2NE1 leader and solo artist CL (Chaerin Lee) once again graced the pages of fashion magazine W Korea, and she gave a sneak peek of the exquisite spread on Instagram.
CL uploaded a photo taken from the goth-inspired shoot where she is wearing a black netted veil, a black lace dress and a necklace of layered pearls. But what made the look so captivating was her eye makeup in black and rose colors, which contrasted with her long gray hair.
Fan reactions to the preview photo were mostly positive, with many praising CL's beauty.
"You look like a lady," "What a beautiful smile," "So pretty," said online commenters upon seeing the W Korea photo.
CL and the rest of 2NE1 reunited on stage as a foursome last weekend at the MAMA 2015, but YG Entertainment has clarified that there are so far no plans for a group comeback.
While the group continues its extended break, CL has been concentrating on her solo career. On Dec. 7, she released "Hello Bitches" through Korean music sites following the single's release in the U.S. last month for free via SoundCloud.
"Hello Bitches," has gained positive feedback not only from fans but also from other international artists, such as Justin Bieber "this is dope" with his 71 million Twitter followers after seeing the track's hard-hitting dance performance video
Group CNBLUE's member Lee Jong Hyun poked some fun at Girlfriend's Yuju in the recent airing of KBS2's "Our Neighborhood Arts And Sports" on November 10.
On this week's episode, the martial arts team went on their third competition.
But prior to the competition, the members spent some time to play against female guests. The coach advised the team that in order to run away from an offender, a confident walk is important.
To show a demonstration, Yuju and Lee were chosen. Lee acted out as an offender while Yuju tried to walk confidently as she was advised to do. But Lee seemed shocked at her walk.
"It wasn't that she seemed confident that I stopped but because her walk is weird," said Lee, bringing laughter to the studio.
Singer-actor Rain (Jung Ji Hoon) has set up a dual strategy with CREATE and another agency known as "H" Entertainment.
With his exclusive two-year contract with CUBE Entertainment coming to an end, the Hallyu star initially announced plans to start his own one-man agency, CREATE, in order to facilitate his future projects in the entertainment industry. Soon after, conflicting reports stated that Rain had signed a contract with H Entertainment, leaving many fans scratching their heads.
On Oct. 3, however, a representative for the K-pop singer-turned-Hollywood star clarified Rain's plans post-CUBE.
The star will set up his one-man agency CREATE as planned, but that company will exclusively serve his interests in the music industry. H Entertainment, on the other hand, will focus on boosting his acting career, but in South Korea and abroad.
Rain's one-man agency, will be handled by his longtime manager, who has been working alongside the singer since his early days at JYP Entertainment in 2002. He will be in charge of handling all of Rain's music promotions and performance related activities.
Alternatively, the CEO of H Entertainment has reportedly managed many Korean actors and will work with Rain to secure television and movie projects.
Many fans are supporting Rain and wishes him good luck.
"Rain! My best wishes to you! I honestly think RAIN will be a success," wrote Vatashi, in the comments section of an article on Allkpop about the plans.
"Too smart, I wish you much success in all aspects of his life," wrote Suflitta.
At the moment, Rain is appearing in the Chinese drama Diamond Lover where he plays the CEO of a large diamond company. The drama also stars Chinese actress Tiffany Tang.
Suzy and Lee Minho have once again been swept up in breakup rumors that were soon proven to be false!
After checking with both sides, both Suzy and Lee Minho's agency have respectively revealed that the two are actually still dating!
On the 22nd, an insider at a major broadcasting company said, "Lee Minho and Suzy have broken up. They have both decided to continue their relationship solely as colleagues."
The company began to continue with the details saying "due to their busy, conflicting schedules, the two were unable to meet and slowly drifted apart."
Suzy and Lee Minho's sides reached out to comment with the following: "Since their relationship is personal between them, we are currently contacting the agency to verify the details."
