Forget that one week when Fashion Week hits a major city and the streets are crawling with the best dressed Bloggers, Stylists, Designers and Fashionista's. Every day was a parade of personal style on the streets of Seoul. Never were two people seen with the exact same outfit on any given day. There was definitely particular trends but each person tailored that trend to suit their own style. It was SO beautiful.
Korea had a passion style and fashion that spread right down into the smaller towns I travelled to down the East Coast. There wasn't even a poorly dressed child to be seen in public. Everyone looked so great that I wanted the ground to open up and swallow me as I walked through Garosu-gil.
The first thing you need to know about Street Style in Seoul is Garosu-gil. It's a shopping district in Gangnam with trendy cafe's and packed with all the best of South Korean designer's flagship stores. I dropped $400 in about 45 minutes, it was too good. You'll pay a pretty penny for clothes in this district but you could wear a coat you bought in the Subway on the way there (like I did) and people wouldn't look twice as long as you looked good doing it.
On every street there was small time Fashion Blogger's approaching people to get a photo of their 'Outfit of the Day'. People comfortably accepted and posed for the photo's like they were just walking down the street with the wind in their hair not noticing the camera. I love these types of shots. Whilst they're staged to look natural, it captures what people are doing on the streets - just walking down them with friends looking good!
Garosu-gil is the place to be to when you're having a good hair day or just look good with no where to go. You can walk through the shops and down the streets whilst appreciating and taking style tips from the people who walk past you.
Garosu-gil is Street Style. Any Fashion Blogger with a clue is based there with an abundance of shots on offer every day. These are some of my favourite Korean Street Style bloggers on Instagram:
http://i.instagram.com/iamalexfinch/
http://i.instagram.com/jiminism/
http://i.instagram.com/youngjunkoo/
http://i.instagram.com/jjinii_/
http://i.instagram.com/joyrichkorea/
http://i.instagram.com/aake1004/
http://i.instagram.com/staff_myeongdong/
http://i.instagram.com/2z_look/
Blogs:
www.817street.tumblr.com
www.iamalexfinch.com
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