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Showing posts with label Fashion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fashion. Show all posts

Wednesday, 17 April 2013

YOU are the reason for their actions !!!



How is it fair that people are fine with American idols wearing artistic clothing and not K-pop idols ? DISCRIMINATION !!! People who judge them obviously know nothing ~ about Korean fashion. Ok I know you’re rolling your eyes at me after seeing those photos but don’t forget those people are idols and they don’t pick their own clothes they want to wear. How would you feel if someone told you that its time to dye your hair blue or wear hot pink see through net shirts ? The K-pop industry has been trying so hard to appeal to the western market. What you see them wearing is just what they think attracts your attention. To prove my point I am going to be using the same idols as examples and no I didn’t photoshop them onto someone else’s body.

Here we have Super Junior without their rainbow clothing which might I add the colours WAS a concept for their album and it was a very deep and meaningful one too. Wow right ? W.O.W. I know they don’t look particularly fashionable or anything, but that’s the message I am trying to get across. Idols prefer simple style and this is what they would wear to a fan meet or some other event where they get to pick their own clothes. Simple is the best and idol K-pop idols like the though that it’s the person that is bring out the beauty of the clothes, not the other way around. Of cause using this example I’m not trying to prove that K-pop idols are fashionistas, I’m just saying their style isn’t crazy and wild. Females tend to get away more with wearing bold clothing and we tell by 2NE1’s photo that its not really what you would call natural. I know, you guys are gonna say ‘but you just said K-pop fashion is natural. You’re contradicting yourself’. Hear me out first, this is actually a photo teaser for one of their albums and the reason why I picked this image was to also prove that not ALL bold fashion in their music promotions have to look mismatched and messed up. Yes this is bold but this is also another one of those times when they don’t get to dress themselves the way they want. I must say though, either their stylist changed or they got real ~ lucky.

Since I said album fashion was directed to overseas fans, I’m going to show you the fashion directed at their own Korean market. Here are the same two people which someone told you had been getting inspirations off Katy Perry. Without the blue hair and glasses he had to wear for their MV promotion, you gotta admit that’s a very attractive human over there *insert high pitch fangirl sqeals*. Normal hair colour, softly styled and a plain green trench coat. Yep, that’s what would be considered attractive over there. Again, without the need to appeal to overseas markets, women prefer a natural dolly look. You know, all that loose fitting white shirts and pale princess skin with flowers in her hair. Congratulations Seohyun, you’re finally back in your princess dolly style. As much as I personally would look horrible in it, it looks beautiful on you and please keep it that way.  

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Even Lady GaGa will weep



Sometimes, enough is enough. Ever since Lady GaGa first showed off her fashion style, it seems that everyone is getting more and more tolerant to such extreme means of fashion. K-pop, might be really pushing it too far. Now I get that people sometimes have this artistic edge to fashion but while it may be acceptable to see it on a catwalk, sometimes layering 23 pieces of rainbow coloured clothing over yourself is not the most attractive thing to do.


‘Oops ~ looks like someone’s unicorn vomited over them’ That was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw Super Junior’s teaser photos for their new album. Oh who am I kidding, that’s still the sentence I think of NOW after years ! I don’t even know where to start analysing the ... ‘things’ they have on their bodies because everything is just so messed up. On a side note, abs are great and all but maybe flaunting them out like that is a little too ... well, you know. But to be fair I’m looking at that semi see through pink thing another member is wearing and ... not wearing a shirt is not such a bad thing after all. If you’re gonna flaunt it, flaunt what mother nature gave you and not what your stylist threw at your face. Now, I wonder since when do people make dresses out of giant rubber keyboards or stick unicorns on their dress. If we ask the girl band 2NE1 maybe they can give us some answers since they seem to know all about it. Yes, that unicorn is part of her dress. Maybe it’s the same unicorn who vomited on Super Junior ! Guys, time to change the stylists. Fire them and kick them out of Korea, who know, maybe they will meet Lady GaGa and they will end up as best buds.

Its hard being a celebrity and I get it. Maybe the concept of their new albums was ‘How to look like a fashion terrorist and scare people away from K-pop’; If that’s the case then I’ll give them a pat on the back cause they did a wonderful job. So if the album concept was decided then you gotta follow it, fair enough. Please tell me then why is it that even if the members are not doing group activities do they look like ... that !?! I mean really TOP, blue hair ? And oh wow a fuchsia pink jacket with errr bad ass patters and ... umm ... Ok fine, its not that bad since you look hot and you probably will pull it off. Plus I’m on your side here, you probably didn’t even know what you had on due to those ridiculous glasses. Seohyun, you are such a princess looking person but what happened ? So during the photoshoot did someone yell ‘She looks too normal. Lets super glue a doll on her shoulder and add on yellow eyeshadow. Which glove is better I wonder ... lets just make her wear both’ ? Now I think about it, blue and purple hair with dolls on your shoulders ... Ahh the mystery is solved; K-pop fashion isn’t based on GaGa its based on Katy Perry !

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