fashion: tailoring / seoul
All in hand
The handmade principles that guide tailoring brand Lerici are reflected throughout its set-up.
Writer Jeyup S. Kwaak Photography Taemin Ha
For Kim Daechul, founder and creative director of fashion design studio Lerici, a well-made piece of clothing needs to evoke emotion. “If you wear one of our jackets and don’t get a certain feeling, it means that I didn’t do my job,” he says. Sometimes that’s an appreciation of a jacket’s hand-cut lapel or the warm embrace of a tailored woollen coat. Those small details make the difference for Kim.
This appreciation for quiet luxury has translated to the way he set up the label’s design studio in a converted villa, (…)
Writer Jeyup S. Kwaak
Photography Taemin Ha
