Baik Tag

When couture designer Jisoo Baik found herself seated between Jean-Paul Gaultier and Jeremy Scott at Björk’s orchestra concert, she was hit by the enormity of the moment. “I used to be overwhelmed and appreciative to her stylist [Edda Gudmundsdottir] because they're really open-minded to young designers,” said Paris-based Baik, who might be making her couture debut on Tuesday. “They really opened the brand to everyone who's interested by design.” Jisoo Baik Courtesy Only months prior, the Icelandic musician, then preparing for the discharge of her 2022 “Fossora” album, had made an instantaneous beeline toward a light-weight and delicate structure that appear to drift across the human form — certainly one of Baik’s designs, from her graduate collection on the Institut Français de la Mode,...