Harper's Bazaar Hong Kong - 10/2013 (preview)

[terra]

Originally Posted by emi♡

I think it would be really amazing if she could transition away from the japanese gyaru fashion mags, and more into these larger fashion ones.

Agree so much on this, she needs to have her presence more in bigger magazines

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Yeah, especially since we know Alvin is working with her for some concert!

Maybe that's why the INSPIRE-Rule costume for this year's a-nation reminds me of The Diva dress in the magz. I hope he's going to provide her with better styling and fashion styles for further lives.

Originally Posted by truehappiness

I thought the tour book and LOVE again photos were beautiful, but this is another level.

Like elegance/class/expensive/fierce/etc.

[kimmeh]

Harper's Bazaar is such as DAMN CLASSY magazine and I'm SOOO happy Ayu went with the same classy style. She looks SOO GOOD

My favorite is the cover dress and the pink one. A-m-a-z-i-n-g.

Ayu, please stylize your next album like this. No more Party Queen or mushy love again with textures put on soft light blending mode..

[truehappiness]

Party Queen's original concept was pretty amazing imo.

The mushy LOVE again thing will probably never be repeated again unless she's crazy.

[ayu_fantasy]

She's damn hot!!

[kimmeh]

^^ Party Queen could have been awesome if she had pushed it further, but she stopped way too early and in my opinion look bad. I like displaying my Ayu albums on my bookshelf, and TBH, Ayu with ass sticking out kinda doesn't fit in with the rest (even though she'd done naked before, it's always been very gorgeous and classy)

I don't think it worked for her, I see this working waaaaay better.

The stylist(Alvin) said that Secret and a song for XX was his favorite from her discography, but did he mean cover wise? In that case it's kinda funny because they're extreme opposites. a song for xx is her face with little to no obvious photoshop and all about facial expression. Secret is photoshoped so hard that Ayu's waist is like 6 inches, with bling blings and more pose-based than expression based.

I love both TBH so I'm really looking forward to the collaboration between Alvin and Ayu.

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

The making of video is here

http://ayuangel.com/news.php?subacti...179423&archive

[AyUmIXx]

the direct link

http://www.harpersbazaar.com.hk/tv/b...video_m=534563

omggg the BTS video is sooooooooooo cool.
need all the pictures files released. all look amazing.

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

I NEED MORE OF THOSE PICTURES, YAAAASSSS

[kimmeh]

Originally Posted by snowo

If you actually download the pictures from Alvin's facebook you're going to get pretty big images. They're not UHQ but they're good.

Thank you! I downloaded them right away.
I zipped them up and here's a link if anyone wants
https://mega.co.nz/#!TY41yCaJ!V3a1p2...nB_e7tlc8CKCbA

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by kimmeh

^^ Party Queen could have been awesome if she had pushed it further, but she stopped way too early and in my opinion look bad. I like displaying my Ayu albums on my bookshelf, and TBH, Ayu with ass sticking out kinda doesn't fit in with the rest (even though she'd done naked before, it's always been very gorgeous and classy)

I don't think it worked for her, I see this working waaaaay better.

The stylist(Alvin) said that Secret and a song for XX was his favorite from her discography, but did he mean cover wise? In that case it's kinda funny because they're extreme opposites. a song for xx is her face with little to no obvious photoshop and all about facial expression. Secret is photoshoped so hard that Ayu's waist is like 6 inches, with bling blings and more pose-based than expression based.

I love both TBH so I'm really looking forward to the collaboration between Alvin and Ayu.

The new concept was weird. I bet Timmy suggested it to her.

And Ayu said that Secret/ASFXX were her favorites if she had to choose in terms of just... general album-liking.

[kimmeh]

^ Reading fail from my part. But this makes it even more interesting though, I don't think Ayu has mentioned that before.

[truehappiness]

Yes, her usual answer is a canned response like... "My last album is my favorite."

But if she had to choose, I think ASFXX or Secret are good choices. I recall she said Secret was a bit like a second ASFXX? Or was that MY STORY?

[AyuGAME]

can't open the video...

can somebody upload the video please...

[Gustavopc]

Except for the cat woman pic DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN GURL THOSE PICS ARE HOT FIERCE AWESOME AND FREE OF FLAWS

[truehappiness]

But the catwoman is VERSACE@!!!!!@!@

[Larien]

Originally Posted by panda♥

more.

BOMB.

[truehappiness]

http://www.harpersbazaar.com.hk/fash...ctor-interview

Some more behind the scenes shots.

[bluegie]

I gotta say this is one of the best magazine shots from ayu in recent years. Very classy.

[Earth_maiden]

I'm not a fan of the nose hoop thing, but everything else is just beyond perfection.

[stepYOU1234]

Oh my goodness, I almost have no words! So amazing! Shows with the right team/magazine etc that Ayu can go beyond blank pouty expressions for shoots. I'd love to see some of this styling transfer to stage. Squeeee!