Photo Credits: DAZED KOREA. SM Entertainment

There’s a certain charge that happens when fashion collides with persona—when a magazine spread becomes more than a constellation of garments and angles, but instead, the crystallization of aura. For DAZED KOREA’s September 2025 issue, rising star XngHan doesn’t just enter the frame—he consumes it, blurring the boundaries between performance and portraiture.

In this pictorial preview, we witness a deliberate coolness, a meticulously crafted moodboard come alive. The styling leans into contradictions—architectural tailoring meets fluid silhouettes, rigid monochromes destabilized by shocks of experimental textures. His posture is a language all its own: a quiet defiance, a refusal to be categorized.

The editorial celebrates the art of the in-between. His gaze, at once distant and intimate, hints at the liminality of contemporary stardom: both hyper-precise in image and deliberately elusive in meaning. DAZED KOREA positions him not as a muse, but as an agent provocateur of aesthetic discourse.

September issues historically mark high fashion’s most defining statements of the year. In this one, XngHan becomes not simply the face of a pictorial, but a narrative thread in fashion’s evolving conversation on identity, futurism, and beauty beyond binaries. This is not just preview—it is manifesto.

director CHOI JIWOONG(JIWOONG) 
text & art KIM SEONGJAE(WISH)
fashion KIM JEESOO, KIM SUNYOUNG
photography LESS

hair HONG HYUNSEUNG
make-up OH GILJU
assistant PARK MINA(NANA)

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