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Brooklyn-based producer Yaeji has always found ways to modernize her mother’s style signatures. In last year’s music video for “Drink I’m Sippin On,” she added some 3M flair to her oversize blazer in honor of her mother’s penchant for boxy ’80s power suits, and she’s even described her sartorial leanings to Vogue as full-on “Korean mom style.”
The garments that she wears in her new music video for “One More” yet again find her taking inspiration from her fashionable mother, but it’s by no means “mom style” in the typical sense—not unless your mom, like Yaeji’s, wore lots of Issey Miyake when you were growing up.
In the video, which Alex Gvojic directed, Yaeji cycles through a range of colorful new and vintage Issey Miyake pieces pulled by her stylist, Vogue’s very own Monica Kim. “The whole video takes place at my hypothetical apartment, so when Monica and I discussed the looks for ‘One More,’ we thought of ‘casual’ and ‘comfy,’ but also what we aspire to look like at home,” Yaeji says of the visual, which finds five different versions of the artist feeding a pet fish, deejaying, hard at work in the kitchen, or peacefully asleep. “The Issey Miyake pieces are always a favorite of mine, especially because my mom wore it a lot and would pass them down to me,” she adds.
There are shots of Yaeji carefully doling out kimchi in a red crepe Issey top, a floral-studded Creepyyeha choker, and a black nylon Prada Sport skirt (Kim wrapped it sideways over a pair of vintage velvet Comme des Garçons shorts to fashion a makeshift apron), and two versions of a demure Issey pleated dress—one baby pink, the other black. Kim saw the green Issey watercolor tee, which features on the single’s album artwork as well, on New York City vintage store James Veloria’s Instagram story and immediately felt drawn to it. “I saw the top months before we even talked about the concept,” says Kim, “but I messaged them right away—I just knew I’d need it.”
By choosing these different Issey pieces, they were able to make each version of Yaeji look distinct yet still visually cohesive, while the harness embellishments add a touch of playful restraint to it all. “Creepyyeha’s harnesses were a perfect fit for accentuating silhouettes and symbolizing being trapped in a cycle,” says Yaeji. Watch as she manages to break through the monotonous patterns of her daily life until it turns into a full-on dance party—it’s a treasure trove of clothes that you’ll want to wear at home, too.