JWL

Born and raised in Seoul, Jaewoo studied BFA fashion design at Ewha Womans university. Continuing to follow a creative path, she subsequently moved to New York to take an MFA in fashion design and society at parsons school of design. During the mfa programs, she worked on multiple design project such as dvf project at DVF USA, Bottega Veneta project at Kering USA and confidentiality design project for Loewe at LVMH Paris. Her graduate collection featured in the wallpaper graduate directory for 2014, and she was hand picked as one of ten finalists of the its fashion competition 2014, later being sold exclusively at the cartel in Dubai.

Lee founded her brand, womenswear label JWL, based on her multi faceted personal identity, connecting her past, present and future. Both the birth and the development of her designs are rooted in her understanding and appreciation of the ‘souls’ of each fabric she uses; how they differ, how they combine and compliment each other, and how the color, texture and construction of each work together to engineer her designs. Her creations are a response to her personal story so far, her natural curiosity and interest in the world around her and a visual manifestation of her ideas of beauty, informed by heightened emotion and the creative thought process.

Education

The Class of 2013
MFA / Fashion Design and Society Parsons the New School O for Design

The Class of 2005
BFA / Fashion Design Ewha Womans University