Che Won Han Cho
Collection
RECONCILIATION
This collection is a study and my personal journey in duality—a synthesis of cultural tension, displacement, and personal memory. Rooted in the lived experience of navigating two cultural identities—Korean and Mexican—it draws from traditional silhouettes, textures, and visual codes, only to dismantle and reassemble them into something deeply contemporary. Through garments, film, and spatial composition, the work asks what it means to belong, to hurt, and to heal.
It is not about heritage as fixed form, but heritage as evolving material. Each look in the collection reflects a different point on the emotional spectrum of cultural hybridity. Structure and softness are deliberately interwoven—tailored rigidity meets fluid draping, traditional motifs clash and harmonize with raw minimalism. These are not just garments, but emotional translations—worn gestures that carry the weight of two histories and the gesture toward a third.
Bio
Che Won Han Cho is a Korean-Mexican designer based in New York, whose work explores the intersection of cultural identity, memory, and emotional narrative through fashion in a minimal and curated manner. Born in Mexico to Korean parents, and having lived in Mexico, China, Korea, and the United States, his design perspective is shaped by global movement and personal duality. His work embraces contradiction — combining structured restraint with quiet vulnerability — and reflects a commitment to storytelling through garment.
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hancc869@newschool.edu
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