Bajowoo Is the Breakout Designer Korea Has Been Looking For

One balmy night in August, tucked in the back of a retro deli in Sinsa-dong, Bajowoo was wracking his brain for a place to smoke--more specifically, where to present his next collection, despite the recent slew of public smoking bans in Seoul. "If they write up a ticket every time a model walks by with a cigarette, can we just pay each fine?" he wondered, tugging a spike of lilac hair into place. "How many tickets would that be--four a minute?" On a hazy parking lot on Mount Namsan this week, wi...