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This year, the “25th Busan Fashion Design Competition,” held in BEXCO on October 4, was a feast of awards for DSU Department of Design students, who took the Grand Prize, the Gold Prize, and several Bronze Prizes.

This follows from and continues the similar successes of last year’s DSU entrants, who took the Grand Prize, the Gold Prize, the Silver Prize, and the Bronze Prize at the “24th Busan Fashion Design Competition.”

The competition, co-hosted by the Busan Metropolitan City Council and the Busan Fashion Textile Industry Cooperative Association, involved a first round in which entrants submitted designs, from which 40 were selected for the second round. In the second and final round, the completed outfits of those 40 were presented with models on a fashion runway.

Gwak Na-gyeong, a Junior majoring in Fashion Design, was the recipient of the Grand Prize for her entry Alpha Girl; she also received 5 million won. In the concept for her winning entry, 'Alpha girl' means a strong woman with a challenging spirit. The dress emphasizes the waist line and the inner suit is reminiscent of a corset, emphasizing femininity, while the exaggerated shoulders and over-sized silhouette of the layered braided skirts encapsulate a feeling of postmodernism. In contrast, the waist and arm parts of the suede straps are braided, giving a solid and tough armor-like feeling that is in contradistinction to the gentle impression one gains from first seeing the front.