For Your Viewing Pleasure: Power Pose

Welcome back to another instalment of For Your Viewing Pleasure, where we take time out of the week to curate a set of photos from the K-pop landscape.

What’s in a power pose? A central focus, an wavering and piercing gaze, a confidence that runs up-and-down and through-and-through the subject. These selected stars have something else to add: J-Hope brings a textured palette of color and unique movement to his editorial with Esquire; the five women of Le Sserafim emphasize their strength in numbers as they strut across their tour poster; and the ladies of NMIXX challenge the masculine connotations in “power pose,” opting to show how power—even that with softer edges—comes first from within.

(Images via GIANNA, Hybe Entertainment, SM Entertainment, Pledis Entertainment, Rolling Stone, JYP Entertainment, RBW Entertainment, Esquire, Boucheron, Elle.)