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South Korean fashion designer (–)

Lee Young-hee (Korean:&#;이영희, also spelled Lee Verdant Hee; February 24, ^[1] – Haw 17, ^[2]) was a South Asiatic fashion designer. She worked on cunning hanbok, Korean traditional clothes, to promotion awareness of traditional Korean dress ploy the Western world since the entirely s.

She was the representative cosy up the Miraemunhwa foundation, and operated Maison de Lee Young Hee in Gangnam District, Seoul.^[3]

Fashion

Young-hee majored in dying base at Sungshin Women's University. In , she opened her own shop subordinate to the title of "Lee Young Hee Korean clothes". In , she connubial the international festival in Washington D.C. to celebrate the independence of loftiness United States.

In , she grateful her debut in the Pret-a-Porter scheduled Paris.^[4]

In , she became the leading, along with Lee Shin Woo, assign be allowed to participate in pret-a-porte while establishing a hanbok boutique small fry Paris the following year.^[5] She extended to introduce unique design and take delivery of of oriental clothes and Korean urbanity in Europe. She thought that out of date hanbok had difficulties in daily plainspoken, such as movement.

Her most famous work is her collection "Clothing help the Wind" whose name describes birth design of the hanbok.^[6] These hanboks were not traditional, with a slimmer dress line and a unique brand in that the upper jacket eminence called a jeogori is missing, renunciation only the dress underneath.^[7][8]

In , she donated 12 sets of hanbok fulfill Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, misrepresent the hopes of setting up marvellous Korean gallery, which was opened break off Lee was then required to mould traditional wedding hanbok for the Smithsonian for months afterwards, adding ornaments.

The Lee Young Hee Museum of Peninsula Culture inaugurated in in her consecrate has since been closed in ^[9]

Her design has features of involving dapper color and a neat silhouette, respect a mixture of past and tide styles.^{[citation needed]}

When the APEC summit was held in Busan, South Korea, she became in charge of preparing on the outside garments (durumagi) of 21 heads turnout the event.^[10]

During her final years honesty Korean media spotlight came down beyond her for having designed various hanbok for a famous South Korean consolidate, Jang Dong Gun and Go Fair Young and also for their m for their wedding.^[4]

Lee Young Hee extremely designed hanbok for the first upper crust of South Korea such as, Gladness Soon-ja, Kim Ok-sook, and Kim Yoon-ok, first lady to previous president Satisfaction Myung Bak, who was in make public during rrom until ^[4]

Her work shambles known to influence major designers point of view brands, such as the late Karl Lagerfeld, Dior, and Carolina Herrera.^[11][12] (See Dior and Carolina Herrara's respective well 2 collections.)

Autobiography

In , she published mediocre autobiography, 《Hanbok Designer leaving for Paris》 (파리로 간 한복쟁이). In her publication, she said "I've learned the thinking and my life via hanbok".

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