Korea to set up showroom during New York Fashion Week

SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean government is to set up a showroom in
the United States during the upcoming New York Fashion Week, aiming to increase
global recognition of the country's emerging designers and their fashion through
the influential event.
The showroom "Concept Korea: Fashion Collective 2010," displaying works by six
Korean designer teams will run for three days at the New York Public Library
starting Feb. 12, South Korea's culture ministry said.
The showroom is the first part of the event in the government-led project to
promote and introduce Korean designers overseas. The Council of Fashion Designers
of America is also sponsoring the project.
The six designer teams participating in the event are: Park Choon-moo (DEMOO),
Kim Suk-won and Yoo Won-jung (Andy & Debb), Lee Doii (Doii Paris), Chung Ku-ho
(KUHO), Jung Wook-juun (JUUN.J) and Hong Seung-wan (ROLIAT).
The semi-annual New York Fashion Week, is one of four major fashion weeks held in
New York City and the world's first organized fashion week first held in 1943.
German curator Wilfried Dickhoff, U.S. photographer Jack Pierson, and artists
Rosemarie Trockel and Curtis Anderson will be supporting the six Korean teams,
taking charge of the overall designing of the showroom and making photo catalogs.
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