While idols must always appear as perfect as possible thanks to the carefully chosen
outfits or elaborate designs, there are still times their stylists miserably failed their
one and only job just for the thought that the visuals of idols would save whatever they
throw on them.
As a result, these following idols became the miserable victims of that thought:
Red Velvet
Almost like a tradition of Red Velvet’s coordies, they had to make the girls look
questionable at least once in every era and at this point, certainly both fans and netizens
are no longer surprised because they have seen multiple times how the stunningly beautiful
visual of the girls still couldn’t even save the look.
The latest appearance of Red Velvet at Allobank Festival in Indonesia is also no exception
because as netizens said, while they were extremely thrilled to see the girls perform
live for the very first time since the pandemic hit, they were also extremely disappointed
to see the outfits Red Velvet’s stylists threw on them.
Apparently they didn’t look as terrible as the furry, eye-itching costumes of the
Zimzalabim era but still, it’s hard to deny how the coordies made them look like they
had just jumped onto the time machine and traveled here from 2000.
Probably out of the effort to catch up with the Veri Peri purple trend of 2022 and the
wish to add in something new with the refreshing yellow of Summer, the coordies had come up
with the idea for Red Velvet’s outfits that day.
However, netizens said they failed miserably because these two colors looked totally irrelevant
to each other and combining them with the forms of the girls’ outfits, the big picture
looked even worse as they totally failed to compliment the body shapes of each member.
For example, though there were countless times fans complained about how Red Velvet’s stylists
couldn’t choose the suitable outfits for Yeri, which ended up getting her embroiled
in lots of criticism for not looking good enough as an idol of SM Entertainment, nothing
was improved this time since despite her narrow hips and broad shoulders, they still dressed
her in mid-waisted jeans and probably the most tawdry crop-top on Earth.
What’s even more depressing about her outfit was that Yeri was not only made to wear the
most annoying fit in terms of colors but also the most boring costume in terms of forms
and styles.
While other members were all dressed in something extra-enough for the limelight, only Yeri
was made to wear the basic combo: crop-top and blue jeans, making her look like she’s
about to have a grocery shopping at the market rather than going on stage and performing.
The costumes of Joy and Wendy were less annoying than Yeri’s but that didn’t necessarily
mean they were good enough to justify the visuals of the girls as according to fans,
their costumes both looked unbearably peasant, outdated and cheap.
Based on the way the fabric moved when the girls danced, some even claimed their dresses
were for sure brought in the flea market at the last minute as they were too thin and
the patterns were too rustic.
It was even more depressing for fans when they found out that there was one yellow dress
back in 2000 that looked literally the same as Joy’s dress, further confirming how questionable
and outdated the fashion taste of Red Velvet’s stylists was.
Maybe out of the effort to make Seulgi the center, the coordies decided to dress only
her in purple, aka the trendiest color of 2022, but netizens just found this decision
hilarious because she looked totally irrelevant to the group.
Plus, the way the ruffles of her top moved also ticked people off as they only made her
dance messy rather than adding some flattering and glory effects to the choreography.
Still, the most disappointing outfit according to netizens was that of Irene because despite
being extremely familiar with many of her sophisticated and well-tailored outfits, they
just couldn’t swallow the fact that she was dressed like a kid performing at her kindergarten.
Some said that when zooming into the fits, they were even more triggered because when
looking from afar, they found her yellow head bow pop up in a ridiculous way and in close
distance, the combo of a cheap lace cropped jacket, a bowy crop-top that was on-trend
way back in 2021, a childish colorful skirt and a big irrelevant belt had truly made their
eyes sore.
Basically, while people all admitted Red Velvet slayed the stage with their impeccable aura,
groovy dances and the power-house vocal, their outfits were a mere disaster.
KEP1ER
A little bit more fortunate than Red Velvet, not all members of KEP1ER have to suffer from
the questionable fashion sense of their stylist but overall, netizens still couldn’t wrap
their heads around the way the girls were dressed for their very first appearance on
VOGUE in June.
Of course it’s still hard to deny that the coordies did a fairly good job when styling
Yujin, Hikaru and Dayeon but besides them, people couldn’t comprehend a single thing
from the others’ outfits and the way they are presented as a group.
This was seen most clearly in the group photo where all KEP1ER’s members were outfitted
in costumes having a heavy vibe of the 2000s era.
As they pointed out, the 2000s styling is always a hard theme because modern elements
are always required to be here and there to ensure the look has a “new” factor to
the “retro” vibe, making the costumes nostalgic enough but not too dated.
However, based on the way each member’s outfit strongly clashed with one another,
people believed KEP1ER’s stylists were just trying too hard to produce something out of
their hand while their capabilities were rather limited.
That inevitably led to the result that most of the girls looked super peasant and especially
for Bahiyyih, though she was only 17 years old here, most people would look at her and
think that she was a thirty lady suddenly forced to stand in the same photo with KEP1ER’s
members, or worse, an ill Victorian boy.
Her eye makeup was so terrible that she looked as if suffering from countless sleepless nights
waiting to be on the magazine of VOGUE and while all other members were dressed in neutral
colors, she was made to be the only one that wore the country red checkerboard shirt dress,
the item that was widely chosen by old Western ladies and the pattern that was often seen
on cowboy’s shirts.
That was not to mention how the makeup of other members was also done in a dated and
amateur way because their smokey eyes look more like being beaten, and their contouring
makes them look haggard as if they have been starved for a week, especially for Hikaru.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, the coordies even made Chaehyun wear a full orange silk
pijama to appear on a FASHION magazine as if the set was something stylists, and the
most ridiculous thing was how when Dayeon was put into the center of this kinda high
fashion photo, the outfit she was dressed in was a wool tank top with a huge strawberry
right in the middle.
In short, Kep1er's photoshoot for Vogue this time was considered a joke and received tons
of heavy criticism.
Most people claimed that the stylists are doing their job in a sloppy and careless way,
and asked Swing Entertainment not to let this ever happen again.
LE SSERAFIM’s Sakura
It isn’t an exaggeration at all to say that LE SSERAFIM is the most scandalous girl group
of K-Pop so far because ever since their debut, had the group not been caught up in copy-right
and bully scandals in the early stage, they would still have got embroiled in a huge criticism
where the members were said to be sexualized heavily through the way they, and especially
Sakura, were dressed.
While the photo teaser of LE SSERAFIM received tons of praises for emitting a strong dreamy
and fairy-tale mermaid vibe, fans were triggered right off the bat to see Sakura wear literally
no safety garments underneath her paper-thin skirt.
Of course her outfit looked good and completely suitable with the mermaid theme but it was
still unacceptable for the coordies to make her wear a literal bikini top, a nude undergarment
just to cover what should be covered and a completely see-through skirt.
Considering how LE SSERAFIM was being caught up in a huge controversy where people said
the group was built for “ahjussi” and was set to sell sensual fantasies, K-netizens
expressed even more disappointment when seeing Sakura in an outfit like that.
However, there are many fans who believe that Sakura's outfit isn’t that sensual or extra
because first, it fits the mermaid concept and second, Sakura is over 18 years old, so
it’s not a big deal if she wears something seductive and people should stop caring too
much about how a girl dress.
Anyway, some also think that the staff should’ve helped Sakura cover up with a towel during
the interview.
So, do you think the stylists actually did these groups dirty or they were simply trying
their best to bring out a newer side of the girls?