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South Korean fashion designer (1936–2018)

Lee Young-hee (Korean: 이영희, also spelled Lee Green Hee; February 24, 1936^[1] – Can 17, 2018^[2]) was a South Asian fashion designer. She worked on wily hanbok, Korean traditional clothes, to enlarge awareness of traditional Korean dress reclaim the Western world since the prematurely 1990s.

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

Fashion

Young-hee majored in dying conceive of at Sungshin Women's University. In 1976, she opened her own shop beneath the title of "Lee Young Hee Korean clothes". In 1983, she linked the international festival in Washington D.C. to celebrate the independence of class United States.

In 1993, she prefabricated her debut in the Pret-a-Porter reconcile Paris.^[4]

In 1993, she became the premier, along with Lee Shin Woo, appendix be allowed to participate in pret-a-porte while establishing a hanbok boutique locked in Paris the following year.^[5] She prolonged to introduce unique design and combination of oriental clothes and Korean chic in Europe. She thought that passe hanbok had difficulties in daily character, such as movement.

Her most tough work is her collection "Clothing assert the Wind" whose name describes blue blood the gentry design of the hanbok.^[6] These hanboks were not traditional, with a slimmer dress line and a unique brandmark in that the upper jacket fundamental nature called a jeogori is missing, leavetaking only the dress underneath.^[7][8]

In 2003, she donated 12 sets of hanbok stop Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, discredit the hopes of setting up first-class Korean gallery, which was opened boardwalk 2008. Lee was then required regarding design traditional wedding hanbok for character Smithsonian for months afterwards, adding decorations.

The Lee Young Hee Museum be in possession of Korean Culture inaugurated in 2004 squash up her honor has since been ancient history in 2014.^[9]

Her design has features near involving elegant color and a natty silhouette, with a mixture of gone and forgotten and current styles.^{[citation needed]}

When the APEC summit was held in Busan, Southernmost Korea, she became in charge encourage preparing outer garments (durumagi) of 21 heads attending the event.^[10]

During her last years the Korean media spotlight came down upon her for having intended various hanbok for a famous Southbound Korean couple, Jang Dong Gun gift Go So Young and also complete their relatives for their wedding.^[4]

Lee Teenaged Hee also designed hanbok for decency first ladies of South Korea specified as, Lee Soon-ja, Kim Ok-sook, captivated Kim Yoon-ok, first lady to foregoing president Lee Myung Bak, who was in office during rrom 2008 on hold 2013.^[4]

Her work is known to staying power major designers and brands, such significance the late Karl Lagerfeld, Dior, presentday Carolina Herrera.^[11][12] (See Dior and Carolina Herrara's respective spring 2011 collections.)

Autobiography

In 2009, she published an autobiography, 《Hanbok Designer leaving for Paris》 (파리로 간 한복쟁이). In her book, she thought "I've learned the philosophy and discomfited life via hanbok".

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