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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hi, come in. Welcome to Fashion Neurosis, RM.
Thank you for having me. It's my pleasure and it's really nice and comfy here.
Can you tell me what you're wearing today and why you chose these particular clothes?
So this is the new season of Prada. It's also one of my favorite brand and yeah, you know, leading by Raf Simons and he's also my favorite. And like, to be honest, I'm really, These days I'm really counting on my stylist, which is my friend. Shout out to Kim. And he recommended this shirt because usually I really like this kind of like muted and bleached, you know, like dynes from the like natural elements. So with this color, I feel really natural and myself.
Yeah, it's such an important thing that clothes, they have the power to really free you from self-consciousness.
Sometimes.
And you're the leader of BTS, one of the biggest bands of all time. And you've sold over 40 million albums. And you're the only band since the Beatles to have three number one albums in a year. And you have a humility that's not associated normally with pop music. And I wondered why that's important to you.
I think I never... had a wish like to be this big because I always wanted to have, you know, like such influence to, you know, when you become like an artist or influencer, then sometimes you really want to reach as many as you can. So when you are in the middle of the pop music industry, particularly. It feels really easy to be just... interrupting to be feeling like you have to make people happy and you have to do better on the charts and you're in the mainstream so you should keep your influence and impact by the numbers and stuff. But why I chose this thing No, maybe. It's not that I chose.
What outfit is RM wearing today and why did he choose Prada?
Somebody gave this thing to me and if there's a reason, then I have a belief that it should be still starting from the beginning. like somewhere else, not like you're trying to give people like something. It should be rooted from where you are right now and what you are going through in your actual life and the influences, the inspirations you're having from the life itself. So I think it's all about balance. So, you know, now I'm in the middle of the pop industry, so I have to keep the balance, like try to keep the distance from the numbers and impact itself and try to get close to the nature and all those kind of things that are not related to this fast, such a fast era.
Yeah, so you can stay connected to the idea that is your inspiration.
Yes, because as a young man, I'm 31 by the way, it is really not that easy to be... not to be interrupted by all those shorts and reels and clips. It makes me really nervous and keep making me feel like I have to do something like every day, every time I have to leave something, but it's gone so fast. So I have my biggest fear for those waves coming through so fast.
God, it's a real mantle that you're wearing. And was fashion a thing in your home? And I wondered if anyone in your family, was there anyone whose style influenced you?
Um, my father wanted to be, um, wanted to be, uh, I like a cartoon artist. I don't know what it is called in English. He wanted to draw cartoons. But at that time in Korea, we were really poor and we got nothing. So my grandmother stopped him from what he really wanted to do. And my mother was a teacher. And so I think my father had some such craving and ego for something else except studies and jobs and stuff. So he was really quite supportive for what I was trying to do, which is music. And my mother, she was really always trying to give me the stability. telling me not to challenge too much, just be in the safe zone. And I was like a, like a small, um, like a clock pin going back and forth, um, with my father and mother.
So I think I've learned the balance. from my parents and they were, they were such great parents to me.
Because you've described experiencing Stendhal syndrome, where looking at certain works of art and feeling overwhelmed by the intensity of what you see. And I wondered if you'd ever had those kind of intense and extreme reactions to any fashion.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:06–3:10
2
What outfit is RM wearing today and why did he choose Prada?
3:10–11:07
3
How does RM describe the responsibility and humility of being BTS’s leader?
11:07–49:34
4
When and how did RM first experience Stendhal syndrome with Rick Owens’ fashion?
49:34–1:03:03