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G-DRAGON

 

G-Dragon is known as the one of the world's best performer due to his sense of creatviity in all aspects, however his main focus is Fashion. G-Dragon was part of a band known as "Big Bang" which was present in 2006 and was known as the most "fashionable" (Wikipedia 2014) however once the band spllit, all members became individual artists. G-Dragon was created as a stage name for his actual name "Kwon Ji Yong" (wikipedia, 2014). He is sponsered by the YG family. His performances and fashion trends are known world wide from his world tour "Coup D'Etat" in 2012. 

 

 G-Dragon's fashion role became a trend to South Korea which led him to receiving awards like the "Style Icon of 2008" and the  "Most Influential Men of 2008"  which was sponsored by Arena magazine. He became present in The south Koresan "Vogue" for two seasons, "Elle" in 2013  and the Style Icon. G-dragon s the first solo singer to win the award undivided (Wikipedia, 2014. HoweverG-dragon's fashion trends are not the only reconisable asoect of creativity he expresses, he is also known for having "an ear for music and beats."

 

 

 

This image was on the front page of the South Korean magazine "Vogue". The simplicity in the fashion allows the ther items to show stronger such as the accessories (pipe) and the bright blonde hair making it a catergory of which artists canexpress creativity

 

 

 

 

 

 

VOGUE

"Don't analyse brands and styles other people wear, rather than that,  analyse yourself." -G-dragon.

 

G-DRAGON (ONE OF A KIND)

One of G-dragon's well known songs for creative performances was known as "One of A Kind" which was published in August 14th 2012". It  was nominated as "best fashion performance" and "Song of the Year" (YG, 2013).

 

The song became popular due to the way G-Dragon expressed his creativity through differnet fashion themes throughout the music video which included a variety of bold colors and loud hair. The music video also became well known due to the apperance of an ex member form Big Bang known as Taeyang. 

 

The song then released into an album whiich became the highest selling solo artist in South Korea with  over 252,728 copies. 

G-DRAGON  X TAEYANG (GOOD BOY

Another one of G-Dragon's well known song was actually a duo which was published recently on November 14th 2014.  It was orginally known as "Good Boy" by GD and Taeyang. The music video became the first "major" hip hop and RNB project by the YG family. It also featured in the YouTube Music Moments by the YouTube Music Awards 2015. The music video managed to recieve more than 3 million views in less that 24 hours.Iviews. "Many reviewers and artists compared Good Boy  to CL's "MTBD" and DJ Snake and Lil Jon's "Turn Down for What". (Wikipedia, 2014).

It becam the number one single on 12 different musical chart and reached the 18th postion on the ITunes Hip and RND chart. 

 

Both artists express their creatvity in indivudual and unique ways however, both are mainly focused on the fashion and hairstyles. From GD we can see the braided hair with the bold colored beads and Taeyang's neon white hair. The fashion of the music video makes many statements due to the loud and bling like accessories. The fashion theme also changes in different scenes for example "The computer scene" has a differnt and unique fashion trend, the "neon scene" also included simple fashion however due to the neon lighting, it allows the colors to pop out making a way of expressing creativity.

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