Benjamin wrote extensively about the daily tribulations of Korean women but, unlike many female Western observers, devoted little attention to their clothing. What she did write seems to have been ...

In an era where fast-fashion retailers ... but for women they’re rarer still. From the 1950s to the early 1970s, there was a tailor for women called Yangjangjeom in Seoul. But as soon as off-the-rack ...

It’s a country that rejects the Western world but that hasn’t stopped North Korean ... fashion show, complete with pale-faced models wiggling their hips in far from traditional clothing.

North Korea exported about $725 million worth of clothing last year ... and 98 percent of them are women. That’s the demographic that’s clearly going to suffer as a result of this,” he ...