From visual art to wearable art
Toulouse Fashion Week is a natural extension of my artistic journey. For me, this stage is not simply a fashion event—it is another space where Korean traditional aesthetics meet contemporary art. I have long been creating new worlds by weaving together the stories I love with elements of Korean heritage. Through the TaleVerse by Estelle SO collection, I wished to share the lines, colors, and narratives embedded in hanbok with audiences around the world. The characters of TaleVerse, its folk-art motifs, visual works, and hanbok silhouettes all serve as the language and building blocks of that universe.
My participation this year continues the trajectory of exhibitions and collaborations I have been developing in France, and it resonates deeply with this year’s theme, Héritage (Heritage). I believe that tradition is not something distant—it lives within the ways we reinterpret and embody it today. Through this stage, I hope to show that hanbok is not merely a garment of the past but a form of contemporary art reborn in the present. This showcase is an attempt to expand the TaleVerse world from a 2D “visual art” seen on the page or screen, into a 3D “wearable art” experienced through the body, and further into a 4D artistic experience where time, form, and narrative evolve together. Ten characters will step out from the TaleVerse world, each wearing hanbok I have envisioned within that universe.
In the moment when stories become garments and garments become worlds, I hope to reveal the boundary where they dissolve into one another—through the language of fashion.