Their breakup was hinted at last month during JTBC's program "Ssulzeon," where the host praised Dispatch for knowing the "truth" behind the two superstar's relationship.
The two started dating in March earlier this year.
Lee Minho has been extremely busy since the beginning of this month filming his new movie "Bounty Hunters". He has also been busy filming advertisements and with his overseas schedule.
Suzy has also been very busy with her role in the movie "The Hymn", which is schedule to be released in early 2016. She also has another role in "Uncontrollably Fond", which also comes out in 2016.
The news of their breakup comes not even a week after 2 other top stars, Girl's Generation's Taeyeon and EXO's Baekhyun ended their relationship.
Good luck to both Suzy and Lee Minho in the future!
Singer-actress IU (Lee Ji Eun) will hold a fan meeting to celebrate her seventh debut anniversary.
On Sept. 1, Loen Entertainment, revealed the news via Newsen of the 22-year-old star's fan meeting. IU also uploaded a photo along with message about the event on Instagram.
"Fan meeting in September! A more fun fan meeting than last year," wrote IU. She also noted that all the information regarding her upcoming fan meet will be posted on Loen's website.
IU's fan meeting will be held on Sept. 20 at the Ewha Womans University Samsung Hall.
Most recently, the popualr singer collaborated with Park Myeong Su for their 'Infinite Challenge' Music Festival single titled "Leon." The retro-inspired blues song was written and composed by IU.
Girl group EXID continues to prove themselves as top trending idols!
(Photo : Twitter)
On the August 19 broadcast of One Night of TV Entertainment, the program revealed the results of their research on which stars were the most searched celebrities for the first half of 2015.EXID came in first place on their search, beating out EXO, Girls' Generation, and Big Bang who took second, third, and sixth place respectively.
Korean MC, comedian, and radio host Kim Gu Ra ranked in fourth place and variety show star and comedian Yoo Jae Suk came in fifth place. A report by AllKpop revealed the full rankings.
According to the report, the keyword search "issue maker" came up as a related search to EXID and the two could be viewed synonymously.
One Night of TV Entertainment also revealed which stars had the most articles written on them based on their related searches for the first half of 2015. EXID ranked highest on this chart as well, with television personality Baek Jong Won, Yoo Jae Suk, After School, and Big Bang following after.
EXID sored to popularity after a fan shot video of member Hani went viral. The video successfully put the group's song "Up & Down" back on the charts after the end of their promotional period and transformed them into one of the most well-known girl groups today. With a history like this, it comes as little surprise to see EXID continue to dominate in the online world.
Hip-hop duo Leessang made a comeback yesterday after a three year hiatus with their digital single, “Kaleidoscope.”
The duo worked with female vocalist MI-WOO for this single.
“Leessang has produced and written all the songs for MI-WOO’s upcoming debut,” read a statement from Leessang Company posted Tuesday on the Korean news website OSEN. “She is the duo’s first artist that they are training to debut on their own.”
Their digital single features a mysterious and dreamy melody that accentuates Gary’s personal rap style and MI-WOO’s charismatic vocals. ADVERTISING
“With the start of this single as our first project, we will continue to release new music so please support us,” read a statement from Leessang Company on Tuesday as well.
For the first time since revealing to the public their romantic relationship,
entertainer Rain and actress Kim Tae Hee both attended the same public event for
a cosmetics company's anniversary celebration.
Rain, Kim Tae Hee
Chinese cosmetics brand JVJQ threw its 10-year anniversary party and Rain and
Kim Tae Hee, both models for the brand, according to The Korea Herald, stepped
out to the red carpet.
The two stars are notoriously private about their three-year relationship and
are constantly hounded by wedding rumors, which makes their appearance in the
same public event such a big deal.
The couple revealed they were dating back in January 2013.
Agencies for both stars said that while both Raid and Kim Tae Hee did appear
in the JVJQ event to fulfill their duties as brand models, they did not go there
together.
A separate report from the Korea Times said that Rain and Kim Tae Hee did not
even appear on stage at the same time due to scheduling.
