TXT on Maturing, Packing for Act: Promise Tour, and Skin Care Essentials

When the members of Tomorrow X Together (TXT) aren’t attending Fashion Week — whether or not on the runway or within the front row — they’re jet-setting on tour. Nevertheless, it is an equally stylish event — and their newest tour, Act: Promise, is proof of that.

Throughout the US tour dates, the live shows’ rigorously crafted phases encapsulated the K-pop group’s five-year journey in only a few hours for followers, often known as MOA, to expertise collectively. The styling performs a significant position in doing so, from their grand entrance with “Deja Vu” to their low-key seems for the youthful anthem “Cat & Canine.”

Whereas the members — Soobin, Yeonjun, Beomgyu, Taehyun, and Hueningkai — make it look seamless on stage, touring isn’t a simple feat. Preparations for live shows could begin months earlier than in Seoul with fittings and costume rehearsals however proceed till the final outfit change backstage and even when the members are doing skincare after the present. To study all of it and absorb the backstage buzz, Teen Vogue caught up with TXT earlier than their sold-out present at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis on June 1, 2024.

Again in 2019, TXT was first launched to the world with vivid colours, playful patterns, and thin denims with their “Crown” music video. Now, the group is thought to have a extra elevated type with nods to punk and grunge aesthetics. “As a result of it has been some years since we debuted, I believe I’d describe it as a journey of rising and being mature, so we undoubtedly see maturing modifications in our aesthetics,” Taehyun tells Teen Vogue by way of an interpreter.

“I would not say it was a radical change, but it surely was extra like a gradual change and gradual being mature and rising. I’d say after our second LP, our type undoubtedly acquired somewhat extra mature than earlier than,” he provides, referring to their album The Chaos Chapter:Freeze, which options the hit single “0X1=Lovesong (I Know I Love You).”

On this tour, the setlist visits every of the group’s chapters, however moderately than in chronological order, the association and coordinating outfits discover a motif. “Every present has 5 sections, and every part has a particular theme,” Hueningkai explains. “Our look and our outfits additionally modified in line with the theme.”

BIGHIT Music and Madison Sq. Backyard for Teen Vogue.

For his or her grand entrance, the group emerges on the stage clad in lace cloaks whereas sporting white trousers and grey blazers, accentuated by harnesses and chain hyperlinks, combining their princely charms and pop punk sounds. Inside the identical part, the members make a fast outfit change to pay homage to their South Korean tradition. “We now have the music ‘Sugar Rush Trip’ rearranged with Korean conventional devices, and we additionally costume in Korean conventional costumes,” Hueningkai says, referring to the hanbok.

The following part, marked by the hit songs “Magic” and “Belief Fund Child,” showcases the members’ extra informal aspect. They’re clad in relaxed-fit denims and designer graphic tee shirts. Whereas they usually put on child blue varsity jackets with bedazzled wings for this a part of the present, for that weekend, the group wore New York Rangers gear, a nod to Madison Sq. Backyard’s dwelling staff.