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Drama styling tips #4: Bad Guy

Amy — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:00:54 +0000

I’m all about the styling of Han Ga-in’s Moon Jae-in in this one.

The guys are standard suits and chaebol-wear, and everyone looks sharp, but it’s nothing to write home about. Moon Jae-in, on the other hand, I love. I’m not that interested in how the Hong family daughters are dressed because it looks like typical expensive-women wear, and that bores me.

The one winning thing about a good majority of Jae-in’s outfits is that her shoes give her rather girly get-ups a sharper, harder edge. She almost always wear badass biker boots, either with stacked heels or no heels at all. Everything else about her outfits are extremely girly — pastel blouses, slouchy button-downs — but once you look down at her shoes, the feeling completely changes.

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Post tags: Bad Guy/나쁜남자, Korean dramas, styling

Stella McCartney Fall 2010

Amy — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:00:08 +0000

I love the look and design of this!

(via fashiongonerogue)

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I love, I want!

Amy — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:32:18 +0000

♡ at first sight:

UCS x Quoddy Trail moccasin deck boots

I’m a huge fan of the moccasin/boat shoe hybrid and these look so comfortable, sleek, and durable. Oh the outfits I’d pair this with…

Men’s shoes, yes, but that hasn’t stopped me before :D

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Drama styling tips #3: Moon Lovers

Amy — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:14:31 +0000

So, uh, the last two episodes of “Moon Lovers” have been really painful watch, so instead of doing that I’ll spam you with the styling, with an emphasis on the guys. (I tend to care more about how men are styled than women, eh?)

Japanese fashion is totally different than Korean fashion. There’s more stress on function and practicality over appearance. Things like how lightweight and durable a piece is is really important to Japanese design. Texture is also super important, and you can see that in the variety of materials used for the suit jackets that Kimura Takuya’s character wears.

Most of these are going to be regarding Rensuke’s (Kimura) style, because he’s the protagonist, and let’s face it, he’s the most interesting anyway. Ren is the president of a relatively large company, so the standard president-work-uniform is there — blazer, pressed pants, button-down — but what I really love about how he’s styled in this drama in particular is that the uniform is mixed in with a laissez faire feel, noticeable in things like throwing in a t-shirt, matching suits with non-preppy shoes, etc.

THE UNIFORM

Let’s start with the full-body shots.

Kimura Takuya is not really a model by any standards. He’s on the short side and just doesn’t have the build of a model, which is why the tailoring on his suits have to be precise, or else he’ll drown in them or look too stumpy. That’s remedied by the his tendency (his stylist’s?) to leave things unbuttoned and not tucked in as to not box him in.

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Post tags: Japanese dramas, Kimura Takuya, Moon Lovers/Tsuki no Koibito/月の恋人, styling

Formspring.me #3, model for me

Amy — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:56:08 +0000

Someone on formspring asked me,

Do you have a favorite male model?

Can’t narrow it down to one. Two faves:

Mathias Lauridsen

Boyd Holbrook

And one guilty pleasure fave:

Noah Mills

Guilty pleasure because….I’m not really sure if he’s a good model. I usually look at other things when I see him:

If any of you watched Sex and the City 2, you know what I mean. Yes. Um.

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Post tags: Boyd Holbrook, Mathias Lauridsen, models

Louis Vuitton FW 2010 ads

Amy — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:17:46 +0000

Best Louis Vuitton ads I’ve seen in a while:

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Formspring.me #1, beauty things

Amy — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:08:49 +0000

Someone asked me on formspring:

whats your skin care/make up routine?what products do you use?

I’m not usually a big skincare or makeup person, because my policy has always been, if you live right and eat right, it’s better to keep those things to a minimum lest you develop a dependency for them at a young age. But in the last couple of months I’ve started being a more frequent user of both. I’m pretty big on eyeshadow though, my one weakness :(

On the days I use shadow, I stick to MAC’s Relaxing, Naked Lunch, All That Glitters, and Smashbox’s Smokebox. MAC’s Relaxing is my favorite eyeshadow of all time but I found out that it’s a limited edition color and I haven’t been able to find a similar shadow from MAC or other labels :(

Also a fan of blush. I’ve got a golden complexion, so peachy stuff works best for me. Pictured above are NARS’ Orgasm and MAC’s Apripeach. On days I just want a little color, I use Bare Mineral’s’ Golden Gate.

I went through a phase in high school where I bought a lot of makeup but never used it because I just didn’t know how to. Now I’m slowing buying one or two pieces at a time and actually contemplating when I will use it to maximize the product’s effectiveness. Currently into buying lip stuff. Above L to R: Fresh’s Sugar tinted lip balm, NARs’ Falbala, and Benefit’s Flirt Alert.

Fail safe lip stuff. I like the Burt Bee’s and Ecolips balms because they’re minty. Nivea’s balm is really saturated with color. It actually could work fine as a lipstick.

Stuff I bought today: NARS bronzer in Laguna, Bare Minerals’ powder, powder/bronzer brush, brush cleanser.

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Drama styling tips #2: Cinderella’s Sister

Amy — Sun, 30 May 2010 02:14:46 +0000

This drama definitely doesn’t have the same variety as Personal Taste in terms of styling, but it also doesn’t rely on youth and city chicness to tell a story about the characters’ lives, which I feel Personal Taste did.

The best dressed character is easily Chun Jung-myung’s Ki-hoon. There’s also a difference in styling as reflected by the characters’ ages — the younger Ki-hoon was more colorful, and the older is more somber. The younger versions of the two female leads were students, so there was nothing special going on. As adults, Hyo-sun is made to be the more stylish one, whereas Eun-jo is the more practical one.

I know that styling and visuals are supposed to complement a show, but as a viewer of this drama, my mind was only on one thing: the story and its characters’ interactions with each other, so while the styling is never bad, the quality of the story definitely takes precedent here.

Let’s start!

COLLARS with CONTRAST and DETAIL

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Post tags: Cinderella's Sister/신데렐라 언니, Korean dramas, styling

À Une Passante Paris Shanghai

Amy — Sat, 15 May 2010 03:54:57 +0000

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Drama styling tips #1: Personal Taste

Amy — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:53:06 +0000

Or, AKA, your one-way guide to dress like a metrosexual man.

There’s some great styling going on in “Personal Taste.” It’s not too flashy and I love that there are so many classic outfits. I’m a sucker for boys and girls in preppy gear. Lee Min-ho looked outrageous and ridiculous in “Boys Over Flowers” but in “Personal Taste” he actually looks age-appropriate. The dude has the body of a model and it was completely wasted in BOF. Plus, it’s not like I don’t already want to bone him every time he’s in a scene, but now he looks good too.

With Son Yeh-jin, I get that they’re trying to make Gae-in “quirky” by throwing random things together but those let’s-mix-patterns-with-colors-with-ugly-shoes-with-ridic-pants outfits are uninteresting to me. I know that the people behind the show made her look more “presentable” after the audience complained she looked too sloppy (giving her a straighter haircut, making her look less sloppy at home, etc), but Gae-in’s best outfits are usually the ones she wears to job interviews, lol.

Let’s start, shall we?

THE BLAZER with interesting detail

THE CLASSIC CARDIGAN

THE BLAZER with THE CARDIGAN

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Post tags: Korean dramas, Lee Minho, Personal Taste/개인의 취향, styling