About fashion film «One of a Kind» by busurmanka LeniE'🔺® / LeniE’ Ibrahimova
There is a folk belief, that dragons live in seas and rivers. Because waters always move, and this movement is called – 미리내(Korean lngch - MIRINAE) - «Dragon flow», that is a symbol of a powerful flow of nature, life, destinies and can hardly be resisted. And after dragons die they enheaven, and even more, they get absorbed by the star Milky Way – 미리내 (MIRINAE)
Locations, clothes, decorations and visual effects display sacral signs from Korean and Crimean Tatar myths and legends.
To deeper sink into the atmosphere of the film and to express the main idea of this story, we are going to give information from the sources of inspiration.
There is a close link between Korean legends and myths and fairy tales. And stories of fairy tales can hardly be separated from the real history of the country. There are many stories about primal forefathers in the Korean folklore, founders of such ancient Korean states as Choson, Koryo and Silla. Mythical beings show up as either semi-historical – semi-legendary governors or Korean heroes. The most important position in archaic myths about state founders is occupied by the myth about Tangun, the founder of the ancient Choson.
The main hero of the film «One of a kind» is a kind of personification of Tangun in Korean mythology, as well as a son born by faithful and unfaithful djinns from Crimean Tatar legend “Altin Beshyk”( from crimean lngch: golden cradle), and founder of the Crimean Khanaate.
Most archaic Korean myths say that the hero’s Devine Source is in the sky, but his birth place is almost always located in the spread of the Earth. The hero has often been born in some cave or a crevice in North myths, and in a trunk in South ones. Heroes come from eggs by breaking them (the weight of such an egg in “Sumhuk saga” is about 9 kg).
Crimean Tatar symbolism, fairy tales and legends show that the Gods live on a mountain in the the center of the world, where the Earth axis is. This is one of the stable mythological motives. Let’s talk about the cave symbol: the bright story of the legend is the cave where forefathers are born. The cave associates with a metra, Womb of the Earth. According to the legend, the forefather was born in the womb of the cave, was conceived as a result of water and clay (mule) mergence and came to life in 9 months influenced by the sun warmth. Combining myths resulted in an ancient Turkic cult of the forefathers’ cave where the forefathers of Turks were born and came out of to settle.
The main hero of the film is born in “the cave”, as if breaking the egg shell. Thus the main analogy of forefathers’ and state founders’ birth in two cultures – Crimean Tatar and Korean – is presented.
Next in the film comes the lake where according to the Korean legend Yongvan, the king of dragons lives (he lives everywhere in water). We can see how the dragon and the main hero are connected through the sacral meaning “the lake eye” (Yongvan’s eye) and the eye of the main hero.
Yongvan is the first and the main dragon. According to the legend when he flies up a new emperor is born. Five brothers-dragons of different colors came after Iovan in the country, they reigned underwater kingdoms: the green dragon (Chkhonyong) – the guard of the East and Spring, the red dragon (Chonyong) and the yellow one (Khvanyong) – the guards of the North and two Summer phases (actually summer and the end of summer), white (Penyong) – the guard of the West and Autumn and black (Khinyong) – North and Winter. Gods team these five dragons and float in the sky as well as by water.
These five dragons are depicted on the clothes of the main hero in the final part.
Karadag dragon is a Crimean mythological being living in the Black Sea. It has not got wings like Korean dragons have. Other mythological beings that can be met in the Crimea are Seljuk dragons on the arc over the North gates of the Khan palace. Two intertwined dragons with the Sun symbol in the middle used to symbolize the unity of the extremes and world harmony, as well as identified the guarding symbol, saving people from demons, epidemics, enemies’ attacks and other misfortunes.
Seljuk dragons are also depicted on the clothes of the main hero.
To summarize the analogy between two cultures – the Korean and the Crimean Tatar – we can say that both cultures had dragons as the symbol of peoples’ protection and the symbol of the governor.
The hero passes through life challenges and transfers in time and space. The film shows his changes.
Set in nowadays.
Locations: the cave > the lake > the forest > the building under construction > the fashion studio.
The building the hero walks along is a symbol of the history and modern times connection.
Mythological story intertwists with another hero’s actions. He is not seen, but he is the picture of the Maker of the main hero’s destiny, which can be seen in his actions.
The story ends with a flashback and the logo brand that conveys sacral meanings through the color, form and letterings.
The Unity of two cultures – the Korean and the Crimean Tatar – is reflected in the clothes collection under the same name. As there has never been such a successful symbiosis of two cultures in the history of fashion industry.

About fashion designer and producer of a fashion film «One of a kind».
Lenie’ Ibrahimova – Crimean Tatar fashion designer in Ukraine. The founder of Ev LeniE’ (LLC) company and brands: busurmanka LeniE' 🔺®, busurmanka🔺® – shoes and accessories, 01.10.1987 🔺® – prints and jewellery. The brands represent a new ethno-pop style. Ethno means using historical heritage and its interpreting in the modern clothes, and pop is not just some popular music, but a life and fashion style as well.
The designer aims to achieve symbiosis of the Crimean Tatar and Korean cultures, popular music – K-Pop, films and serials – K-Drama. When developing a new fashion collection for men busurmanka LeniE'🔺® Crimean Tatar and Korean national clothes and ornaments, historical events, myths and legends motives are being used and implemented in fashion clothes trends for 2018 and 2019. When learning Korean history, mythology and culture, LeniE’ has found a lot of common between two at first sight different nations. It turned out that Crimean Tatars and Koreans are very similar in their mentality and traditions, and have very common history and nature.
Th debut and premiere of the first fashion film " ONE OF A KIND" took place at La Jolla International Fashion Film Festival and The Cannes Of The Fashion Film Awards in July 2018, California, USA, in 2 nominations: "BEST ART DIRECTING" and " BEST EDITING".

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