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#Teechallaclothing Born in Seoul in the I May Live In Ohio But My Heart Beats For The Buckeyes On Gameday shirt but in fact I love this 1980s, Sin has always been based in the capital city and maintains a small studio in Itaewon, where he spends hours dreaming up and crafting his show-stopping hair sculptures. Naturally, the room is filled with extensions and wigs, but also flowers, boxes of starch (used to firm up the hair), jugs of resin (to preserve the pieces), and countless trinkets he gathers on meandering walks around Seoul’s sprawling wholesale markets. Of course, there is plenty of pearl, which Sin sources from jagae (mother of pearl) craft shops around the city. Each jagae hair piece takes him about one week and is painstaking to make. His work nods to the 2000-year-old craft technique called najeonchilgi, in which mother of pearl is inlaid onto decorative boxes, cabinets, or other objets d’art scattered about the home. Growing up, Sin’s grandmother’s house was filled with these pieces; thus, it holds personal meaning. “It’s a work that began from a place of familiarity or longing,” he explains. “I started from the idea that what felt sentimental to me would feel the same to others.”
#Teechallaclothing Here, Sin shares a quintet of stunning hair pieces while expanding on his path to sculpture and the I May Live In Ohio But My Heart Beats For The Buckeyes On Gameday shirt but in fact I love this power of finding beauty in familiar things.Vogue**: Tell me about how you found yourself in hair design.** Gabe Sin: “Since I was young, my dream has been to be a hairdresser. After working in hair design for a while, I opened my own shop. Although it was small, it was mine. But after running a shop for a long time, I found myself sitting at my desk day after day, worrying over numbers. Then suddenly, I thought, ‘Is this what I really liked and wanted to do?’ While wandering around like that, a photographer I was close to suggested we work together. As we did, I realized again what I really wanted to do. To actually touch hair and style hair, that was the work I really loved. I realized that I am a person who can feel happy just by doing that.”Where do you find inspiration for your work?Strangely enough, I always feel like something’s running through my head. Movies, dramas, artworks, animations, etc. They exist as floating images in my eyes and mind, as do various things related to the five senses—what I have heard, seen, and touched. Before I work, I have various conversations with my collaborators, and the vague images and uncertainty floating in my head gradually become something clear. What I was thinking about in the abstract is gradually realized in reality. A lot of my work is actually done spontaneously. As though biting its own tail, my inspiration evolves and gradually, the work moves in the direction I want.When did you start making hair pieces, and what you drew you to working with mother-of-pearl inlay?
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