In April I mentioned the term "celebrity boyfriend" as used among my Korean class friends (bottom of this post)
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/945571.htmlA lot of the time I think of Jay Powell as my celebrity boyfriend, although as usual I don't think I would have him as my real boyfriend, even if he were single, which he's not. Despite all the sh*t that has been flung at him, he's still a registered Republican. WTH?
This morning I decided that maybe my new celebrity boyfriend (coincidentally in line with the class's Korean focus) is Kang Soobin, a bespoke tailor in Seoul. Derek Guy had a couple of Atelier Willow's IG stories embedded in a twitter thread, and I got a zing from watching an impeccably dressed person doing hand sewing.
I spent quite a while trying to track him/the store down in two languages, one of which I can't really read.
I found someone's blog about buying a jacket from them (in Korean on Naver, with a translate button that made it possible to me to figure out what is going on). (the owner of the new jacket also had a couple of photos of cute twins, a plus).
I don't use Meta products so I can't link to the little videos. I found a video interview with him on youtube, but he's talking, not sewing. English captions are available
https://youtu.be/oXoDPuKjbvU?feature=sharedI found an architecture firm in Alabama with the same name. There's an herbal store in Montreal, also.
Speaking of a commonly chosen celebrity boyfriend, Kim Seokjin (mentioned in the post linked) is doing a solo tour with a fairly limited number of cities. A twitter thread this morning was talking about how far people are traveling to see him. Someone in CA is driving 400 miles. She was one-upped by someone driving 600 miles to Tampa. Someone else said that she had considered flying to Tampa but was afraid she'd be turned away by ICE at the airport. This is someone (judging from her profile) who would be coming from Peru. Are her fears sensible? I looked on orbitz. There are no nonstop flights from Lima to Tampa, but lots of connecting choices. The shortest trips connect through Panama City, another place that is not the US, so she'd have to have her passport checked twice on the way. The airlines would not be offering flights if most of their passengers were being denied entry. If she's worried, should she be posting like that?