{"id":925995,"date":"2026-10-09T02:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925995\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T02:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:08:12","slug":"7-reasons-why-g-dragon-is-still-k-pops-ultimate-fashion-icon-20-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925995\/","title":{"rendered":"7 reasons why G-Dragon is still K-pop\u2019s ultimate fashion icon, 20 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His 2013\u00a0Crooked music video is perhaps the clearest snapshot of that approach. Across the video, he appeared in 16 distinct outfits, jumping from a Vivienne Westwood suit to punk tees, distressed skinny jeans, oversized fur coats, and wearing Chrome Hearts jewellery throughout.<\/p>\n<p>G-Dragon also embraced gender-fluid fashion before it entered the mainstream. He wore pearl necklaces as naturally as silver chains, painted his nails, carried handbags and embraced delicate loafers, brooches and scarves \u2013 choices that many male celebrities would have avoided at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, he never presented these choices as a statement or a provocation; they were simply part of how he dressed. In doing so, G-Dragon was among the earliest Asian stars to show that masculinity and self-expression didn\u2019t need rigid boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>4. WHATEVER HE WEARS, PEOPLE WANT<\/p>\n<p>Nicknamed &#8220;Wanpannam&#8221; in Korea, which literally translates to \u201csold-out man\u201d, G-Dragon has a Midas touch that routinely turns anything he wears into massive commercial success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His 2013\u00a0Crooked music video is perhaps the clearest snapshot of that approach. Across the video, he appeared in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,21767,75,1187,10069,341,14924,18262],"class_list":["post-925995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chanel","tag-entertainment","tag-fashion","tag-k-pop","tag-music","tag-nike","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}