Finally
I managed to get my hands on a copy of L'Officiel Hommes Korea from April 2013.
To be honest the main reason why I wanted this magazine was that one of my
favorite groups was featuring in one of the editorials and as expected I was curious about
the concept.
Since
I was young I had a fixation over fashion from the 80s and 90’s, or to be more specific fashion
from TV shows of early 90s like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air or Saved by the
Bell and singers like New Kids on the Block (specially from their late 80’s era) so I must admit I nearly died once I checked the whole
photo-shoot Teen Top made, I’m aware many people would hate the hairstyles and
even the clothes, but for me such shapes, prints and ambience take me directly
to the period I’ve always dreamed living in –in a very platonic way of course-.
I
might be wrong with the references that inspired this fashion spread but when I
look at it closely it has a late 80s feeling very ‘New Kids on the Block’ style
in the music video for ‘I’ll be loving you forever’ combined with a troublesome
guy of the 90’s –sorry this is completely random but I was thinking maybe
Gangsta's Paradise would be the perfect soundtrack-
Anyhow,
thumbs to the stylist of L’Officiel, the pictures came out pretty nice -and now
I’ve officially founded the Korean Stylists' Fan club- their work is outstanding;
it’s always a pleasure to have a look at Korean magazines, the pictures are never disappointing! usually presenting striking concepts with fresh fashion, cool sets
and overall amazing visuals. Once you’ve laid your eyes on the photoshoots
Korean fashion magazines have you will never ever find again pleasure on checking
the plain and overused concepts editorials in western magazines tend to display.
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| Scans from L'Officiel Homme Korea 'Boys on Top' April 2013 |
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| Teen Top Official Facebook |
