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"GALLERY SHILI tokyo" is a fashion brand launched in the winter of 2011 by Denis Park, a Korean-born designer who was educated in New York and now works in Tokyo and Barcelona.

Before coming to Japan in 2010, Denis worked in the New York art world as an art director and curator specializing in contemporary Asian art.

Having experienced first-hand the international enthusiasm for Asian arts and culture in New York, Denis founded a design firm in Tokyo where he rediscovered traditional Asian arts and crafts and modernized the designs to meet contemporary needs.

GALLERY SHILI Tokyo has created contemporary fashion items from vintage Japanese kimonos. Denis is considered one of the pioneers in rediscovering the beauty of this forgotten fabric and is credited with dramatically changing the image of the kimono from "old fashioned" to "super fashionable."

"GALLERY SHILI tokyo" is exhibited as a pop-up store mainly in Tokyo's leading department stores such as Takashimaya, Seibu, and Keikyu. It has also been exhibited overseas in Portland, Milan, Beijing, Shanghai, Taiwan, and other cities.

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「SUS Gallery」 での展示会全景、東京、2011
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「Regent Galleria Hotel VIP Lounge」 での展示会全景、 台湾、台北、2013
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「Tea House」での展示会全景, 中国、北京、2016
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「Fabio Salon」での展示会全景, 東京, 2019

Dhuni's other projects include:

"Rediscovering Urushi" is a traveling exhibition of contemporary Korean and Japanese lacquer design curated by Denis (exhibited in Tokyo (2011), Beijing (2013) and Portland (2014)).

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「駐日韓国文化院」での展示会全景、 東京、2011
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「ポートランドジャパニーズガーデン」での展示会全景, アメリカ、 ポートランド, 2014

"NICOICHI" is a new concept lacquer chopsticks brand designed by Denis as creative director in 2014. Denis and this product were featured on the Japanese NHK broadcast program "Bi no Tsubo".

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「 NICOICHI 」, 2014
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「 NICOICHI 」 についての「 美の壺 」とのインタビュー, 2019

"DOMANAITA" is a new concept lacquered cutting board designed and produced by Denis in 2015. High-end Japanese restaurants around the world proudly use this product as an alternative to traditional wooden or plastic cutting boards.

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「DOMANAITA」, 2015

Working with Korean lacquer artisans, Denis reinvented lacquered fabrics, a technique long forgotten. Monks who lived in temples deep in the mountains usually wore lacquered clothing to ward off insects and to stay cool in the summer.

"Urushi Mode" is a lacquered summer coat that Denis created using this rediscovered material, which won a special prize at the Ishikawa International Lacquerware Exhibition in 2017.

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「 Urushi Mode 」と漆の生地、2017

The "Vintage Bojagi Cushion Collection" is her next project, in which she takes her private collection of vintage Korean bojagi fabric and recreates it into a large cushion collection.

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「 Vintage Bojagi Cushion Collection 」