Rain is reported to be preparing for a new album while Kim Tae Hee has been
cast in the SBS TV drama "Yong Pal" alongside Joo Won.
Rain's agency, CUBE Entertainment, has categorically denied rumors that the
couple have finalized their wedding plans and said the actor-singer himself has
admitted that "there hasn't been talk of marriage yet."
K-pop boy band CNBLUE member and actor Jung Yong Hwa has become a sensation
in China.
On June 11, Jung Yong Hwa made an appearance on a promotional video for iQIYI
Entertainment's 5th Anniversary Special. During the video, Jung Yong Hwa held
conversations and exchanged jokes in Chinese with China's most popular host He
Jiong and even sang a birthday song to celebrate iQIYI's anniversary.
Jung Yong Hwa became the first foreign artist to feature in iQIYI's
promotional video, and the video received more views than those that featured
China's top celebrities such as Fan Bingbing, Huang Xiaoming, and
Angelababy.
In April, Jung Young Hwa won the Foreign Artist and The Most Popular Foreign
Group awards at China's biggest music award ceremony Yin Yue Feng Yun Bang
(音乐风云榜), and he also became the first Korean artist to make an appearance on a
Chinese entertainment show Diors Man and became one of the most loved foreign
artists in China.
JYP Entertainment is dominating Korean music charts, creating a humorous
situation for girl group miss A.
The girl group, which made its comeback in March with "Only You," dominated
Korean music charts for nearly two weeks with their comeback song until Park Jin
Young's "Who's Your Mama" took over the number one spot. Park is the CEO of JYP
Entertainment, the company that miss A is signed with.
Suzy and Fei, members of miss A, took to Instagram to express mock anger
towards their CEO for beating them on Korean music charts.
The two members shared screen shots of music charts, showing Park Jin Young's
song featuring rapper Jessi "Who's Your Mama" in the number one spot, with miss
A's own song, "Only You," appearing in second.
Suzy used hashtags to express her faux anger and express her opinion by
saying, "CEO. Bad. Who's Your Mama. Jessi is great."
Fei used cute animal emoticons and commented in both Korean and her native
Chinese. "Ugh... This, this, do I cry? Do I laugh?"
She expressed the same sentiment in both languages on Instagram, and on
Twitter she asked Park to buy miss A food for beating them.
Park Jin Young, also known as JYP, responded to both Fei and Suzy, and also
apologized to miss A's Jia, who had shared the song on Twitter.
To Fei, JYP said, "Ah this... Well... Uhm... It'll go down again."
To Suzy, Park revealed that it was Suzy who had sent Jessi to JYP and he
thanked her for recommending Jessi to him.
To Jia, the CEO's message was very simple: "Jia thank you and um...
Sorry."
Paloma Faith says she has “messed up” the opportunity to sing the next James
Bond theme tune. Speaking at a march to mark International Women’s Day, she told
reporters that she was being punished for openly admitting she wanted the
gig.
“In the industry that I’m in, if you ask for something or you seem like you
want something you don’t get it,” she said. “You’re supposed to pretend that
you’re really cool as a cucumber and stuff just comes to you, but I’m not really
that type of person. But now I’ve messed it for myself because I’ve told
everyone that I would like to do it.”
The 33-year-old singer songwriter has made no secret in the past about her
dream to follow in the footsteps of Adele, Shirley Bassey and Tina Turner by
singing a Bond theme. Spectre, the latest movie in the 007 series, is due to
open worldwide on 6 November, although the artist performing the theme tune has
yet to be announced. Rumours suggest it could be Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran or Lana
Del Rey.
Faith also found time at the march to talk about her mother’s influence on
her feminist beliefs. She said: “My mum was a child of the 60s and was one of
the people who burned their bra and made a pact to herself never to be oppressed
by a man in her life, and so wasn’t. She has brought me up with those beliefs,
so this is way more important to her than anything.”
