Seventeen’s Mingyu on His Private Type, Being a Dior Ambassador and That Calvin Klein Marketing campaign

It takes mere seconds of scrolling by way of Ok-Pop fan areas on-line to come across Seventeen‘s Mingyu.

The 27-year-old rapper, a member of hit Ok-Pop boy group Seventeen, is an internet favourite for his charming character and funky Instagram posts. Severely, social media account Pop Base has to presumably escape a dictionary each time he posts a photograph.

Seventeen is within the midst of the U.S. leg of their “Seventeen [Right Here] World Tour,” hitting 5 cities together with two stops in L.A. Earlier than heading out on the highway, Mingyu chatted with The Hollywood Reporter on Zoom, taking a break from his hectic rehearsals for the tour and the 13-member group’s newest EP, Spill The Feels.

“It’s presently 11:00 a.m. in Korea, and my whole physique is aching,” the rapper cheekily tells THR of the preparations for the album and tour. Mingyu explains the somewhat intricate schedule of getting ready for tour, releasing the album, performing the live performance in Seoul.

The tour wraps in L.A. this coming weekend, the place the group will carry out two sold-out exhibits at BMO Stadium. It’s an thrilling weekend for the group. Right now, Mingyu’s bandmate Joshua, an L.A. native, accepted a certificates of appreciation on behalf of Seventeen from the L.A. Metropolis Council. The group additionally has a significant pop-up deliberate within the metropolis for the tour’s finale.

Within the midst of an already booked and busy 12 months for Seventeen, Mingyu has dipped into the world of favor. Earlier this 12 months, he secured a model ambassadorship with luxurious vogue home Dior. In a social media submit asserting Mingyu’s new position, Dior referred to him as “the right embodiment of Dior’s aesthetic.” He additionally starred in a brand new Calvin Klein marketing campaign, showcasing his vary in a wide range of denim seems to be.

Under, Mingyu opens up about his personal private fashion onstage and offstage, his fashion inspirations and the way he feels about his viral Dior Paris Trend Week look.

How would you describe your fashion in the intervening time?

I’m a sportsperson. I like understanding, and I’m additionally an brisk individual, and my job is a singer who dances on stage, so I believe I are likely to go for informal outfits and cozy outfits.

How do you’re feeling about your onstage fashion versus your offstage fashion? As you mentioned, you’re a bit extra informal offstage, and onstage your fashion is, presumably, a bit extra exaggerated.

I believe it’s very tough to check my fashion onstage and offstage. Such as you mentioned onstage, clearly, you must be stuffed with glitz and glamour. Whereas, offstage, I are likely to go for kinds that don’t actually stick out and is unassuming [but] is uniquely me.

How do you’re feeling your fashion has developed over time?

To be sincere, I believe earlier in my profession, proper after we debuted, I believe I used to overdo issues as a result of I used to be actually keen to indicate myself and to indicate off what I had. I believe I used to be within the strategy of discovering who I used to be. Whereas, now, I’ve realized, I discovered that what matches me finest is issues which might be informal and pure. I’ve realized that outfits is usually a channel to precise myself, however it doesn’t equal me in and of itself. However, even now, there are days once I really feel like I need to attain for flashy, showy outfits.

You had what’s honest to name a viral second at Paris Trend Week at the start of this 12 months with the Dior present. Do you keep in mind what you had been feeling in that second? How had been you feeling after seeing that your look acquired such a very good response?

Trend week is a factor that I’ve all the time longed for and wished to be part of since I used to be very younger. I used to be greater than excited to be there with the Dior group, and I believe I loved each second. I had an excellent, enjoyable expertise, from the second I entered, till the second I left after the present was over. It was an honor as a result of I do know that it counts for a giant a part of Paris’ tradition. After studying that the video went viral and that I used to be coming underneath numerous consideration, I used to be a bit of shy and embarrassed. Nevertheless it was a really inspiring expertise as a result of watching the present and interested by what had been the artistic ideas and processes behind every of the outfits and how much significance every of the clothes carry was very inspiring. It was virtually like watching an exhibition, so I believe I want to say that each little a part of the expertise was very thrilling and galvanizing.

