Jennie Kim is formally Met Gala royalty. The BLACKPINK celebrity turned heads as soon as once more on the 2025 Met Gala on Monday, Might 5, marking her third look at style’s most high-profile night time.
The 28-year-old singer and style icon wore a show-stopping Chanel tuxedo robe, styled with basic pearl particulars and a dramatic, outsized matching hat.
Usually nicknamed “Human Chanel” by South Korean media, Jennie has lengthy been related to the long-lasting style home — and for good purpose. She’s been an envoy for the model for years, even being the final home ambassador chosen by legendary designer Karl Lagerfeld earlier than his passing.
“I bear in mind after I was little, I look by my mom’s wardrobe, and seek for no matter classic Chanel I might discover,” Jennie advised Elle Journal in a 2019 interview.
This 12 months’s Met Gala theme, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Fashion,” celebrated the affect of Black style and id by the artwork of suiting and tailoring. The official costume code? “Tailor-made For You.” The exhibit was impressed by Slaves to Vogue: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identification, a 2009 guide by writer and professor Monica L. Miller.
“Dandyism can appear frivolous, however it usually poses a problem to or a transcendence of social and cultural hierarchies,” Miller mentioned in an announcement. “It asks questions on id, illustration, and mobility in relation to race, class, gender, sexuality, and energy… ‘Superfine’ [refers] not solely to the standard of a selected cloth — ‘superfine wool’ — but in addition as a selected perspective associated to feeling particularly good in a single’s personal physique, in garments that specific the self.”
Jennie’s presence at this 12 months’s gala comes at a serious excessive level in her solo profession. She dropped her debut album Ruby in March and lately carried out a solo set at Coachella, incomes reward from followers and critics alike.
After all, she’s nonetheless a proud member of BLACKPINK. The group made historical past at Coachella in 2019 as the primary feminine Okay-pop group to carry out there — and by 2023, they grew to become the primary Asian act to ever headline the pageant.
In 2023, every member signed solo offers, however BLACKPINK remains to be below YG Leisure. A gaggle comeback is anticipated someday in 2025 — their first in three years.
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