Korean slang profile
환경패션
hwangyeongpaesyeon
Fashion made from recycled materials
Clothes or accessories made from recycled materials.
- Expanded form
- 환경 + fashionenvironment + fashion
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- 2007
- Documented trend period
- Not verified
This is the earliest source we have verified, not the date the term was coined.
01Examples, with English translations
- Example by Julimmal
폐현수막으로 만든 가방이 환경패션 전시에 나왔다.
Bags made from discarded banners appeared in the 환경패션 exhibition.
02Documented history
- 2007The National Institute of Korean Language’s weekly new-word survey material introduced the spelling and meaning of “환경패션”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The name links the value of the environment to fashion using waste as material. This explanation was checked in the National Institute of Korean Language’s 2007 weekly new-word survey material. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The explanation and components in the body of the weekly material were directly compared. The original older articles re-quoted there and first use were not separately verified, and the date was recorded only to the precision of the verified source’s publication year.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 신어 조사 결과 (2007년 12월 5주) (국립국어원·국회도서관 보존본)Published 2007Original source checked Nov 14, 2026