Congratulations on the ambassadorship. Why do you’re feeling Dior was the place for you in that house?

Dior has been considered one of my favourite manufacturers since ceaselessly with its informal, its easy, but pure, swish and glamorous vibe. In that method, that is one thing that the model Dior, and I’ve in widespread. Realistically talking, I believe the day that I went to the Dior ladies’s assortment… I imply, that second was not simply an inspiring second for me, however a very good start line for each of us.

What are you hoping comes from the ambassadorship? Do you have got one thing that you simply’re actually hoping to do when you’re an envoy for the model?

The primary factor that I’d love to do proper now’s to go to the boys’s assortment present. This time round, I went to the ladies’s assortment. I’ve achieved numerous picture shoots with Dior, and I made positive that I put on a Dior at essential events, however I haven’t been to a males’s assortment but. I haven’t met Kim Jones (artistic director of Dior Homme) in individual, so I’d love to fulfill him and discuss his artistic course of. That’s primary for me proper now.

It looks as if a ceremony of passage for celebrities to do a Calvin Klein marketing campaign. How had been you feeling while you discovered you had been going to do one? What had been you excited or nervous about going into it?

It’s very tough to say what precisely as a result of the entire thing was thrilling, and I felt nervous and enthusiastic about the entire thing. I believe that Calvin Klein is a model that everyone, no matter age, loves and enjoys. I do know what a robust presence the model has in entrance of most of the people, so I used to be actually nervous about whether or not I could possibly be the perfect match for the model, and whether or not I may embody the identification of the model correctly.

Do you have got a favourite second from both the shoot or after? Did anybody in your life react after they noticed the photographs?

After we had been doing the picture shoots… exhibiting some pores and skin was one thing that was very distinctive to me this time round. There have been numerous workers there on set from the worldwide Calvin Klein group, which was additionally a bit of nerve-racking, however thrilling. They had been very form and inspiring. I attempted to be cool-headed and take into consideration whether or not I actually was doing properly objectively. After we had been achieved with the picture shoot and the marketing campaign, it was a bit of unusual, however very thrilling to see it’s enjoying round, not simply on folks’s cell phones, however on billboards and all of the department shops all throughout the nation. It was a really, very rewarding expertise. I had a good time. However I haven’t seen the billboards or the advertisements in individual, however I’ve heard so much about it, so I’d wish to go see it in individual someday.

Do you have got somebody that conjures up you by way of vogue?

I believe I’m impressed by fashions who’re working abroad as a result of I wouldn’t name myself somebody who actually packs numerous character in my fashion. I’m additionally impressed by NBA basketball gamers, what they put on to the courtroom. I contemplate outfits as a bit of artwork, and I like imagining which outfits can be the only option at a elaborate dinner or once I go to the standard market as a result of I consider that there are outfits that may actually spotlight that second and add an additional layer of power in sure cut-off dates. I attempt to think about myself in several conditions relying on the outfit.

Do you have got something you’d wish to say to Carats [the name for the group’s fanbase] in the intervening time or simply as you’re preparing for this subsequent chapter?

We’re going to have fun our tenth anniversary quickly. We’ve got been dropping a brand new album yearly. We’ve been touring, occurring excursions so much as properly. So, simply going ahead, we simply need to hold being attentive to the smallest particulars in relation to our albums and promotions.

And to the followers, Carats, who’ve been sending us numerous love and assist, I simply need to say that we are going to strive our greatest to pay again all of the love and power by way of nice levels and performances.I simply need to see them and attain out to them as frequently and ceaselessly as attainable, so, even when we get to see one another for one hour, and I’ve to get on a 30-hour flight, I wouldn’t hesitate to try this as a result of I like them a lot.