BEAUTY: Clothing--Wooyoungmi

Youngmi Woo said she was thinking of a return to elegance both externally as well as internally when she created her Wooyoungmi FW '25-'26 collection shown at Paris Fashion Week. She thinks the world has lost its, how I interpret her remarks, state of individual self-respect. And I must agree with her. To live a life of self-respect, of elegance, means to slow down, and to value oneself enough to live with grace and gentility.

As I say at the beginning of every fashion season, I look forward to seeing how designers take an inspiration, an idea--sometimes an abstract or complex idea--and manifest it within their medium. Like any artist. And here, this state of elegance manifested itself in beautifully tailored suiting (look at those nipped waists) adorned with flowers as a brooch, but in the same suiting material (or leather!). An elegant statement, indeed. Florals and botanicals floated through the rest of the collection. But in the grand scheme of things, the clothing is unimportant... it is the inner state of wanting to make life--yours and the world around you--as good as it can be that will heal the world.

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