Designer spotlight: Gayeon Lee SS15

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Gayeon Lee is a womenswear designer who completed the acclaimed Fashion MA Womenswear at Central Saint Martin’s college in London in 2013. This was following her graduation in BA in Textile Art & Fashion Design, which she studied at the Hong-Ik University in Seoul, Korea.

Her interest in fine art has provided a firm basis of aesthetics in fashion. During her MA at CSM she focused on womenswear fashion design at a more creative and specialised level by experimenting with different methods and approaches within fashion design to create her own identity as a designer.  She gained great exposure with her graduation collection, in which her pieces featured in various magazines and press medias. In addition the iconic pop-artist Lady Gaga rented out eight outfits of her MA collection, and wore one whilst promoting her new album in New York in 2013.

Having worked in London and New York for several luxury labels, Gayeon has valuable experiences and great knowledge of the luxury market, which has benefited the launched of her own label GAYEON LEE in 2014. The latest S/S’15 collection is a stunning whirlwind of gentle pastels and light floral pieces.

GAYEON LEE is a luxury womenswear label that suggests a sophisticated simplicity for confident women. Gayeon’s passion for arts and crafts, also see’s many artisanal elements incorporated in her work, which enhances the delicate finish to her thought-out and sophisticated pieces. Her conceptually driven collections always reveal new possibilities in textures, shapes and proportions.

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