This Secret Shop Is Where You Can Buy Unisex Korean Fashion in NYC
The founders of the Bushwick boutique show off their styles while hanging out six floors above the world.
When New York gets you down, it’s comforting to know there are still places to hide — like through the window onto a rickety old fire escape, six floors above the world. For the fashion-forward, another escapist wonderland is Fig Collective, a low-profile, appointment-only shop in Brooklyn. The Bushwick boutique, which also sells clothes online, is one of the only places in the world where you can find a select handful of young, largely unisex brands from the founders’ native South Korea: companies like Ader Error, VEI-8, and Bouton that specialize in a specific kind of uncool cool. Jeans feature a slight wing at the ankle and, perhaps, a simple word like “RUN” embroidered above the knee. Black bomber jackets zip up over a bright blue inset panel. Even a humble striped shirt has extra-long sleeves, with holes for convenience about the wrist. In their adopted home, three of Fig Collective’s four members (the crew’s film director Seungbum Hong, 29, is not pictured) wear a mixture of the American and South Korean brands they love.
LEFT: Dress ZARA, jacket ADER ERROR, shoes NIKE. MIDDLE: Jacket THIS IS NEVER THAT, pants and belt ADER ERROR, shoes Y-3. RIGHT: Jeans, T-shirt and longsleeve ADER ERROR, shoes AMI.
Sungjune Jang, 29, photographer
Janne Chung, 33, design director and stylist
Dress ZARA, shoes NIKE
Yongjae Kim, 33, creative director.
Jeans, T-shirt and longsleeve ADER ERROR, shoes AMI.
LEFT: T-shirt BIANCA CHANDON, jeans and shoes AMI, jacket SUPREME.
MIDDLE: T-shirt GOSHA RUBCHINSKIY, jeans ANDERSSON BELLE, boots MARGIELA, jacket VINTAGE.
RIGHT: T-shirt DIME, jacket SUPREME, flannel RAG & BONE, pants RICK OWENS, shoes Y-3.
LEFT: Jacket THIS IS NEVER THAT, pants and belt ADER ERROR, shoes Y-3.
MIDDLE: Jeans, T-shirt and longsleeve ADER ERROR, shoes AMI.
RIGHT: Dress ZARA, jacket ADER ERROR, shoes NIKE.