INU Department of Fashion Industry Graduation Exhibition

The 35th Graduation Exhibition of the Department of Fashion Industry at Incheon National University, titled AFTERIMAGE, will be held from June 17 to June 22, 2026, at Art Space on the first floor of Building 2 at Incheon National University.

The exhibition, AFTERIMAGE, presents the memories, sensations, and design explorations that graduating students have accumulated throughout their university years. Drawing on four years of learning and experience, the students express their own perspectives and emotions through garments, recording this moment of transition before a new beginning after graduation.

The main theme, AFTERIMAGE, refers to an image that remains after an external stimulus disappears, as well as traces of the past that cannot be erased. Rather than simply representing what has vanished, it symbolizes images that remain over time and reemerge through sensation and memory. The exhibition highlights the afterimages left by fashion and the moment those afterimages expand into future possibilities.

Each designer interprets the shared theme of AFTERIMAGE through their own individuality and perspective, presenting diverse visual approaches. From works focused on memories and emotions from the past to pieces that sculpturally express the flow of lingering sensations and traces of images, the students will showcase distinctive collections through different design languages and forms of e-x-p-r-e-s-s-i-o-n. They will also present virtual fashion films using 3D printing and video-sound AI, demonstrating their expertise in fashion that crosses the boundaries between online and offline spaces.

This graduation exhibition is a creative outcome built on the students’ accumulated formative sensibility, understanding of materials, passion for fashion, and spirit of experimentation. Through detailed exploration of material properties, structure, movement, and wearability, the students experimentally express their individual themes through silhouettes, details, surfaces, textures, and the spatial relationship formed between the body and clothing.

Based on the Department of Fashion Industry’s curriculum, which organically integrates physical and digital practices, students have learned technical methodologies required in the contemporary fashion industry, including CAD pattern design, 3D virtual fitting, and AI-based spatial implementation. They have connected these technologies with their own creative design languages to produce highly refined works. This demonstrates that students are developing into creative talents who can materialize design sensibility and experimentation through technical capability and actively respond to the changing fashion environment.

The exhibition will be organized into various sections according to each student’s individual concept. Each section will unfold through personal storytelling and formative language. Beyond garments, the exhibition will incorporate spatial composition, visitor flow, lighting, video, and music to create an immersive exhibition experience. Through this, it aims to convey to visitors the sensory expansion and power of imagery created by fashion.

Professor Hyun-seung Lee, Chair of the Department of Fashion Industry and one of the faculty advisors for the graduation fashion collection, stated, “The 35th Graduation Exhibition, AFTERIMAGE, is a space where visitors can encounter the research and creative processes students have accumulated over the past four years. Beyond simply viewing completed garments, visitors will be able to experience the worlds students have built and the flow of their design thinking.”

Professor Sun-hee Kim, also a faculty advisor for the graduation fashion collection, said, “This exhibition is the result of students interpreting fashion through their own perspectives and languages. Each work contains long-accumulated reflection, experimentation, and the growth process of each student as a creator. I hope this exhibition will remain as an afterimage in each visitor’s memory in their own way.”

The exhibition is free of charge and open to industry professionals and the general public. Visitors are invited to experience the creative worlds of young designers who will lead the next generation.