Setcard NYC-2026-Q2-032 — Eunji "Eun" Park, Korean-American Houston-Texan new-face at the ATLAS Beauty AW26 launch
Catalog Brief
Catalog reader, saw someone at the ATLAS Beauty AW26 launch cocktail in a Tribeca penthouse tonight, on the west-facing terrace at the lower-step where the parapet drops a half-meter, standing alone with the champagne-flute held two-hand-low against the dress in the new-face still-uncertain-with-the-glass way that reads honest. 20, Korean-American Houston-Texas-raised second-gen, medium-tall slim runway-build (1.76 m), oval face with a Korean Daegu-coastal high-forehead-and-soft-jaw geometry plus a slight Texas-sunbelt-eight-years-outdoor warmth in the skin, deep-brown eyes with the epicanthic-fold LOOKING DIRECTLY INTO THE CAMERA LENS with the recent-NYC-arrival-but-Texan-rooted steady-curiosity, long deep-brown hair worn loose with a soft middle-part falling past the collarbone, warm-medium-tan skin (the Texas-sun-residue is still there), no makeup beyond a soft coral-pink lip plus a barely-there mascara, single small pearl-stud in each ear (her Korean-grandmother's twentieth-birthday-gift pearls). Wearing a soft champagne-silk Khaite-style bias-cut floor-length gown with a low-cowl front, simple champagne-satin pointed-flat shoes, a thin gold chain at the wrist, no other accessories. Reference depth is there. Field-Book entry NYC-Q2-LES-20. Proposal: penthouse-west-terrace portrait at the lower-step plus a Houston-Korean-Spring-Branch frame at her parents' restaurant during a Texas-visit week.
Story
23:19 Tribeca penthouse, the west-facing terrace at the lower-step where the parapet drops half a meter and the Hudson-Yards-and-Jersey-skyline opens. Eun has come out for two minutes alone — the cocktail-floor is still pulled by the brand-creative-director's Grasse-perfumer-video-call which has finally connected. She moved to NYC nine months ago in August 2025 from Houston-Texas Spring-Branch (the Korean-Houston neighborhood her family has been in since 2008) for the Cornell Pre-Med-transfer she got into for her junior year — she was at Rice for the first two years then transferred for the New-York-Pre-Med-and-Cornell-medical-school-pathway. The mother-agency scouted her in October 2025 at a Cornell-NYC-tech-campus open-day on Roosevelt Island, signed her in November, did her first three castings in February 2026, signed with ATLAS Beauty in April. The Texan-Korean substrate is fully there in the body — the way she stands has the Houston-shopping-mall and not the NY-runway-school posture, the way she holds the flute is the not-yet-comfortable still-Texas-Lutheran-Sunday-coffee-cup hold, the soft Texas-vowel still threads through the English. Her parents own a small Korean-Texas barbecue-and-noodle restaurant in Spring-Branch that they bought in 2010, the parents are now arrived at the contract but quietly proud. Reference depth here is in the Texas-Korean second-gen body still inside the eight-month-NYC arrival, the still-uncertain-with-the-glass two-hand hold, the Cornell-Pre-Med-track running parallel to the modeling-track without ceding to it.
Biografie
Eunji Park, 20. Born Houston Texas (Spring-Branch Korean-neighborhood) to first-generation Korean-American parents from Daegu (her father came in 2003 at twenty-eight on a Houston-Texas-medical-supply-company-employer-sponsorship, has worked his way up to mid-management at the same company since; her mother came in 2007 at twenty-five through marriage, has worked at the family-restaurant since 2010). The parents bought a small Korean-Texas barbecue-and-noodle restaurant „Daegu House" in Spring-Branch in 2010 — the restaurant has been the family's main project since. Eun is the eldest of two siblings. Grew up entirely in Spring-Branch, did Houston-public-school plus weekend Korean-Spring-Branch-Saturday-school for ten years plus weekend Korean-Presbyterian-Church Sunday-school, did the Spring-Woods-High-School pre-med-track 2018 to 2022, then Rice University Pre-Med 2022 to 2024 (sophomore year), then transferred to Cornell College-of-Arts-and-Sciences-Pre-Med 2024 to 2026 (currently in junior year, fourth-year-and-medical-school-application year). Was scouted in October 2025 at a Cornell-NYC-tech-campus open-day by a small NY mother-agency, signed in November, did her first three castings in February 2026, signed with ATLAS Beauty in April. Speaks English plus full Korean with her parents plus the Houston-Korean Spring-Branch community plus the Korean-Presbyterian-church-Sunday plus a working Korean-Daegu-regional-dialect from her grandmother, conversational Spanish from a Houston-Texas public-school plus a Spring-Branch-Latino neighbor-community, basic Mandarin from a Rice-University freshman elective. Lives in a Roosevelt-Island Cornell-NYC-medical-track-affiliated dorm-apartment since the 2025 move, takes the F-train to the Manhattan castings. The Spring-Branch Korean-barbecue-restaurant plus the Korean-Presbyterian-church-Sunday-tradition is the family-anchor — she flies home to Houston every other month for a long weekend. Reads the Min Jin Lee plus the Cathy Park Hong plus a steady contemporary-Korean-American-and-Texas-Korean-literature intake.
