KNTM 5 Models in Seoul Fashion Week 2015: The Girls

Holler! This post is just to update us fierce fashion angels of what the KNTM 5 models did in Seoul Fashion Week last week in Dongdaemun Design Plaza, or DDP. Yes, it's amazing to see them working their butts off, strutting their stuff on the runway for various Korean designers.

Seoul Fashion Week official poster, courtesy of the Seoul Fashion Week website.

Just a bit of a background info, Seoul Fashion Week (more like SFW), is a bi-annual fashion event in Korea. One in March and the other in October. It is hosted by Seoul Metropolitan Government and developed by Seoul Design Foundation. The goal of the organizers is to make the event popular and relevant to the fashion industry in general, just like the famous New York, Milan, London and Paris Fashion Weeks.

Dongdaemun Design Plaza. Photo courtesy of the owner.

Korea is one of the most innovative fashion centers in Asia-Pacific, after Tokyo and Manila. I quite agree that this is really needed, because of the Hallyu wave sweeping the world's largest continent as of now. People are raving and talking about the quirky, carefree yet uber-stylish Korean fashion sense, and personally, it encouraged people to cross the boundaries and be fashionably chic even in the daily grind.

So much for the history lesson, and let's get the main meat started. I searched far and wide for the photos of our beloved Top Model contestants, especially this Cycle's models, strutting their stuff in Seoul Fashion Week.

Let's start with the girls, since they're the primary reason why we have Fashion Weeks like this. Hahaha kidding. Some of the girls posted their photos on Instagram, which gave me such a headache because I cannot freaking post them here. Ah, the agony. :( Anyway, I got some photos on Tumblr (credits to the owners!), and I'll be sharing these to you. These came either from lookbooks or from the actual runway action. Some are backstage pics, though.

Hwang Gippeum aka Shiseido Goddess for Beetle Beetle's 2015 lookbook. Fierceness in florals. According to my extensive research (read: stalking), she was an experienced model prior to the show. She's signed in to Ice Models Milan under the name Joy Hwang (Gippeum means 'joy' in Korean). She also modeled for Claudia Ligari in Milan Fashion Week years ago. My Shiseido goddess also walked for..

Groundwave S/S 2015 and...

Steve J and Yoni P S/S 2015. Look at how fierce she was here. Smoldering.

Kim Yerim for EAGLE (I dunno the exact name of the brand, kkk) with Kim Jonghoon.

Another one for So It Goes lookbook for S/S 2015 collection. My, she looked great with shorter hair. Glad she maintained it.

My baby Kim Minjung backstage at Arches Spring S/S 2015 collection. She looked chic!

Kim Minjung in Seoul Fashion Week, day 1. Freshness is the best.

I just noticed that there were a lot of pictures taken outside DDP of the models walking for the shows there. Suddenly, DDP became a model paradise for fans and junkies like me. Aww, if only I could go there.. *sigh*

Another outdoor candid shot, this time of Hyun Jieun. DDP became an impromptu runway even before the shows started, because of all the chic and fashionable outfits of the models. Street fashion yet runway-ready.

Jieun backstage for Ki-blah blah S/S 2015 collection. Dang, I forgot the name!

For Kwak Hyun Joo's 2015 S/S collection. I love the Great Gatsby hair. Roaring Twenties rad.

Jung Sohyun also booked a lot of shows: Mag & Logan, Kiok with Gippeum and Jieun, Leyii, Nohke with dramatic eye makeup, Metro City with some weird red hair, Soulpot, Benjamin Cadette and 2Placebo. Gurl was def working her tush off! She booked a lot more than the remaining models! AHAHA sweet, sweet revenge. Sadly, I cannot upload 'em pics here because of dang Instagram. So I put the links there ^, and ya can check it out.

These are all I can get from the Web, with special thanks to the owners of the photos. If you can give me some photos of our fave models here, please do so. I'll really appreciate it and will credit you as the source in the updated ones. Hope you enjoy it and don't worry, I'll be posting the guys in a short while.

xoxo

Photos courtesy of the owners via Tumblr.