Sneaking in another Japanese fashion portrait that is mainly casual-clothes but somehow chic in the right way.

And Kiritani Kenta is handsome. Which is what I’m sure we’re all really here for, anyhow.

The Sartorialist strikes again, a blow for the grandeur of middle-age suits everywhere.
Seriously, is there anything that could be better in this? They’re pouring wine, but it’s lunch-time wine, a friendship drink, casual. And then their suits are so classic: shirt, vest, tie, coat. But they are not trying to be anything but suits. They are modern classics.
Man on the left uses a patterned shirt instead of white—with his more bohemian style of haircut the mix is lively, but given balance by a solid tie. The man on the right has a more business color scheme, also matching his hair, and the white shirt sets off his distinguished countenance, enlivened by a wilder pattern in the tie.
All this with the exact same form of suit style. I am in tears, like a good Italian, with wonder at how beautiful it is.
And apparently this is the way to wear a wide tie: knotted up high so it looks more like a cravat. Brilliant.
Because Kim Bum, that’s why.
But also…the design of this jacket is quite intricate, as you look at it. The black on gray pinstripe is balanced nicely—and used as a way to show off the layering of the different panels, play with their dimensions.
So clever. And clever about who they put it on, because I don’t think many guys could carry off something so quietly elaborate. Maybe Junsu of JYJ, he looks great in crossover avant-garde suits. I can picture this…
Meet Seo In-Gook—he sings, he acts, he’s pretty, and he makes smoking a cigar look good.
Believe me, that is something I’ve noticed few men of such green years can do.
I thought I recognized this face, but couldn’t place him because this is so outside the usual image for him. I really, really like it, though. He’s so pretty and talented, there’s an extra charge to seeing him channel a stereotypical playboy. All black outfit, even.
(Question: why is cut crystal glass only in these kind of debauchery shots? Because they are so pretty, they could hold so much more than alcohol.)

So the nerdy angle of it is more tongue-in-cheek than real. It’s cute, still. I think this is kind of demanded by the model—Ji Jin-Hee is too chiselled handsome and doesn’t look young enough to even be a scholar despite his handsome.

But he’s not too mature-looking to be fun to see acting up to the theme.

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It’s great how he looks his age, but also adorable.

Big buttons! On a baby trench coat. With little tabbed cuffs…
I’ll ‘fess to it. I have a really soft spot for kiddo clothes that are scale-miniatures of adult clothes, like when you get little boys in stone-washed cargo pants, or little girls in dressy jackets.
Also, this kiddo looks like that tiny terror in MBLAQ’s Hello Baby, am I wrong?
justinchungphotography:

Sofia @ NEXT Paris. 

I swear, someday I will post a “Follow Friday” post on a day that is actually Friday.
This week is not that day?
Justin Chung Photography is a gallery of portraits with a casual ambiance but a well-dressed aesthetic. Check it out!

Cameras and suits together—you know I can’t resist.

And he’s got a tea set kicking around. Kryptonite to this lady.

This is one of the few cases where I see the point (har) of these long shoes that to me scream European leather, tho’ I have no idea if the trend is the fault of the Continent or not. Certainly with the trendy cut of these trousers, they have a visual punch.

The lines of this suit are all sharp, which makes the cozy chaos of the set all that more intriguing…

This is more a lifestyle shot than a fashion portrait. Which is excellent. Any man using a good teaset as his illustrative foreground is a man of true style.
His shoes look both comfortable and classy, too, which is something I don’t see enough.
theimpossiblecool:

Vidal. 1925 - 2012
I like how this photograph includes the wine-telegraphs-class wineglass but instead of using the beauty of the clear liquid as a sort of obvious element of aesthetic, the focus point of the photograph is the black shirt.
Granted, it’s also another inexplicable “man fully dressed in a bathtab” shot. Which I kind of understand, but I got spoiled by the first I really paid attention to, and I am bored by it.
Not to say this photo doesn’t look kind of inexplicably hot.
Kind of odd background clutter makes this look like a snapshot, but if so—well, Jaejoong’s looking as good as ever, in a fashion-portrait sort of way.
Black tee under a thin dress jacket. Chic, not overdressed. And I love the slightly goofy expression, actually. I have a weakness for shoots where the models show true expressions, acting or just natural. This is maybe just the real version.
Sometimes I doubt the prettiness of that face, but this photo reveals that he also has pretty wrists. So okay, the petite beauty is at least natural. ;)
I love the way the theme of weightlessness is taken to such an extreme here. Tablo’s jump (which looks amazingly composed, like he is floating) matches lines with Mithra’s sneakers.
The thing I like even more than Tablo’s taste in dramatic flourish in clothing is the way it looks so natural on him.
I don’t know much about Epik High, just a couple of songs, but I am also stoked for their new album under YG which I will for sure be listening to when it drops.
lefthandedbluestocking:

classy gentlemen.
Another photo I have to include, not so much for the style, as the quality of the photograph. It has the story-in-motion quality of a still from a film—a really intriguing, fashionable film.
All the matching blacks that highlight the set, the models, the ambiance more than anything.
…Can I find this place, and go write my next novel there?
impsychotic:

Daisuke Ueda and Wang Xiao by Takahiro Ogawa for West East Magazine S/S 12
I don’t know, I just think this is great. Posed but laid back. Attractive but not glam.

fuckyeahsuspenders:

DirkGreyson
Oh-ho. So this is what became of that rough-diamond smoldering in My Tutor Friend! I looked him up after watching that but somehow it didn’t register that he was the protagonist of the recent film “Pain”.
That is, that foxy ajussi who hurt himself trying to fall like a man who feels no pain: there were pictures on DramaBeans. …maybe I just didn’t register that I thought he was cool.
I hope his comeback means more roles—dramas or comedy films. Apparently he lost a lot of his career when he married, and that’s just a shame. Look at him drink that water!
Okay, the tiny check jacket is being well-pulled off, too. And I’m not sure many could do it. (Tiny check? Usually not awesome in big quantities.)
Opaque  by  andbamnan