Idol Of K-pop
K-pop သီခ်င္းေတြနဲ႔ ကကြက္ေတြကို ႀကိဳက္ႀကိဳက္ မႀကိဳက္ၾကိဳက္ သူတို႔ရဲ႕ Music Video ေတြထဲက အဝတ္အစားေတြက အရမ္း style က်တယ္ ဆိုတာကိုေတာ့ ျငင္းလို႔မရပါဘူး။ K-pop group ေတြက MV ေတြထဲမွာသာမက စင္ေပၚမွာလည္း နာမည္ႀကီး ဒီဇိုင္နာ Brand ေတြျဖစ္တဲ့ Balmain လို Branded အဝတ္အစားေတြ အျမဲဝတ္ေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။ ဒါေတြက အေနာက္ကေန Stylist ေတြက ေရြးေပးထားတာျဖစ္ၿပီး သူတို႔ရဲ႕ off duty အဝတ္အစားေတြကအစ ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ စီစဥ္ၿပီးဝတ္စားၾကတာပါ။ ဒါေပမယ့္ အဲ့ဒီ့ထဲမွာ တစ္ေယာက္ကေတာ့ သူ႔ရဲ႕ ထူးထူးျခားျခား on duty နဲ႔ off duty ေၾကာင့္ အမ်ားထဲမွာ တမူကြဲထြက္ ေနပါတယ္။
G-Dragon (နာမည္အရင္း Kwon Ji Yong) ကေတာ့ နာမည္အရမ္းႀကီးတဲ့ K-pop အဖြဲ႔ Big Bang ရဲ႕ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ပါ။ သူ႔ရဲ႕ အျမဲေျပာင္းလဲေနတဲ့ style ေတြေၾကာင့္ Korea မွာသာမက ႏိုင္ငံတကာရဲ႕ Fashion မဂၢဇင္းေတြနဲ႔ website ေတြမွာအျမဲ ေဖာ္ျပခံေနရသူပါ။ Kanye West ကသူ႔ရဲ႕ ပရိသတ္တစ္ဦး ျဖစ္ၿပီး Karl Lagerfeld ကေတာ့ Chanel Fashion ပြဲေတြမွာ သူ႔ကို Chanel အဝတ္ေတြဆင္ၿပီး အေ႐ွ႕ဆံုးတန္းမွာ ေနရာေပးထားပါတယ္။ G-Dragon က style မိုက္သူတစ္ေယာက္တင္မဟုတ္ပဲ အႏုပညာပိုင္းမွာ ထူးခြၽန္သူလည္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ သူေရးထားတဲ့ သီခ်င္းေၾကာင့္ သူအဖြဲ႔က K-pop မွာနာမည္ရလာတာပါ။ သူ႔အဖြဲ႔ရဲ႕ ေအာင္ျမင္မႈ ႏွစ္ၾကာ႐ွည္ေစတဲ့ သီခ်င္းေတြရဲ႕ စာသားနဲ႔ production အပိုင္းေတြမွာ အမ်ားဆံုး ပါဝင္လုပ္ေဆာင္တဲ့သူလည္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ သူ႔ အဖြဲ႔ Big Bang ကေတာ့ K-pop ရဲ႕ Fashion ပိုင္းေျပာင္းလဲမႈမွာ ပါဝင္ဦးေဆာင္ခဲ့တဲ့ အဖြဲ႔ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
Big Bang မေပၚခင္တုန္းက K-pop အဆိုေတာ္ေတြရဲ႕ ဝတ္စံု တကယ့္ ပြဲအတြက္ ရည္ရြယ္ျပီးခ်ဳပ္ထားတဲ့ ဝတ္စံုေတြပါ။ Stylist ေတြက နာမည္ႀကီး ဒီဇိုင္နာေတြရဲ႕ အဝတ္ေတြကို ကူးခ်ၿပီ စင္ေပၚအတြက္ခ်ဳပ္ၾကတာ။ Big Bang ကေတာ့ ဒီဇိုင္နာေတြရဲ႕ collection ထဲက အဝတ္ေတြကို ဝတ္ၾကတယ္။” Raked.com မွာေဖာ္ျပထားပါတယ္။ ဒီလိုေၾကာင့္ K-pop ပရိသတ္ေတြက သူတို႔ႀကိဳက္တဲ့ အႏုပညာ႐ွင္ေတြဝတ္တာကို လိုက္ဝယ္ဝတ္လို႔ရၿပီး K-pop အဆိုေတာ္ေတြက Fashion Brand ေတြအတြက္ အရမ္းအေရးပါလာပါတယ္။
G-Dragon ရဲ႕ Style က ဆန္းျပားၿပီး သူက ေယာက်ာ္းဆန္ဆန္ေရာ မိန္းမဆန္တဲ့ ဝတ္စံုေတြကိုပါ သူနဲ႔ ကိုက္ညီေအာင ္ဝတ္တတ္ပါတယ္။ သူက Chanel ရဲ႕ မိန္းမ tweed jacket ကို သူ႔ရဲ႕ တျခားအဝတ္ေတြနဲ႔ အက္စပ္ေအာင္ဝတ္ခဲ့ဖူးပါတယ္။ ဆံပင္ပံုလည္း အျမဲေျပာင္းၿပီး အျဖဴေရာင္ဆံပင္ဖါးလ်ားလည္း ထားဖူးပါတယ္။ သူ႔ရဲ႕ ဝတ္စံုတစ္ခ်ိဳ႕က လူေတြရဲ႕ အေျပာခံရတာရွိေပမယ့္ သူကေတာ့ ‘အခုေခတ္မွာက Self –Confidence မ်ားတာနဲ႔ ႐ွက္ဖို႔ေကာင္းတယ္ဆိုၿပီး ေဝဖန္မွာကို ေၾကာက္တဲ့စိတ္ေတြနဲ႔က စည္းမ်ဥ္းသိပ္ မရွိေတာ့ပါဘူး’ လို႔ Dazed Magazine ကို ေျပာျပပါတယ္။
