With a rising variety of Ok-Pop stars securing luxurious model ambassadorships, it’s no shock {that a} batch of younger stars made a splash on the Met Gala purple carpet Monday evening.
Met Gala veteran Jennie of the chart-topping woman group BLACKPINK arrived in a blue customized Alaïa minidress, in the meantime world sensations Stray Youngsters joined Tommy and Dee Hilfiger at trend’s largest evening.
The eight-member boy group (comprised of Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Han, Hyunjin, Felix, Seungmin and I.N) appeared gorgeous in customized Tommy Hilfiger that includes the model’s signature purple, white and blue shade palette with wealthy gold accents. The group began the evening in glossy overcoats earlier than revealing their remaining look.
In an interview on the purple carpet with Vogue, the group’s chief, Bang Chan, praised Hilfiger for bringing the group. “We’re stoked to be right here, and if it wasn’t for Tommy, we might not be right here,” Bang Chan mentioned. “Thanks to Tommy for inviting us, all eight of us,” he added.
Hilfiger praised the group proper again. “They’re as fashionable as you will get,” he mentioned. “They’re fashionable prep, and so they’re world superstars.”
This yr marks the group’s first Met Gala look, however it’s actually not their first time working with Tommy Hilfiger. Simply final month, the group joined the model of their spring marketing campaign.
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Jennie’s minidress featured a daring but enjoyable cutout that includes a charmed waist chain. The 28-year-old Ok-Pop powerhouse soloist and woman group member is understood for her trend sense alongside along with her rapping and singing potential.
This yr’s gown was fairly totally different from her Met Gala debut in 2023. The singer, who turned a Chanel ambassador in 2021, was proper on theme eventually yr’s occasion celebrating “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line Of Magnificence.”
This yr’s gown code, “The Backyard of Time,” takes its cue from the 1962 brief story of the identical identify by J.G. Ballard, which dovetails properly with the most recent Metropolitan Museum of Artwork Costume Institute exhibition, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Vogue, which opens to the general public on Friday, Could 10. The Andrew Bolton-curated present spotlights fragile items from the institute’s archives, all seen via a lens of nature. The exhibit’s espresso desk guide will likely be launched on June 18.
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