Known as fashion designer, Eva Chun, Eva was born in Seoul, South Korea. At the age of 11, she was chosen by two great masters of Korean traditional watercolor, Byun Kwan Sik and Kim Eun Ho, as their protégé. But her training as a great artist was abruptly stopped as she had to come to the United States with her family. During her college years, she started to work for film production companies. But her true passion was art so she enrolled at the Otis Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles.
At Otis, Eva put together a small collection of simple evening dresses and tailored suits and showed it to a buyer for Neiman Marcus. The buyer placed a sizeable order and that started her fashion company from her living room. As her collection received great reviews and high demand, she soon followed by opening a showroom and a manufacturing company. As her collection gained international success, selling to Bergdorf, Barney’s, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue and many specialty boutiques in major cities around the world, Eva opened her flagship showroom in 550 Seventh Avenue in New York. Eva Chun's clothes, priced from about $700 to $3,000.
Within a few years, she joined CFDA in 1991 and was touted as ‘one of the top five young designers in America’ by Bernadine Morris, fashion editor of The New York Times. Her designs have also appeared in numerous issues of Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, the cover of Vanity Fair, as well as on the covers of Women’s Wear Daily. Many of her designs were photographed by eminent photographers like Helmut Newton and Herb Ritts. She was also a favorite designer to celebrities like Nicole Kidman, Sharon Stone and Angelica Houston to name a few.
While her career was flourishing in New York City, she met collector, designer and restaurateur (Tribeca, Mr. Chow , Michael Chow. They married in 1992. Two years later, Eva left Seventh Avenue behind to have a child.
Since then with her husband, Michael, Eva has been collaborating on everything from expanding their business, to designing and collecting. Eva also serves on the Board of Trustees at the Los Angeles County Museum where she has founded and co-chairs an annual ‘Art + Film’ gala with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Although Eva’s been busy doing numerous endeavors, she continues to be very much in the fashion world and plans to return to work as a designer.
This gorgeous 80's dress by Eva Chun is available at Inspiration Vintage.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/95959353
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| Eva Chun Dress $150 Photography by Alfa Image Photography |
