Korea Leading the Way for Men’s Bottoms

Wooyoungmi SS24. Shot by Mathieu Rainaud, Models indiana.vts jbaiboon

The waves of the streetwear founding fathers continue to be felt by the style of of the people. We see it everywhere throughout the street, runways, and high schools. With bottoms specifically, the middle point or balance of what the masses are willing to accept, and what the designers want to put out has been dominated by these baggy sillouttes introduced by the streetwear founding fathers and then MASTERED and successfully persuade to the high end buyers and fashion world by Demna at Balanciaga. This than evolved to a short moment with flared pants- and interestingly enough continues to thrive with Pharrell doing a master class of it with his recent incorporation of the silloutte in his personal style. The style of bottoms has now evolved to the extra wide pant. This hasn’t fully been accepted, but the group of people who are willing to push the bonderies in there everyday wear and be on the frontlines of fashion, their pant of choice in the current iteration of fashion is. The super wide pant. Non-pioneering fashion Brands are starting to reflect this and inplementing these in there current line ups, but…Korea has been here and is great at it. And now the sillouttes and mindest they hold near to them, are also the ones being accepted and asked for, and it is creating this Beautiful expansive energy of the two. This current style iteration, goes kindly to the foundations that have already been established in Korea and in their menswear. Their choice of fabric is in pitch-perfect harmony with these silhouettes. It provides the perfect drop, the perfect length, the perfect motion, clearly showing this isn’t new territory for them. Many Korean brands are still making their way to western stores, and because of that I sadly havnt’t been able to see as many of the brands I would like to see. But one of the many brands I have been able to experience is Wooyoungmi. They arguably are the preferred brand when looking at Korean fashion as a whole. You can feel that this brand is THE ONE, it has history, it commands the throne, and is mastering their craft. Their wide leg trouser is a great example of this. The brand sources their fabrics from Japan, and Italy given that these are one-hundread percent wool you’d assume it would be from italy. I don’t usually like to go to other countries outside of Italy when it comes to wool; but the use of Italian wool with Korean Manufacturing is mmm. The minute tailoring acheived in that to create this perfect pant, I can’t put enough words to it, it’s fucking amazing. Their nylon like other Korean brands seems to be another strong point outside of their greatness in shape. And the use of wool at Wooyoungmi is top tier. All in all i’m intrigued and excited to learn and feel more Korean brands, and honoured to be able to experience this brand. And now confidently know the Absolute when it comes to wide-leg trousers.