This is the actual point of the red carpet, when you think about it. The red
carpet is the only time we watch actors and actresses being themselves. It is
their moment to promote their personal brand: fun, kooky, clever, sweet,
whatever. The smart ones know that for the long-term longevity of this brand you
need people to like you, not just fancy you. Cate Blanchett is brilliant at
this. I’ve only ever seen Blanchett being a scary ice queen (Elizabeth, Blue
Jasmine) or a kids’ film scary ice queen (The Hobbit; The Lion, the Witch and
The Wardrobe) and, once, a madwoman called Lotte in a German play at the
Barbican I couldn’t make head or tail of. And yet she has my lifelong devotion,
primarily for the lavender and yellow Givenchy she wore at the 2011 Oscars, but
also for livening up every red carpet I’ve ever covered. See also: Claire Danes,
who has successfully softened and humanised an image dominated by her stressy
black trousersuit-clad on-screen character by joyous, colourful red carpet
choices, like the Tiffany-blue Prada dress she wore to the White House
correspondents’ dinner in 2013.
Hourglass shape ... Sandra Bullock in navy McQueen
at last year’s Oscars. Photograph: Jeff Vespa/WireImage
For impact, shape matters more than anything else
Corsetry is your friend. Boning is your friend. If your dress lets it all
hang out, you have to hold your tummy in. And nobody remembers to hold their
tummy in except when they are looking in the mirror, and especially not after
two glasses of champagne. This is not just about looking thin, it’s about
looking like you have a shape, because shape looks good in photographs. On
camera, a dress with a waist looks more dynamic and warm than a loose, blobby
shape, which is why every red carpet, ever, is dominated by hourglass shapes.
The masterclass: Sandra Bullock at last year’s Oscars in navy blue McQueen. Look
inside a really good red-carpet gown and you will find two corsets: an inner one
to squeeze you in, and then an outer one that keeps the dress in shape but is
fractionally larger than the inner one, so that the dress never looks too small.
I am not advocating two corsets in real life, but the takeaway here is that in
any situation where you will end up in photos where you want to look nice – from
your wedding, to being photographed at work – you will make life easier for
yourself if you wear something with a built-in shape. Offputting ... Nicole Kidman in high-neck
Balenciaga. Photograph: Steve Granitz/WireImage
High collars make you look a bit mean
The thought process behind wearing a high-necked evening dress is impeccable
– why should women bare their chests, making themselves exposed and vulnerable,
when – at least, since the tragic demise of boyband JLS – a man would never do
the same? And anyway, if you’ve been even remotely concentrating on fashion
recently, you’ll be aware that polonecks are quite the thing. But the brutal
fact is that high collars for evening are deeply offputting. Think of Nicole
Kidman in that Balenciaga dress with the raised turtleneck and the red bow at
the neck, at the 2007 Oscars. She looked terrifying! (The outsize bow that
looked like a mechanical key for a wind-up robot didn’t help.) This doesn’t mean
you have to go bare and strapless: both Helen Mirren and Judi Dench always show
some skin at the throat, but cover their arms and shoulders. Southern Belle ... Jennifer Lopez. Photograph:
Larry Busacca/Getty Images
Pretty-but-blah dresses don’t cut it except on pre-teen
bridesmaids
The most common red carpet mistake is to go soft and ruffly and drippy. That
lobotimised dolly look is my red carpet bugbear. Also, it is in my experience a
bad sign, career-wise. You can basically date the steepening downward trajectory
of Jennifer Lopez’s cultural relevance to when she wore a great Southern Belle
ballgown to the Met Ball. Can the word “fairytale” be applied to your dress?
