Photo Credits: Harper’s Bazaar Singapore.  Pledis Entertainment. Calvin Klein

“Elegance, reframed: Mingyu makes the ritual of getting ready a performance in itself.”

There is a particular kind of magnetism when Mingyu of Seventeen steps into frame, the kind that feels both cinematic and disarmingly familiar. In Harper’s Bazaar Singapore’s latest “Get Ready With Me” feature, Mingyu dismantles the assumptions of polished perfection, letting us linger instead in the quiet seduction of ritual—the pause before the stage, the intimacy of preparation.

The camera doesn’t simply record; it frames him as both muse and architect of his own elegance. A white shirt draped with gravity-defying insouciance, a watch that doesn’t shout but whispers legacy, a spritz of fragrance caught mid-air—it’s less about objects and more about the language they speak on him. Every gesture is deliberate, yet never rehearsed: a study in cultivated ease.

“The magnetism is cinematic, yet he is disarmingly present.”

Where idols often teeter between accessibility and untouchable fantasy, Mingyu’s presence says: why not both? There’s delight in the disarming smile as he adjusts cufflinks, in the way he narrates with warmth, puncturing the illusion of distance. Yet make no mistake—this is a man acutely aware of silhouettes, of light, of the armor and poetry clothes can lend to a body.

This Harper’s Bazaar moment reads like a visual sonnet to the Mingyu archetype: tall, tailored, but softened by the language of skin, voice, and glance. If fashion editorial once sought ideals that towered above the human, here we meet a star who invites us inside his getting-ready process, yet never loses the hauteur of luxury. It’s intimacy refracted through gloss, relatability lit by the flash of high fashion.

“Luxury, softened by humanity: this is Mingyu’s signature.”

The takeaway? Mingyu is not merely wearing the story of modern masculinity and glamour—he is rewriting it. He embodies what today’s icons must be: elegant yet accessible, immaculate yet imperfectly unfolding before us.

This “GRWM” is not just a format; it’s a recalibration of star power—proof that sometimes, the most dazzling scene is backstage, in the alchemy of becoming.

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