Cal State Fullerton Professor of Theatre and Dance Hyun Sook Kim has been invited by the Korean Fashion & Costume Design Association to present her new creative costume artwork at the 2025 International Invited Fashion Exhibition.
The international exhibition will be held in Sejong Art Gallery in Seoul, Korea, from Aug. 16-23.
The purpose of the international exhibition is to enhance global design sensibility and promote international exchange among professional fashion and costume designers, college educators, and students in the field. Works that have already been exhibited, are highly imitative, or have been submitted to other competitions are strictly excluded.
Kim’s costume artwork is titled “Swan Lake Abstraction.” Inspired by the classic ballet “Swan Lake,” Kim created the costume artwork form not in the traditional and conventional style, but in a newly intuitive and contemporary way to present abstract and organic aesthetics. Kim used “Fosshape” thermoplastic nontraditional current materials and created organic and abstract lines and shapes by taking the white color of the swan’s feathers. This is a new, creative contemporary abstraction inspired by the traditional ballet “Swan Lake.”
At CSUF, Kim teaches the Creative Costume Art course, which was approved as an official course in the theatre costume curriculum in 2024. In this course, students learn critical thinking in costume design, new trends in materials and creative technology of construction methods.