After tests like midterm exam, interviewing or important presentation for my career, i'm usually depressed, whatever the results. But that moments of depressing are passed by, i feel i could step up to next level. It makes me more mature.
Eating food is one of my favorite things. Especially, sweets make me happy when i'm down. When i'm blue, these help me feel better and when i feel good, these make me much happier! (Actually, chocolates have effects making people feel happy)
Summer almost comes here! I like winter rather than summer, but it's really true that i'm looking forward to beautiful beach and crowded with young people. Sometimes hot weather irritates me, fully energetic feeling is only in summer. Even when exercising, it refreshes me by more sweating. I like the energetic summer.
Once, i was in trouble traveling in europe. I missed the flight and didn't know where we could stay. At subway station, even at almost midnight, i was really confused. There were many homeless people. It was really scary for me. After that time, when i stand at the platform, it sometimes reminds me about that night.
I like traveling in nature. It would be better with friends. Relaxing in green grass, trees and fresh air makes feel free. When weather is nice, i go to picnic at the park and have a rest under the tree. Kids are at playground and some people are taking a walk with dogs. It is really peaceful moment.
In last March, Seoul Fashion Week(SFW) was
held at DDP(Dongdaemun Design Plaza). DDP was built for gallery, exhibition,
performance, and fair. It’s all about fashion and design. We could expect the positive
effects of this project like development of fashion industry. More than a
million guests visited the fair and 17 fashion designers participated in. It
shows us a lot of people in Korea have more and more interests in fashion and
they want to enjoy the fashion regardless of gender. Young people are following
trend and we can see the newest fashion trend easily on streets. So, there are
many clothing shops opened and some tourists choose Korea which they want to
visit for shopping.
(SFW opening ceremony)
(Dongdaemun Design Plaza)
As same as other countries, popular fashion
brands in Korea are clothing retailers like Zara, Forever21, and H&M. These
are the ‘Fast Fashion’. It refers to clothing and accessories that are designed
and produced quickly to reflect current trends. The word is originated from ‘Fast
food’ that has common feature of speedy. Fast Fashion’s purpose is designing
and manufacturing stuffs as fast as possible with cheap price. As they produce
clothes in a short period with mass production method, it can be possible to
maintain cheaper price. These are also called SPA brand, Specialty store
retailer of Private label Apparel Brand.
(Mass production)
In 1980’s, an American brand ‘GAP’ was the
first to define SPA and adopt a new system of these days. After that, Fast
fashion has been growing at a rapid pace. It’s from various country,
Japan(UNIQLO), Turkey(Mango), and so on. There are also lots of Korean SPA
brand shops like MIXXO, 8seconds, and SPAO.
Because of a low price, most people like to
buy some clothes of these brands. Recently, for retailers collaborate with
other designers or luxury brands, consumers can purchase good quality things
with cheap price. Also, fast fashion is sensitive with current fashion, and people
can know and choose clothes following recent trend just walking around in a
store. We don’t have to try to browse a fashion magazine in order to capture
the trend. Retailers provide various collections of clothes even for children
and consumers have a variety of choices.
However, there exist some bad points of
Fast Fashion. Retailers provide clothes with cheaper materials and lower
quality. That makes consumers put them away from the closet in a short time. Some
designers have negative opinions that Fast Fashion doesn’t consider conceptual
originality and only focuses on producing a high volume of goods. The style of
dresses is being uniformity. People looks like wearing same pants, shirts, and
shoes.
The Fast Fashion has a possibility of
causing environmental problems. Every year, the clothing industry trashes 2
million tons of wastes, and 2.1 million tons of CO2. These statistical data
have risen dramatically in recent years. The cheap price of Fast Fashion’s
clothes makes customers to think easily about buying and throwing away easily. This
point causes overspend of clothes and it leads to environmental problems.
But I think that Fast Fashion has been
trying to solve these problems. As was stated above, there are collaborations
with famous fashion designers to cope with a lack of various styles and provide
good quality stuffs to customers. Also, some Fast Fashion brands have
eco-friendly policies to protect environment. I expect that Fast Fashion
industry is giving good effect more and more over time. The only thing I want
to say is that buying Fast Fashion clothes is better in many respects, but don’t
make light thing of throwing them away.
(You can get a information about which brands have eco-friendly lines.)
