Advocating for natural, gentle skincare, Glow Recipe aims to make this once Korean niche as accessible as possible. Founded by two skincare gurus Sarah Lee and Christine Chang (who share over 20 years of experience in the industry) they are bringing the SoKo glow right to your bathroom.

The skincare range contains natural ingredients such as banana, avocado, blueberry, papaya, plum, pineapple and watermelon to nourish the skin. And, if you look at the small print too (and get all sciency) you’ll find more skin-loving substances such as hyaluronic acid (which helps retain water in your skin) alpha hydroxyl acids (great for anti-aging), and retinol (which helps stimulate collagen) and that’s just the start of the list. There’s a reason that once you start using these products, you’re not going to want to change your skincare ever again.

Here are some products to add to your cart ASAP:

Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Dew Drops

Inspired by Korean makeup artists, this is the first non-cosmetic highlighter that uses skin-friendly ingredients to give you that enviable glow. Proving you don’t need makeup to achieve glassy skin, this product will instantly highlight skin while the vitamin-rich formula will hydrate at the same time.

£ 31

Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Dew Drops

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Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Sleeping Mask

A bouncy lightweight gel to wear when you sleep, this pillow-proof formula floods your thirsty cells while soothing irritated and inflamed skin. Simply use two scoops, pat them on and gently and wash it all off the next morning. Waking up never looked so good.

£ 20.50

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Glow Recipe Pineapple-C Bright Serum

Joining the ranks of Glow Recipe fruity formulas, this Pineapple C Bright Serum is potent yet gentle, packing a power glow. Containing 22% pineapple juice (one of the most powerful forms of vitamin C) this serum will help fight off acne scar, dark spots, and hyperpigmentation.

£ 46

Glow Recipe Pineapple-C Bright Serum

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Glow Recipe Blueberry Bounce Gentle Cleanser

This lathering cleaner will thoroughly clean and hydrate your face with its antioxidant-rich blueberry formula. Great for erasing makeup and impurities, use morning and night to see the full effect. You’ll be well on your way for a Seoul-worthy glow.

£ 10

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Words By Rosina Findlay

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Seoul Fashion Week packed a colourful punch as it rounded off this month’s string of seasonal shows. With shows taking place under strict quarantine safety measures, the events of the week were devoid of audiences and instead live streamed via the show’s website and YouTube channel.

One of the most exciting changes to take place with this year’s Fall/Winter shows in Seoul was the change of scenery – and no, we’re not talking about the digital takeover. With the pandemic enforcing the closure of many major tourist attractions, designers were encouraged to stage their shows in these empty spaces for the first time in Fashion Week history. Models were seen strutting through the likes of the National Museum of Korea and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, as well as the Han Riverside Park and the Oil Tank Culture Park.

With an array of talented designers taking to the virtual runway for another week, it seems that fashion has found a new rhythm befitting the post-pandemic age. Seoul Fashion Week was another treat for the fashion-hungry, and ultimately did not disappoint. Read on to see some of the designers and brands that caught our eye this season.

Oct31

Headed by designer Sunil Kim, Oct31 seeks to express the classic value of traditional fashion in womenswear; the result is a FW21 Collection that incorporates the strong silhouettes of tailored suits into a feminine rhetoric. Supported by a limited colour palette of black, white, beige, grey, and russet, the Oct31 collection is based around classic outerwear. Blazers, vests, leather jackets, and ballooned trench coats are dramatically styled with long, textured skirts and wide leg trousers. The addition of leather gloves to each outfit only adds to the classic look and narrative; we can imagine the women wearing these clothes out on a long drive in a vintage motor vehicle. Stand outs from the collection include a sleeveless blazer styled with a long wrap skirt and elbow-length gloves; a russet suit; and an oversized pinstripe blazer belted over a feathery-textured skirt.

KWAK HYUN JOO COLLECTION

The KWAK HYUN JOO COLLECTION marries an individual’s unique sense of self with the visual language of career fashion, emphasising modes of self-expression through references to streetwear. Draped and oversized fabrics are used to create relaxed silhouettes, transforming traditional pieces like suits into a more casual look. However, it’s the mixing of prints that arguably steals the show; bold patterns like check and tie dye are juxtaposed with graphic imagery and textures, creating a visual palette that just falls shy of being too much. These patterns take on bold colours, opening up the colour scheme of the collection with brighter tones that we don’t usually see in colder months. These vibrant tones bring a liveliness to the season that captures the youthful vision of the brand.

HOLY NUMBER 7

HOLY NUMBER 7 create “romantic streetwear” that highlights the designers’ Christian faith. Each season, the brand aims to use their collection to tell a positive story based on the Bible. For FW21, HOLY NUMBER 7 quoted Genesis 9:7: “As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiple on the earth and increase upon it.” With an emphasis on this theme of abundance, the brand decided to use their collection to raise awareness of textile waste and environmental pollution. In doing so, the collection integrates sustainable practices such as the use of deadstock fabric. HOLY NUMBER 7 demonstrate that sustainability can still be stylish with a bold colour palette, mixed patterns, and layered silhouettes. Carrying a vintage vibe that still manages to look relevant and contemporary, the collection playfully mixes texture, colour, and pattern to create edgy streetwear. HOLY NUMBER 7 aren’t subtle in their layering technique either, packing together undersuits, skirts, shirts, waistcoats, corsets, and blazers (often in one look). This tactic offers a rich visual landscape that begs the audience to take a closer look at the interwoven details of each outfit.

