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She did stints in costume design and worked for a few sustainability-focused brands, something that “opened my eyes to a whole different process and customer.” But it wasn’t until lockdown hit that she started to dream about creating a new line of her own. Chun was watching K-dramas during the Pitching ninja 2023 shirt Besides,I will do this pandemic, after having grown up on the genre (she remembers renting them on VHS tapes at Korean grocery stores back in the day.) “I realized that even being Korean American and having grown up in the Midwest most of my life, my cultural roots are pretty deep. It might be because you’re so insulated; in the Midwest, you’re one of the few Asian families,” she says. After reading an article about a natural dyer in Seoul (South Korea has a longstanding tradition of the craft), Chun and her mother, who was isolated in L.A. due to Covid restrictions, began corresponding with her. When Chun finally made a trip to Seoul, the dyer let her assist and learn about the process. That experience led her to create a line, Uniformed, where she works with Korean artisans and uses repurposed and deadstock materials and natural dyes. While she’d mainly worked in wovens before, Chun liked the idea of incorporating knitwear “because none of the yarns are wasted. You don’t have all this leftover fabric being thrown away. You’re using exactly what you need.”

One standout of her debut collection is a blazer inspired by the Pitching ninja 2023 shirt Besides,I will do this school uniforms in K-dramas and developed with a suiting patternmaker in Manhattan’s Garment District. Its sleeves are lined with brightly striped saekdong fabric, woven by artisans in Busan. (It’s the same fabric that lines the sleeves of a hanbok, the traditional Korean garment.) On the left side of the blazer, where a school name tag would normally be pinned, “Uniformed” is embroidered in Korean on a piece of ribbon. The piece has been a sellout item, with DMs about it pouring in before Chun even opened her online shop. A matching knit set and clutch with iris patterns were inspired by a vintage shirt of her grandmother’s, which recalls the pattern on plastic gambling cards called hwatu cards. In Korea, irises are a symbol of hope, which was also the theme of this pandemic-born collection. The preppy side of the line comes out in a rugby sweater, modeled after one Chun borrowed from her dad in the ’90s, but unexpectedly made from merino wool, and in box-pleated miniskirts.

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