For Korean designer Darni Park of BAJUYO, tradition and innovation can go hand in hand. At Fashion Week Asia, he presented “TIE TIME: KOREA,” a collection that reimagines traditional hanbok through contemporary design, drawing particular inspiration from the goreum, the ties used to fasten a hanbok.
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Where Engineering Meets Korean Fashion
The collection brings Korean heritage into focus through details like moran embroidery, featuring peonies, a traditional Korean floral motif. But Park’s engineering background also informs how these cultural elements take shape. By transforming the goreum into modular, detachable components, he introduces a sense of versatility to a detail rooted in traditional dress.
A New Chapter for BAJUYO
Beyond the garments themselves, the collection marks an opportunity for Park to share his cultural heritage with an international audience. Representing Korea at Fashion Week Asia is an honor, he says, especially after BAJUYO’s involvement in various projects at home. The opportunity has also given him renewed motivation to push his work further.
“I’m grateful that I get to share Korean culture on a global level. It gives me the drive and motivation to work harder moving forward.”
– Darni Park
Still, the prospect of representing his country comes with a degree of nervousness. Park hopes to do justice to Korean tradition while showing how beautifully its details can be interpreted through contemporary fashion. With “TIE TIME: KOREA,” he brings together the precision of engineering and the richness of cultural heritage, offering a fresh perspective on how the past can inform what we wear today.
Photos Courtesy of FASHION WEEK ASIA. Photographed by EXCEL PANLAQUE of KLIQ INC.
Frequently Asked Questions
“TIE TIME: KOREA” is Darni Park’s collection for BAJUYO, presented at Fashion Week Asia. It reimagines the traditional hanbok by reworking the goreum — the ties that fasten the garment — into modular, detachable components shaped by Park’s engineering background.
The goreum is the tie used to fasten a traditional Korean hanbok. In BAJUYO’s “TIE TIME: KOREA,” Darni Park transforms it into modular, detachable pieces, introducing versatility to a detail long rooted in traditional Korean dress.
Darni Park is a Korean fashion designer and founder of BAJUYO, whose work merges traditional Korean elements with an engineering background. His approach applies structural, modular thinking to hanbok details, including moran embroidery and detachable goreum ties.
Moran embroidery features the peony, a traditional Korean floral motif. In BAJUYO’s “TIE TIME: KOREA,” it brings Korean heritage into focus alongside the collection’s engineering-inspired, modular reinterpretation of the hanbok’s goreum ties.
Darni Park presented BAJUYO at Fashion Week Asia to represent Korea on an international stage, an opportunity he calls an honor following BAJUYO’s involvement in projects at home. He says the platform motivates him to keep pushing his work forward.
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