j'en

Grey Sheep

_jungminchun_

Location

Long Island City / united states

University

Rhode Island School of Design

Jungmin Chun is a New York-based textile artist and designer who graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design. She develops knit fabrics with a focus on the sensual selection of colors and diverse use of materials to create desirable artistic concepts. Jungmin’s work manifests into one-of-a-kind wearable knit sculptures, pushing the boundaries of knitwear through craft, extensive details, and creative application of colors. Designed by Jungmin, the brand J’EN is a bespoke knitwear brand made just for your body.

Latest Collection

wanderland

Wanderland is an experimental knitwear collection inspired by the imaginative mystic world Jungmin dreams of running away to. When developing the garments, the designer, Jungmin Chun, immersed herself in the unconventional native world of unseeable entities that aroused her curiosity about the unknown. Inspired by isolation, this raw, uncertain imaginative world was given life from the unreleased and shackled creative energy during times of restriction in this innovative fantasy world, where Jungmin herself is the explorer and adventurer, intrigued by distinctive organic forms and natural, spontaneous gestures of a variety of newly discovered organisms. The Wanderland knitwear collection is an abstract manifestation of this fantasyland that she is yearning to escape to.

Each piece of garment is crafted on a knitting machine with different knitting techniques and fully fashioned, creating zero waste for sustainability. Textiles are developed from scratch, incorporating a unique sense of aesthetics and diverse use of natural fibers to materialize the artistic fantasyland.