Have you reached puberty? If the answer to both of these questions is yes, you
are in the wrong dress. Fabulous earrings ... Sienna Miller at the Golden
Globes. Photograph: Jeff Vespa/WireImage
It’s not just about the dress
The devil is indeed in the details. Like, use fake tan – not too much, but a
little – if you are pale. Yes, yes, I know Blanchett and Gwen Close look
incredible, but they are otherworldly goddesses. Normal humans always, always
look better a little bit tanned. (Felicity Jones, I’m talking to you!) Also, it
is impossible to overstate the importance of backcombing and Elnett. Sade was
basically the only woman who ever looked really good with flat hair. (Again:
goddess.) Also, there is almost no look that cannot be improved by a pair of
really fabulous earrings. (See: Sienna Miller at the Golden Globes.) Forever emerald ... Julianne Moore. Photograph:
Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
If it works for you, stick to it
Julianne Moore’s colouring looks fantastic in emerald green. Jennifer
Aniston’s shoulders look awesome in halternecks. Neither of them are afraid to
reprise a formula that works. There is a misguided narcissism at the heart of
the idea that you can’t wear a black jumpsuit to Lucy’s birthday party because
you wore one to Nina’s Christmas drinks. Your eveningwear wardrobe is unlikely
to be constantly on the mind of anyone else, however much they love you. There
are many issues to be negotiated when getting dressed, but boring other people
is an imaginary problem. Cape crusader ... Gwyneth Paltrow in Tom Ford gown
at the 2012 Oscars. Photograph: Dan MacMedan/WireImage
Timeless = good. Old-fashioned = bad
My all-time least-favourite red carpets to write about are the ones when I
feel like I’ve slipped through a snag in the time-space continuum and landed in
1961. Silver screen glamour is boring and wet and irrelevant if you don’t bring
it up to date. This is not about wearing trainers on the red carpet, it’s about
referencing modern style in an elegant way. My all-time favourite example of
this is the Tom Ford white caped gown that Gwyneth Paltrow wore to the Oscars in
2012. It looked like she was shoulder-robing the cape, which brought a
fabulously Wintour-esque front-row moment to the red carpet. See also: Cara
Delevingne in a little black dress with a diamond ear cuff. Poise ... Carey Mulligan. Photograph: Dimitrios
Kambouris/Getty Images
Your mum was right. Stand up straight!
Seriously, this drives me insane. Keira Knightley: fabulous, talented,
stylish, but sticks her head forward like a duck. The Duchess of Cambridge:
beautiful, enviable height, but ruins it with that round-shouldered slouch. At
the other extreme: pageant poses makes you look like an idiot. The
one-leg-forward pose jumped the shark with Angelina Jolie at the 2012 Oscars.
Reese Witherspoon’s beauty queen hand-on-hips posing, still in evidence at last
week’s Screen Actors’ Guild awards, is lagging badly behind her awesome
modern-Hollywood-feminist vibe. For tips, study Gwyneth Paltrow (simple,
graceful) and Carey Mulligan (as Paltrow, but with an Alexa Chung ankle-crossed
thing going on, for extra hipster points).
In a refreshing and, to put it mildly, super exciting move, Céline
has unveiled Joan Didion as the star of the brand's newest campaign.
Photographed by Juergen Teller, the spring 2015 ads highlight the
writer's irresistible, cool-girl appeal. Didion takes the reigns from
perennial It model Daria Webowy in a close-up shot against a strong
flash (a Teller tell-tale), wearing signature Céline sunnies, a simple
black dress, and a gilded pendant necklace—hair in a neat, gray bob.
Phoebe Philo creates for the thinking lady, the unfussy, impossibly
chic minimalist. For spring 2015, the designer—who has not merely a
following, but a flock of near-worshippers—took a trip back in time,
referencing the '60s and '70s, decades when Didion published some of her
seminal works like Slouching Towards Bethlehem and Play It As It Lays—the
years that solidified her as a deity to literary types who fell in love
with her in college and remained loyal into adulthood—and the years
before Didion's highly personal memoirs like The Year of Magical Thinking
launched her to the American masses. And so it all comes together,
right on time. Well done Phoebe Philo and Céline, we weren't sure how
you could get any cooler—and now we are.
