Autumn Lookbook. 가을 룩북.

The maple trees in my backyard are changing their garments again

Brighter this time; they use plenty of warmer hues such as roseate and yellow

Warm hues for the cold days they say.

Little knows that the maple trees in my backyard are a bunch of liars

Everyone knows that even the reddest bikini can't keep you warm in October

They change the garments for another reason

The garments are actually funeral dresses

They aren't black since it's their own funeral

The skirts aren't long since it's their own funeral.

My poor maple trees in the backyard are dying

From the cold whispers of the October breeze

They decided to wear the best dress in their closet to face death

When the death pays a visit, of course the fancy dress won't ease the pain

But let the dress drops from the body they say

Because at least they'll be drop dead gorgeous in the cold deathbed.

All photos were taken by Saeed Owairan in my university (Sungkyunkwan University Natural Science Campus) and were edited by myself.

Seoul Fashion Week in Blurred Version. 중간고사 속의 서울패션위크.

It has been quite a while peeps! I'm finally done with my midterm exam last Friday and treated myself with a quality whole-day rest on Saturday. So now eye bags are gone and I'm ready to slay! LOL. Oh actually two days before my exams started, I did a quite crazy thing by sacrificing my study hours to go to the Seoul Fashion Week held in Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP). I went there through a surprising invitation from a Korean fashion designer, Suzanne Susceptible. Since I was preparing for the exams at that time, everything was done last minute. The show was on Sunday 11 am, and I decided the outfit on 2 am, get it ironed an hour later. Luckily I managed to grab the DSLR before sprinting out from the house that morning, however due to my unforgivable noobness (if that's even a word) in handling gadgets, I forgot to change it from the full manual mode into automatic so the photos taken were out of focus. Blurred. All of them. So only for this post, I hope that you can treat blurred images as a form of arts.

안녕하세요 완전 오랜만입니당! 저는 지난 금요일에 중간고사를 마쳤고 어제 푹~~~ 쉬었어요. 사실 저는 시험기간때 죄를 했어요. 남들이 다 열심히 공부하고 있었는데 저는 중간고사를 앞두고 동디플에 하는 서울패션위크에 가버렸어요 ㅎㅎㅎ. 저는 차수정 디자이너님의 초대로 갔어요. 그때는 시험 준비하느라 너무 정신 없어서 쇼는 오전 11시인데 옷은 새벽 2시에 결정했어요. 너무 급했는데 다행히 카메라를 챙겨 갔어요. 그.런.데 저는 테크놀로지에 대해 진짜 무식해서 사진들 다 초점이 맞지 않게 나왔어요 ㅠㅠ. 그래서 오늘만 저를 봐주시고 이런 사진들을 예술이라고 생각해주세요.

The free gifts. 선물!

These are taken with my phone so they're quite clear. Phew luckily I have some good photos.

이건 핸드폰으로 찍어서 잘 나왔어요.

And introducing my partner in crime for that day, Jane Scarlet.

Summer's about bright hues. Fall's about darker hues. How about the transition between those two? 여름은 밝은 옷이고 가을은 좀 어두운 옷이면 그 사이엔 무슨 색조가 어울릴까요?

I have a severe identical confusion. I love art and literature but I chose to study science, I love literature but I'm a lazy reader. So in order to make things easier, I'm always tend to do/mix two or more contrary things in the same time. And perhaps because of that confusion syndrome(?), I have a weird liking towards the transition period between seasons. In fact, it's happening now in South Korea! It's changing from summer to fall. Nights are cold, but days are quite hot. Raining is a common thing during this special phase. I'm an extreme Pluviophile, so the rain spices up my love for this transition phase a lot more. The roller coaster of temperature during this transition period often gives my fragile body (I get sick easily) hard times, but I still love it. Speaking about the clothes to be donned during this unique period, I love to mix really bright hues with really dark hues for the outfits (people call it color blocking which combines contrast colors altogether in one outfit). Color blocking is definitely the right answer for this period since summer's about brighter clothes while fall's about darker clothes, so by mixing those two type of contrary hues, we'll get the right outfit for this "confused" season.

저는 원래 헷갈림이 많은 사람입니다. 저는 예술과 문학을 엄청 좋아하는데 과학쪽으로 공부하기로 했고 저는 문학을 좋아하는데 책 읽는 게 별로예요. 그래서 모든 것들이 덜 헷갈리게 하도록 저는 보통 완전 다른 것들을 같이 하곤 해요. 이 문제때문에 저는 취향도 아주 특이해요. 예를 들면 무슨 계절이 좋아하냐고 물어보면 보통 남들은 가을이나 여름이라고 말하는데 저는 계절이 바뀌고 있는 시기(?)를 아주 좋아합니다. 겁나 이상하죠? 사실 한국에서 지금은 바로 그 시기예요. 밤에는 아주 쌀쌀하고 낮에는 제법 따뜻한 편이에요. 계절이 바뀌면 비가 많이 와서 더 좋아요. 왜냐하면 저는 비가 오는 날이 엄청 좋아해서요. 그리고 저는 이때 보통 옷을 좀 특이하게 입어요. 약간 여름과 가을이 섞인 느낌? ㅎㅎㅎ 색조도 이렇게 밝은 것이랑 어두운 거 많이 섞여 입어요.