I –D Magazine ကသူ႔ကို Korea Style ဆိုတာ ဘယ္လိုသတ္မွတ္လည္းဆိုေတာ့ G- Dragon က “ငယ္ငယ္တုန္းက ဂ်ပန္ ရဲ႕ Fashion ၊ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈနဲ႔ ေနပံုထိုင္ပံုကို အရမ္းစိတ္ဝင္စားခဲ့တယ္။ ၿပီးေတာ့ တ႐ုတ္ကားေတြလည္း အရမ္းႀကိဳက္တယ္။ အေမရိကားနဲ႔ ဥေရာပႏိုင္ငံေတြကိုလည္း စိတ္ဝင္စားတယ္။ ကိုရီးယား လူမ်ိဳးေတြက အရမ္းအတတ္ျမန္တယ္။ အေရးႀကီးတာက အျမဲတမ္းသင္ယူေနရမယ္။ အဲ့ဒီ့လို မဟုတ္ရင္ ကူးခ်တာပဲ ျဖစ္ေနလိမ့္မယ္။ အႏုပညာ႐ွင္တစ္ေယာက္ျဖစ္ခ်င္ရင္ ကိုယ့္ရဲ႕ ကိုယ္ပိုင္ဖန္တီးရမယ္။ Korean Style ဆိုတာကေတာ့ အျမဲတမ္း ျမန္ေနတာပါ။ အရင္တုန္းက ဥေရာပက ဂ်ပန္ကို အရမ္းစိတ္ဝင္စားၾကတယ္။ အခုကေတာ့ ကိုရီးယားကို ဂ႐ုစိုက္လာၾကတယ္။ ကိုရီးယားရဲ႕ ပံုသ႑ာန္ကို မဟုတ္ဘူး သူ႔ရဲ႕အားထုတ္မွဳကို ေလးစားၾကတာ။ ကိုရီးယာရဲ႕အားထုတ္မွဳကေတာ့ အျမဲႀကိဳးစားေနတဲ့ စိတ္ဓာတ္ပါ။ အခုဆိုရင္ ကိုရီးယားက ေအာင္ျမင္မႈနဲ႔ လူေတြ သတိထားမိတာကို ရရွိေနပါၿပီ။ ဒါေပမယ့္ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔က ထပ္လိုခ်င္တယ္။ကြၽန္ေတာ္ေရာ ကိုရီးယားလူမ်ိဳးအားလံုးကေရာ အျမဲပဲ ပိုလိုခ်င္ေနတယ္။ ျမန္ျမန္ေအာင္ျမင္ခ်င္ေနတယ္။ ဂီတပိုင္း၊ fashion ပိုင္းနဲ႔ အႏုပညာပိုင္းေတြ အားလံုးမွာပါ။ ကြၽန္ေတာ့္ရဲ႕စိတ္ဓာတ္ကေတာ့ တစ္ခါပစ္ရင္ ပစ္မွတ္ ခ်က္ခ်င္းထိခ်င္တာပဲ။”လို႔ေျဖခဲ့ပါတယ္။
အခုလက္ရွိမွာေတာ့ G-Dragon က စစ္မႈထမ္းေနၿပီး ၂၀၁၉ ႏိုဝင္ဘာမွာ တာဝန္ၿပီးမွာပါ။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ သူရဲ႕ music video အဆန္းအျပားေတြနဲ႔ Fashion Week ေတြမွာ ဝတ္စားထားပံုေတြကို အားလံုးက သတိရေနၾကမွာပါ။
(English Version)
You may not enjoy K-pop songs or their dance moves but you cannot deny that their music videos are usually over the top with the most stylish clothes. These k-pop groups are always decked in the latest luxury fashion clothes like Balmain for their mvs or stage performances. They are indeed styled by the team behind the artists and even their off-duty outfits are carefully curated. However, one stood out with his unique and fearless style on and off work.
G-Dragon,whose real name is Kwon Ji Yong, is the leader of a landmark K-pop group, Big Bang. His constant reinvention of his image has made him a regular at many fashion magazines and websites not only in Korea but internationally. Kanye West is a fan of him and so is Karl Lagerfeld who always makes sure G-Dragon get the front row seat to Chanel Show and Chanel outfits to wear. This is not to say he is only stylish but also a talented artist in his own right. It was his self-composed solo song that propelled his relatively unknown band to stardom. He is also very heavily involved in his group’s materials and credited for writing and producing many of their songs in their long career. His band is also influential in changing fashion for K-pop.