GREEDILOUS

Unique print and pattern design lie at the heart of the GREEDILOUS brand. Multiple prints and colours run through GREEDILOUS’s FW21 Collection, providing cohesion through their arresting treatment of colour and exciting play on optical illusion. The chessboard motif is a common theme throughout the collection, manifesting both in check patterns and chess pieces. The maximalist approach of designer Park Youn Hee is a dynamic contrast with other designers’ preference for structured minimalism; you won’t find simplicity here, but you will find fun. Notable looks in the collection include a patterned blazer and pleated skirt in pink, red, choral, and turquoise; a red, black, and blue chessboard bomber jacket layered over a matching skirt and sheer star-patterned top; and a black leather jacket and skirt combo featuring heavy floral embroidery on the sleeves and hem.

BIG PARK

Park Youn Soo’s brand BIG PARK is all about using signature items to construct an urban wardrobe. Their FW21 Collection is dominated by a mix of pastels, primary colours, and neutrals, which are complemented by loose and flowy silhouettes. The outfits on show also incorporate fragments of artistic prints and images, like Sandro Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, which elevates the femininity of the collection as a whole. These visual references to female beauty are highlighted by long tulle skirts, ribbons, and dramatic peasant collars. However, these arguably more delicate details sit alongside heavy leather coats, boxy hoodies, and wide padded shoulders, injecting an understated edge that helps situate them in the urban visual landscape.

ENSUE

Launched in 2019, ENSUE is one of the newer brands to take to the digital runways of Fashion Week. Designer Ensue Hwang punctuates her brand with a contemporary romanticism that “combines the innocent beauty of a girl with the sophistication of a lady”, emphasising delicate femininity through luxurious materials and refined silhouettes. ENSUE’s FW21 Collection follows this narrative with its heavy use of lace detailing and ribbon, which simultaneously decorates long gowns and pleated miniskirts. Sticking to a strict colour palette of black and white, the looks on show have a clean and sharp appearance that complements the tailoring of some of the collection’s more structured pieces – in particular, its peplum corset tops, long coats, and suits. ENSUE create a collection that celebrates feminine elegance and the transitional overlap of youth and womanhood. One of the standout looks from the collection was a long white pleated dress with a ribbed crochet undershirt, styled with a black blazer and suit trousers.

DOUCAN

DOUCAN uses graphic artwork to “reinterpret the oriental fantasy of nature, light, and age”, with designer Chung Hoon Choi introducing new prints each season to create a distinctive collection. DOUCAN was one of the shows to watch this Fashion Week season – and rightly so, if the visual impact of the collection is anything to go by. Swirling patterns are a focal point of each outfit, taking the form of prints, beadings, and textured ruching. A detail of DOUCAN’s pattern manipulation that makes them stand out is how they use it to create form and structure; by aligning swathes of fabric symmetrically across the torso and sleeves of a dress, the brand gives an illusion of depth that also highlights the model’s natural curves. Pattern is often combined with blocks of solid colour on the shoulders, lapels, and belts, providing an interesting alternative to the cut-out trend. An outfit to look out for is the black floor length sheer gown covered in rows of floral print in primary colours.

Words By Charlie Colville

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In light of his dazzling Golden Globes awards speech, where he tells the world, ‘once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films’, Bong Joon-ho seems to be making his mark in modern Hollywood cinema, guided by his genre-bending tragicomedy Parasite (2019) and its flavourful layers of family drama, social class tension, and romance.

Born in Daegu, South Korea, Bong was surrounded by a familial community of artists, with his father being a graphic designer, his grandfather an author, his brother an English literature professor and his sister a fashion designer. It was not surprising, therefore, that Bong himself soon developed a fascination for the artistic creativity offered by the world of cinema and its multi-layered combination of screenwriting, producing and directing. After enrolling in the Korean Academy of Film Arts and spending the next seven years making short 16mm films, now and then contributing to works by other notable directors such as Park Ki-yong’s Motel Cactus, Bong finally released his debut directorial work, Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000), a satirical dark comedy about an out-of-work college professor who resorts to kidnapping barking dogs due to the excess of noise in his apartment building. The film received mainly favourable reviews, but was still deeply entrenched in anonymity, passed on solely through the lips of cult film-oriented critics and screened predominantly in marginalised venues.

His second film, which functioned as a vessel into Bong’s mainstream popularity within the Korean film industry, is titled Memories of Murder (2003) and examines the true story of Korea’s first serial murders in history taken place between 1986 and 1991. In keeping with his interest in tales of mystery, murder and psychological intrigue, the film received an abundance of critical praise in view of Bong’s realistic treatment of the all- too human desperation of his key characters. Its evident genre-mixing also foreshadows the melting pot of timely social themes, black humour and emotional drama that later manifests itself in his well-known feature films such as The Host (2006), Snowpiercer (2013) and Okja (2017).

Being the first Korean film to win the Golden Globe award for best foreign-language film, Parasite has achieved, in an extraordinarily short span of time, unprecedented heights in the field of foreign filmic representation, bringing to light the lack of recognition prevalent within Asian cinema, both in terms of critical reception and distribution opportunities. To quote Bong himself, ‘I think we only use one language: the cinema’, the revolutionary success of Parasite seems to remind us as audiences that the act of storytelling constitutes of more than just divorced, unanimated prints of dialogue and instead indicates the global unity inherent within the nature of cinematic language.

Bong, along with Adam McKay, is set to be the executive producer to the upcoming American TV series adaptation of Parasite for HBO.

Words by Shir Ariya

Graphics by Katie Janes

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