Over the years, reality TV has been known for a lot of things – chucked drinks, the phrase “slut pig!”, shouting matches beside fire pits – but never really for its style . On Love Island , still the UK’s biggest reality show, the guys will often be in loose unbranded T-shirts and thigh-tight jeans, cookie-cutter walnut whip hair and white trainers. Over in the US, on all the Bravo shows, the situation is even blander.
Vanderpump Rules ’ Tom Sandoval dresses like a magician. Every husband on the Real Housewives franchise dresses like “some guy.” But look, we don't watch reality TV for its style inspo.
We watch it for the drama. Until now. Netflix’s new reality series The Boyfriend is Japan's first same-sex dating show .
It's a stand-out for a lot of reasons – Japan is still relatively conservative when it comes to public queerness, with same-sex unions still not legalised. So a gay TV show is a big deal. But it's also a stand-out because these nine cast members are some of the best-dressed men you'll see on reality TV.
They each enter, one after the other, in loose blue jeans, crisp white shirts, fleece gilets and rectangular silver watches, their hair either spiked, slicked back or tucked behind one ear. Tiny earrings abound. One member, 34–year-old Taiwanese hairdresser Gensei, has a little barcode tattoo that is not terrifying.
28-year-old Ryota has modelled for Celine. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. We don't tend to s.