According to Raked.com, “Before Big Bang, K-pop artists’ costumes were literally costumes, Stylists’ job was to kind of copy the lines of famous designers and recreate them into stage outfits. Big Bang’s more natural style featured “outfits freshly out from a designer’s collection.” This means that K-pop fans can buy the same clothes as their idols and it make the K-pop stars influential for fashion brands.
G-Dragon’s style can be described as experimental and androgynous, perfectly fusing femininity and masculinity in his outfits. He has worn Chanel tweed women’s jackets perfectly to pair up with the rest of his look. His ever changing hairstyles involved long, platinum blondes lock. Some of his styles have raised many eyebrows but in his interview with Dazed Magazine, he said that” There’s a phenomenon of the line and conflict between self-confidence and embarrassment narrowing.”
In his interview with I-D Magazine, his answer to what is Korean style was ‘When I was young, I was fascinated by Japanese culture, style, and the way of life. I loved Chinese movies too. What I’m trying to say is that we used to learn from different Asian countries. Even from America and Europe. And trust me: Korean people learn so fast. The most important thing is to keep learning, otherwise you’re just copying. So if you want to be an artist, just make things your own. Basically, Korean style is about moving fast. Europe was once fascinated by Japan, but today a lot of eyes are on Korea. It’s not about minimalism or aesthetic anymore, it’s the Korean energy we admire. To the question of where the energy was from, he said “You know what, it’s because we have a hungry mind. We already have the fame and recognition but we still want more and more. We are still hungry. Korean people, including me, want to go faster and faster. In music, in fashion, in art too. One shot one kill: that’s my mentality.”
G-Dragon is currently serving his mandatory military service which will end in November 2019. In the meantime, his eccentric music videos and the exciting outfits he would wear during Fashion Weeks will be truly missed.
