K-Pop Fashion | What is Cyberpunk Fashion?

Cyberpunk Fashion or also known as techwear is a subgenre of style that mimics and portrays predicted fashion of a dystopian futuristic world, it’s a setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech". The biggest influence to the style includes predictions of how clothing would look with technological advancements and artificial intelligence.

This genre is heavily influenced by films like Johnny Mnemonic, Blade Runner, and The Matrix and could be interpreted as being "futuristic gothic fashion" and involves trench coats, boots, shiny black clothing, colored "dreads" that women might wear. Expect a lot of leather and military motifs, accessories features a lot of bold choices.

If you’re interested in understanding more of the cyberpunk fashion genre i’d recommend you to check out these designers :

1.32 Dawn

2.Yvmin

3.Lalune

4.Dominnico

5.Yimeng Yu

In 2022, the cyberpunk fashion becomes one of the most prominent style genre in K-pop through music videos from groups such as EXO, Aespa and The Boyz adopting the concept aesthetic into their albums.

Every year the line between technology and fashion becomes blurrier, the combination of both seems to be the future the fashion world is heading. The cyberpunk fashion encapsulates the style aesthetic of a futuristic world way ahead of its time.