"When Sunja was young, living in Korea, she had very loving parents and a happy life, although they weren't well off," Chae says. "In that regard, I wanted to use very warm color tones like peach and pink colors as the main inspiration for her clothes. But after she moved to Japan, I shifted to cold colors like blue shades since she had departed from those times of love and had begun to face a harsh reality."
She adds: "We were also aware that in this time, there were certain Korean people who were wearing Western clothes, but average Korean people would've worn hanbok. So we started off primarily with hanbok, and after Sunja moved to Japan, we wanted to show her wardrobe change gradually as she got used to life in Japan more and more. Her fashion items would change item by item. We thought about where would she have gotten these clothes, and we concluded that those cardigans and the Western items would've come from Kyunghee's wardrobe."
