll in one of the best design schools in the world. While at college, Park trained as an intern designer at Eudon Choi, and then at Proenza Schouler, where he gained experience in designing complex things and working with technologically advanced materials.
Hyun Park precisely feels the latest trends: it creates minimalistic things inspired by sports and activewear in pure bright colors. Hyun sneakers sneakers into parts, cuts off the soles, and makes collars or decorates clothes from welded parts and tongues. A whole box of sneakers for rework under the collection designer specifically sent the company Nike. The designer decorates wide trousers and voluminous coats of architectural cut with neon inserts and sporty details that refer to things for sports, asymmetrical dresses and jackets of exaggerated volumes decorate with neon details borrowed from sneakers. His collection borders on sportswear, clearly blurring the boundary between the gym and the street.
Hyun Park uses 3D printing and laser cutting, creating perforated tops and skirts from the welded words “What I talk about when I talk about running”, and also applies the perforations in the form of small drops and the words “Sweat”. The designer entrusted the production of all technological things to the Italian textile factory Bond Factory, but personally supervised each stage. In the same place, Hyun decorated things with curly machine stitching in contrasting colors, for example, lemon, and also made sports stripes with the inscription "Original", and applied Nike logo to knitted gloves. Technological fabrics Park combines with traditional Scottish tweed, starting from a combination of Chanel tweed jacket and Nike sneakers. In addition to clothing, Hyun Park creates socks, which he calls soxy heels. The designer says that the hardest thing is to find a balance between reality and concept, but it seems that he succeeds.
Poloman's graduation collection, created in collaboration with Nike, is inspired by running, namely the heart of sportswear - New York Central Park, where I often visited during my internship at Proenza Schouler. Here people run, people work. My things represent modern life, in which sport and everyday affairs are closely intertwined. The basis of the collection was the idea that running is an update that I broadcast literally. So, the show opened the runner to the song Glass Candy "Warm in the Winter". I dedicate this project to runners and modern women who make cities more energetic and lively. Sports dress code - my favorite!
Where to buy things Hyon Park
The designer only showed his first graduation collection, which is now on Instagram with the signature "On sale maybe". I must say, here Hyun Park is too modest. We have no doubt that soon his things will appear on the shelves of the main stores, and the designer himself will replenish the names of the new main British brands along with Christopher Kane and Jonathan Anderson. You can contact the designer on Facebook or write to [email protected].