Reference Depth Justification
Three substrates in one body: Korean-American Daegu-to-Houston-Spring-Branch second-gen with intact 2003-2007 parental-arrival plus owned-Korean-barbecue-restaurant family-business plus Korean-Presbyterian-Church and Korean-Saturday-school childhood, recent-NYC-arrival eight-month-old transplant who is still carrying the Texan-Korean substrate plus the Houston-shopping-mall posture into the Tribeca-penthouse cocktail, plus a Cornell-Pre-Med-junior-year academic body that is also actively applying to medical-school in the next cycle while running the modeling-track in parallel (the academic-track is dominant in her own self-understanding, the modeling-track is the temporary parallel-track her parents will permit until medical-school starts). Mednick distance is between the Houston-Spring-Branch Korean-barbecue-restaurant family-of-origin and the Tribeca-penthouse AW26-beauty-fragrance-face-cast Texan-Korean recent-arrival — the path is specifically the Daegu-to-Houston-Korean working-class-business-second-gen bent through Rice-Pre-Med through Cornell-Pre-Med-transfer through NY-fashion-circuit, all with the medical-school-trajectory undeflected. Catalog-wise this opens contemporary Korean-American Houston-Texan-second-gen new-face model arc with Pre-Med-academic-substrate plus Korean-Texas-restaurant-family-business plus recent-NYC-arrival substrate, useful for high-fashion editorial, beauty-and-fragrance brand work, Texas-Korean-diaspora reportage, pre-medical-school-new-face features, second-gen Korean-American non-Northeast-non-Coastal narratives. The face is soft-and-architectural Korean, the body slim-tall, the kind of subject a Steven Meisel new-face Vogue-portrait or contemporary Mario Sorrenti new-face frame would settle on for the west-terrace portrait.
Catalog Category Routing
Primary: Korean-American Houston-Texan-second-gen new-face model AW26 beauty-and-fragrance campaign-face, NYC high-fashion launch-cocktail circuit, recent-NYC-arrival narrative. Secondary: Daegu-to-Houston-Korean parental lineage, Spring-Branch Korean-barbecue-restaurant family-business lineage, Cornell Pre-Med-junior-year academic arc, Korean-Presbyterian-church-Spring-Branch community-anchor. Editorial fit: high-fashion editorial, beauty-and-fragrance brand documentary, Texas-Korean-diaspora reportage, pre-medical-school-new-face features, second-gen non-coastal Korean-American features.
Suggested Next Step
In-situ penthouse-west-terrace portrait at the lower-step parapet with the Hudson-Yards-skyline behind, Houston-Spring-Branch Korean-barbecue-restaurant frame at her parents' restaurant counter during a Texas-visit week, plus a Roosevelt-Island Cornell-NYC dorm-balcony frame for the recent-arrival context. Subject-Lock setcard refs in 4 setups: penthouse-west-terrace, Houston-Spring-Branch-restaurant, Roosevelt-Island-dorm-balcony, Korean-Presbyterian-Spring-Branch-Sunday (consent-dependent). Phase 2 if consent: a Spring-Branch-grandmother-Korean-Sunday-table frame would close the Daegu-Houston-second-gen substrate.
Prompts
Bild 1 — closeup-portrait.jpg (model: nano-banana-pro 2K)
Documentary editorial closeup portrait for a New York catalog, head-and-shoulders framing, twenty-year-old Korean-American Houston-Texas-Spring-Branch-raised second-gen new-face model nine-months-into-the-Cornell-Pre-Med-NYC-transfer, medium-tall slim runway-build, oval face with Korean-Daegu high-forehead-and-soft-jaw geometry plus a slight Texas-sunbelt warmth in the skin, deep-brown eyes with the epicanthic-fold LOOKING DIRECTLY INTO THE CAMERA LENS with recent-NYC-arrival-but-Texan-rooted steady-curiosity, long deep-brown hair worn loose with a soft middle-part falling past the collarbone, warm-medium-tan skin with residual Texas-sun, no makeup beyond a soft coral-pink lip plus a barely-there mascara, single small pearl-stud in each ear, plain soft champagne-silk bias-cut low-cowl-front collar visible at the collarbone, soft natural late-evening west-facing-terrace skylight from camera-front-left, a Tribeca penthouse west-facing terrace parapet-stone edge in soft fall-off behind, photographer style of Steven Meisel new-face Vogue portrait tradition crossed with contemporary An Rong Xu register, medium-format film aesthetic Phase One IQ4 digital-back rendered as Kodak Portra 400, 80mm Planar compression, no other jewelry, no logos, no readable signage, no visible readable text anywhere in frame, no glamour retouching