A Suit Distraction

Thanks to lefthandedbluestocking, I’ve been reminded of an amazing 2010 Vogue Korea shoot. When I first came across it I didn’t have the nerve to post it here. Now I’ve decided to include sharp traditional dress, from time to time.

So I can.

The dusty hues of all the colors, the mix of textiles, there is so much to love in this hanbok pictorial. The hair is ascetic, but not actually that modern. I think it’s just that bit piquing to have the model’s toenails polished, in that second to last image.

Totally adorable ajussi shoot. I love when the menswear of the middle-aged isn’t about glamour (though you know I can fall for those, too) but takes on a character-actor edge. Funny how character actors are good at this…

Also, maybe the best outfit to include shorts I’ve seen yet this spring. C’mon, lads, you’ve got time to one-up the man, but do take notes from how unserious they are.

dramadebussie:

Kim Soo Hyun in Paris for Marie Claire

The clothes here aren’t all as pretty as his past shoot there. But my stars the boy is pleasing to mine eyes.

And really, that last image is worth all the rest. Handsome bag, handsome face, unexceptional clothes in service to a pair of amazing (if not handsome) shoes.

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The post on this I found on DramaBeans some of the commenters were decrying the sandals. Maybe it’s just that after a year they feel less weird? I’ve certainly adjusted more to the Roman-style sandals girls are wearing, and these are not odd as those.

I’m also just so ready for lighter clothes, even while the weather here dips between totally temperate and close to freezing all over again…

I’m ready to forgive his cropped white pants, if he just pairs them with sandals rather than loafers or something even more dressy.

carbongrey:

슈프림팀(Supreme Team)

Simon, why do you look so cute in this? That curly mop is probably why, but there’s also something muting the usual blatant swag he’s got going on.

Also, shortness.

Like the fun patterns, here mixed up by being focused in opposite areas on the two models. It has a funky balance, just like the wild prints in tamed black-on-white.

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Find a translation of the accompanying interview from this Elle feature here

I am getting a crush on Epik High as a group as much as on Tablo as an artist—there’s something awesome about their energy even though they’re becoming mature men. There’s actually something fascinating to me about the way hiphop groups seem to be the best aging artists with crossover to k-pop.

But it’s not a kind of maturing, here, that makes them less handsome, or less stylish. Kind of the opposite, actually…while they don’t necessarily look at home in the baseball jackets with bright varsity spryness, they do look fantastic in black leather variants.

cadeandco:

Ascot Chang, Crockett & Jones, Drake’s, Sorley,  WW Chan. 

Follow Friday on a Sunday! awww yiiiiisss.

I just was checking out that previous post from today, and went to the mentioned blog, ethandesu. If you like to see your menswear unobstructed and profiled for it’s own sake, it’s a very schnazzy number of a blog.

Check it out!

(also the model here has a lovely hair color. just so you notice.)

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alexiig:

Lee Jong Suk  for CECI Magazine [March 2013]

Ceci is a magazine I always see their photos, and then see the source and think “Of course”. There’s something youthfully bizarre about their sensibility. And yet, the photos do have a sort of nice portrait quality, even if the model is dressed up and surrounded by meaningless props.

Love his star-sleeved jacket on the bottom left there.

But no, I still don’t get the carpet slippers shoe thing… this is not the first time I’ve seen it.

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