A quote on the wall: “Style is not what you wear. It’s what you do while wearing it.”
The first room was a single vitrine. Inside: a faded, oversized cotton button-down. Next to it, a fuzzy video loop played: a seventeen-year-old Gianna, then Jun Ji-hyun, walking down a rainy Gangnam street for a magazine tryout. She had no stylist. She had borrowed the shirt from her older brother. Gianna Jun Nude Video
A single item rested on a pedestal: a pair of scuffed white sneakers, signed in sharpie: “To Mina—walk away from anyone who says you need heels.” A quote on the wall: “Style is not what you wear
“Do I feel powerful in these dresses? No. I feel… quiet. The dress makes noise so I don’t have to.” Next to it, a fuzzy video loop played:
Mina had placed a low bench in the center. On it, headphones played an interview excerpt:
The Shape of Air
On the far wall, a single sentence in Gianna’s handwriting: