Faculty

Profile

Yoon Chang is a part time instructor in the BFA Fashion Design program at Parsons the New School for Design since 2012. She holds a BFA degree from Parsons and also studied abroad at Parsons in Paris and Winchester School of Art in England. Yoon is passionate about helping students develop their individual design perspective through highly personal investigative techniques and methodologies.Upon graduation, Yoon worked at Cynthia Steffe for 13 years with 6 of those with the title of Design Director; overseeing a staff designing and developing the style, image, tone and story of each season from sketches to fabrication. In 2007 she launched her own contemporary women’s wear label Whistle & Flute with Je-Won Hwang. During the 5 years she ran Whistle & Flute she was awarded Winner of the GENART International Design Vision award for Women's Ready to Wear; she was a Finalist of the Fashion Group International Rising Star Women's Ready to Wear award and was a Finalist of the prestigious Samsung Fashion & Design Fund Award. Her work has been featured in Womens Wear Daily, Nylon, Nylon Korea, T Magazine (NYTimes), Elle, Lucky, Harper's Bazaar Korea and online fashion and news publications. Aside from teaching at Parsons and Pratt Institute, Yoon continues to be an advocate for young people and art and is on the governing board of Foster Pride, an organization that mentors children and teens in the foster care system through art.

Degrees Held

BFA

Professional Affiliation

Board member of Foster Pride

Recent Publications

Books:

Rothman, Julia. Goren, Leah. Cole, Rachael. Ladies Drawing Night. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2016.  *Chapter: Kidding Around pp: 144-155 (Guest drawing participant)

Hwang/CYJO, Cindy. KYOPO. Brooklyn, NY: Umbrage Editions, 2011

*One of over 200 people in this photographic project about immigration and Korean identity.

Magazines (editorials and designer features):

Kwok, Sae-Bom. “Korean Power 101.”  Harper’s Bazaar Korea Jan. 2010: (pages not numerated).

“101 Ideas.” Marie-Claire Jan. 2010: 32

Kim, Su-Jin. “Potential Designers.” Nylon Korea Oct. 2008: (pages not numerated).

“Resident talent.” Lucky Magazine May 2008: 264.

Nevitt, Naomi. “Fashion News.” Nylon Sept. 2007: 94.

Research Interests

Fashion Design, textiles, illustration, sculpture, sustainability

Awards And Honors

WHISTLE & FLUTE Winner of the GENART International Design Vision award for Women’s Ready to Wear, New York City, 12/2009

WHISTLE & FLUTE Finalist of the Samsung Fashion & Design Fund Award, Seoul, Korea 08/2009

WHISTLE & FLUTE Finalist of the Fashion Group International Rising Star Women’s Ready-To-Wear Award, New York City,  01/2009

WHISTLE & FLUTE Selected to present with 5 other chosen designers during New York Spring ’08 fashion week with Gen Art’s Fresh Faces, New York City, 09/2007