ASPARAGUS 2027 S/S: BETWEEN BOUNDARIES, WITHIN TENSION Lee Myung-jae’s show on Dosan-daero at the Gangnam Festival proved that genuine avant-garde is born at the intersection of vulnerability and strength, bypassing predictable gender-neutral clichés. Rejecting standard streetwear silhouettes, the designer constructed a rigid architectural conflict directly on the Seoul asphalt. Heavy, masculine armour clashes with exposure, whilst radical asymmetry and fractured tailoring hold the garments in a state of permanent kinetic tension. The urban friction of Gangnam and the melancholic pace of EPEX members Baekseung and Mu, who walked the runway, only heightened this conceptual unease. The definitive marker of the collection is the “second skin” effect. Distressed, open-knit knitwear and sheer mesh are deployed not for shock value, but to meticulously ration nudity—simultaneously shielding the body and leaving it exposed. It is a mature, uncompromising statement on the liminal state of ...