{"id":568968,"date":"2026-05-06T09:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568968\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:05:12","slug":"kim-ju-ae-what-kim-jong-uns-daughters-fashion-tells-us-about-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568968\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Ju Ae: What Kim Jong Un’s daughter’s fashion tells us about North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"

These incidents have highlighted how the Kim family – who are treated almost as god-like figures – are often exempt from rules that apply to the rest of society.<\/p>\n

“Although jeans are banned in North Korea as a Western fashion item, Kim Jong Un has appeared wearing them,” Prof Lee Woo-young, of the University of North Korean Studies, says.<\/p>\n

“No matter how much they ban foreign culture and even enact laws, North Korea is a place where there is nothing the supreme leader is unable to do.”<\/p>\n

Still, that has not stopped some North Koreans from wanting to keep up with the Kims and dress as sophisticatedly as Ju Ae.<\/p>\n

There have been reports , external<\/a>of an uptick in luxury goods such as Chanel cosmetics and perfumes circulating among wealthy North Koreans, while fur coats have become popular in a city bordering China.<\/p>\n

Photographs of children at a prestigious kindergarten wearing partially see-through blouses have surfaced. There are also reports of sunglasses and leather trenchcoats similar to those worn by Ju Ae and Kim Jong Un becoming popular among affluent young people.<\/p>\n

This is not unusual in North Korea – there have been reports in the past of young men sporting Kim Jong Un’s hairstyle. <\/p>\n

Ordinary North Koreans have very restricted access to information from the outside world including fashion trends, making the country’s leader an unlikely fashion icon. <\/p>\n

Now, his daughter appears to have become one too. <\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Hyunjung Kim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These incidents have highlighted how the Kim family – who are treated almost as god-like figures – are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-568968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}