South Korea, Innit.

A girls day out to Seoul's Chyngyechon Stream and a flea market, my favourite restaurant (where you order from a vending machine!), the leaves changing near my apartment, padded matching jackets and trousers in brilliant patterns, and a Moomins mug at a cafe in Hongdae.

Meadham Kirchhoff SS12

A little Meadham Kirchhoff SS12 for you, just because I can't stop watching it.  The frills, the flounces, the pure delectable fashwan of it all.

Image: The Style Crusader

Fashion Week Internationale

Vice sent me this trailer for their series Fashion Week Internationale, which started today.  It reports on some of the more unorthodox fashion weeks around the globe (Columbian fashion week, anyone?) and the political, cultural and religious issues behind the shows featured.  With Seoul fashion week coming up, this struck a chord with me.  Although I generally follow the more prominent fashion weeks obsessively through the internet, I'm going to try and witness Seoul SS12 firsthand.

I'm hoping it's going to be a lot like this.

Global Gathering

Digitalism at Global Gathering Korea were epic.  Especially this song.

Dr Martens and Attack! Attack!

Attack! Attack! are performing in Cardiff's Dr Martens shop tonight as part of the brand's First and Forever Festival that's ongoing throughout the UK this week.  There are also gigs in the Leeds and London shops, with the festival culminating in a three-night ticketed event at Camden Barfly (other Welsh bands Rolo Tomassi and The Blackout are playing some of these nights).

If you want the chance to win prizes such as tickets to these gigs through Dr Martens then you need to go to this website and write about a 'first' - whether it's a first gig, first festival or a first love (aww).

(Image: Attack! Attack!)

Aweh

One of my friends launched a website called Aweh last Saturday in Seoul.  The party was cool, it was at this tiny expat art gallery called the Laughing Tree Lab.  I love parties in obscure locations; it makes them way more interesting.

The party would have been interesting enough anyway. Lots of quirky art, people and music.  Because the Laughing Tree Lab is a compact venue, everyone spilled out onto the pavements in front of the venue, chilling out while drinking home brew and soju (Korean vodka).

Aweh is a super slick-looking website.  I've become obsessed with in the short time it's been on the internet.  The concept is simple: mini bios and interviews with creatives all over the globe.  I'm sure it's been done before and it'll be done again.  The difference is that the guys behind Aweh have such a good taste in all things subcultural and know how to make a website look aesthetically awesome.

Read my post about Aweh on Chincha!? and make sure you check out Aweh itself.

Mulberry SS12

You know you're a fan of a collection when you right click save, right click save, right click save nineteen looks from their fashion show.

Mulberry SS12 is divine in that it looks like designer Emma Hill has taken a bunch of lifesize Sindy dolls (the much hipper, much less obvious version of Barbie...) and rolled them around in some sugar and sherbert.  It's such a change from the murky and darkly disappointing AW11 collection.

I'm a particular fan of looks six and eight because these are exactly the kind of things that would have been perfect to wear this summer in Seoul.  In fact, I'm sure I saw more than a few Korean girls wearing those mint green shorts and I've definitely been rocking the socks and sandals look recently (sorry haters!).

Watch the show here and coo over the cute colours and even cuter puppies that are seen on the runway.

Images: ElleUk