wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources wooyoungmi news newspapers books scholar jstor free images october 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message wooyoungmi is a menswear clothing brand launched in south korea by the designer woo young mi in 2002 . 1 sold through self operating stores and leading global retailers art and architecture are continual sources of inspiration for the brand 2 and it has become known for skilled tailoring . 3 wooyoungmi type private company industry fashion founded 2002 headquarters seoul south korea key people wooyoungmi founder jang hee woo katie chung products apparel accessories website official website contents 1 history 2 wooyoungmi today 3 references 4 external links history edit woo youngmi was born in seoul south korea in 1959 . 4 her father was the head of an architectural firm which allowed him to travel extensively bringing home international magazines which a young woo youngmi studied growing curious about the world outside korea . along with her mother who taught both art and piano they did their utmost to use what they had to provide a creative environment for their five children . 5 wooyoungmi took up fashion studies at sung kyun kwan university in seoul . on graduating in 1983 she was selected to represent korea in japan s osaka international fashion competition and won . 6 in 1988 woo youngmi launched the menswear brand solid homme starting with one shop . today there are 21 stores opened with hyundi group as well as others with lotte shinsegae and galleria . 7 in 1993 woo youngmi and some young designer friends begin new wave as a platform for young designers to show their work . this paved the way for today s seoul fashion week . 8 in 2002 wooyoungmi was launched in paris . woo wanted to establish a designer brand that allowed her the freedom to design for the vision she holds of her ideal man . 9 wooyoungmi has shown on the paris menswear week since 2003 . 10 in 2011 wooyoungmi became an official member of la chambre syndicale de la mode masculine . 11 also that year the brand collaborated with london department store selfridges on the event my coat my gift . five young london creatives were asked to redesign the brands best selling coat no. 51 . the resulting designs were exhibited in a special pop up at selfridges . a percentage of sales of the coat no. 51 during this event were donated to the charity art against knives . 12 in 2012 under the art direction of daughter katie chung wooyoungmi began collaborating with artists for the creation of their advertising campaigns . 13 artists to have taken part in this project to name a few are sculptures guerra de la paz 14 and korean sculpture osang gwon with his unique blend of sculpture and photography 15 and painter clemens krauss 16 in june 2014 wooyoungmi launched an exclusive capsule with luxury online retailer mr porter . 17 in september of that year woo youngmi was named one of 500 people shaping the global fashion industry by the business of fashion in their bof 500 2014 . 18 wooyoungmi today edit katie chung daughter of woo youngmi was announced joint creative director of wooyoungmi in 2014 and presented her first show in june 14 for ss15 . 19 she has 24 stand alone stores across asia with one european flagship store 20 in paris as well as being stocked in high end department stores across europe such as london s selfridges and paris le bon march . references edit http jamoollife.jp collection 2011 04 wooyoungmi 2011 autumnwinter m.php designer profile brand concept & interview http www.businessoffashion.com woo young mi http robbreport.com fashion wooyoungmi partners mr porter capsule collection http www.fashionwindows.com runway shows wooyoungmi default.asp fashion windows wooyoungmi http www.businessoffashion.com 2014 11 woo youngmi says focus design trust team.html http www.businessoffashion.com 2014 11 woo youngmi says focus design trust team.html http www.businessoffashion.com 2014 11 woo youngmi says focus design trust team.html http www.interviewmagazine.com fashion menswear monday wooyoungmi print http www.businessoffashion.com 2014 11 woo youngmi says focus design trust team.html http www.style.com contributors wooyoungmi http www.gentside.com acne trois nouveaux membres a la chambre syndicale de la mode masculine art29191.html http stylesalvage.blogspot.fr 2011 12 my coat my gift from wooyoungmi.html http www.businessoffashion.com 2014 11 woo youngmi says focus design trust team.html http www.anothermag.com current view 4033 guerra de la paz for wooyoungmi aw14 http thesteidz.com 2014 11 22 osang gwon http decoymagazine.blogspot.fr 2012 09 wooyoungmi aw2012 campaign.html http www.selectism.com 2014 06 03 wooyoungmi mr porter exclusive interview http www.businessoffashion.com woo young mi http www.newton mag.com katie chung chez wooyoungmi affaire famille http www.fashiontrendsetter.com content articles wooyoungmi shop paris.html wooyoungmi european flagship store external links edit wooyoungmi official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wooyoungmi & oldid 739835288 categories high fashion brandsluxury brandsclothing brands of south koreasouth korean brandshidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from october 2015all articles with topics of unclear notability navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact 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