Author Archives: Justin "Jae" Song

Kinowear editor & stylist

Science of Style: Stage 3 – Part 4: Dressing to Stand Out

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Whether you want to make a killer impression during your job interview, or be the best dressed at your birthday bash, sometimes you want to stand out from the crowd.

Science of Style: Stage 3 – Part 3: Creating Complete Outfits

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The practice of building complete and attractive outfits is an essential skill on the road to style mastery. If you want to become a master of your own style, you absolutely need to think in outfits when you’re out shopping. This one small paradigm-shift will be an enormous breakthrough in your style.

Science of Style: Stage 3 – Part 2: Minding the Details

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Minding the details is the essence of styling. So if you aspire to become a master of your own style, it’s absolutely imperative you get good at spotting the details in fashion. The more you learn about creatively working the details of any look, the more you’ll appreciate and enjoy the little nuances that create your own unique style.

Science of Style: Stage 3 – Part 1: Building Proficiency

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Stage 3 of mastering your own style is focused on getting you proficient in the art of phenomenal style. You’re going to implement timeless principles that will help you look your personal best. Once the fundamentals are down, we’ll also get into how you can add special touches that will really make a statement.

Science of Style: Stage 2 – Modeling

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Stage 2 is all about modeling off the best, gaining understanding of the language of style in our culture, and building important shopping habits to set yourself up towards realizing your unique and best style.

Science of Style: Stage 1 – Knowing Yourself

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It’s important that as a foundation to your best style, you need to know who you are, your core purpose, and the type of people you want to attract or build stronger relationships with. Skipping this first stage is the root cause of many common image mistakes such as being incongruent with your personality, looking try-hard, or merely following trends that come and go.

Science of Style: Introducing the Highly Awaited Series

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Through all my years of being out in the field of working with people on looking and feeling their best, I’ve broken down the process of how a guy can go from having no style to making an amazing impression.

There’s a lot of “what to wear” and “what not to wear” type of advice out there, but nobody is talking about a method on how to really develop your own unique sense of style.

Kinowear Style Pick: Killer Varvatos Accessories

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Curse you John Varvatos. You’ve done it again. I was looking through this Fall 2011 collection and I instantly wanted every accessory seen here. I want the shoes, duffel bag, scarf, sunglasses, hat, even the damn furry pocket key-chain. It reminds me once again, that accessories can make your entire look.

How to Improve Your Style: The Kaizen Way

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I recently saw a friend’s closet, and he had so many amazing pieces in his closet – more than me! I was blown away and I asked him, “How the heck do you build this amazing wardrobe?” He told me, “It didn’t take me that much effort actually…”

Kinowear Style Pick: Dolce & Gabbana Rope Belt

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It’s a rare moment when a runway show inspires me to immediately add something fresh to my personal look. When I recently saw Dolce & Gabbanna feature rope belts in their Spring 2011 collection, I thought to myself, “Genius! Where can I buy some rope right now!?” It was an accessory that threw me into nostalgia…