Jeonghan and Joshua have spent years earning their reputations as SEVENTEEN's resident evil twins. Now, DREAMSCAPE has its own version of the Cinderella rule: heavenly whites before midnight, black leather once the dream begins.
The duo's DREAMSCAPE concept photos perform one of fashion's favourite magic tricks: duality. One minute, Jeonghan and Joshua are wandering through greenery in billowing white layers like woodland fairies looking for Wi-Fi signal. The next, they're dressed in leather, distressed T-shirts, and dark denim, suggesting the fairies have discovered motorcycles.
It's a fitting wardrobe for an album built around blurring the lines between dreams and reality. Released on Monday, 19 October, JxJ's seven-track debut mini album explores dreams as both unconscious fantasy and the ideals people chase in reality, with title track '12 o'clock' following an obsessive search for someone who keeps appearing and disappearing in a dream. Even before pressing play, their concept photos have already proven that the styling scores a twelve out of ten.
Daydreamers Dress To Chase a Feathery Dream
The softer side of DREAMSCAPE could practically float away like that stubborn white feather that Jeonghan and Joshua chase throughout the '12 o'clock' music video. In the Daydreamers imagery, white becomes an entire mood. Sheer shirts, loose trousers, relaxed necklines, and lightweight layers soften both silhouettes.
The outfits contrast with the cottage-core backdrop as the duo lounges in grass, wades into water, and dramatically frolics through a meadow of blue butterflies. Generally, they behave as though they've fallen straight out of the pages of a bedtime storybook.
The styling wisely resists over-accessorising. Slim necklaces and rings give the looks definition without disturbing all that dreamy movement, while damp hair and deliberately undone silhouettes keep the white-on-white outfits from drifting into pristine angel territory. It does, however, veer dangerously close to Jeonghan's 'angel' nickname, momentarily putting his usual 'evil twin' allegations on official leave.
Then the Angels Discover Leather
The Daydreamers awaken and turn into Dreamchasers, which proves that others may dream in black-and-white, but they dream in leather. White gives way to grungier styling. The leather and denim may have been distressed, but the artists seemed completely untroubled while looking like trouble.
Joshua appears sprawled across a battered armchair in an all-black look, while the pair pose in pared-back T-shirts and dark jeans. The rockstar aesthetic subtly exudes rebels with a cause, if that cause is relentlessly running after a white feather, of course.
Even when the styling strips down to basics, texture takes its place as the focal point. Faded cotton, belts, leather, metal jewellery, and deliberately messy hair make the clothes feel like they've been well-worn and well-loved. The duality of the two moodboards showcases that the SEVENTEEN members look right at home in either an enchanted forest or an aesthetically pleasing abandoned warehouse after midnight.
That contrast is precisely what makes the concept work hard enough to interrupt a REM cycle. Daydreamers doesn't merely look 'soft', and Dreamchasers doesn't simply look 'edgy'. Together, they turn the album's push and pull between fantasy and reality into something wearable.
'12 o'clock' Lands Somewhere in Between
Then comes '12 o'clock,' where the wardrobe refuses to choose a side. The music video follows Jeonghan and Joshua through a surreal landscape as they search for an elusive figure, mirroring lyrics that repeatedly question where dreams end and reality begins. White feathers become breadcrumbs through the fantasy, while the attire bounces between romantic tailoring and rebellious leather.
That makes JxJ's fashion duality more than a convenient concept-photo switch-up. The clothes behave like the dream itself: beautiful, unstable, and capable of changing personalities without warning.
From heavenly whites to rebellious leather, JxJ has mastered the art of getting dressed for both sides of a dream. If chasing feathers through gorgeous landscapes in couture is what DREAMSCAPE looks like, consider the alarm clock snoozed until further notice.
