Inside Karl Lagerfeld’s love for K-pop stars, from Blackpink’s Jennie who debuted at the 2023 Met Gala, to Big Bang’s G-Dragon who walked in his Chanel couture show in 2015
- K-pop ‘It’ girl Jennie Kim from Blackpink made headlines after wearing a 1990s vintage Chanel minidress to the 2023 Met Gala – a repurposed look from the late Karl Lagerfeld’s collection
- Before the German designer picked Jennie as a muse for the French luxury fashion house, he also took a shine to BigBang’s leader G-Dragon, photographing him for three separate Vogue covers in 2016
Blackpink’s Jennie Kim made her Met Gala debut on May 1, wearing a 1990s vintage Chanel minidress – a repurposed look from the late Karl Lagerfeld’s collection. Besides Kim, K-pop legend and fashion icon G-Dragon was also one of the German designer’s muses.
Here’s how Lagerfeld brought two of Korea’s biggest names under his wing.
Jennie Kim’s 2023 Met Gala look
Her 1990s white satin bustier dress, cinched at the waist with a black ribbon and white camellia embellishment, is the Chanel team’s reinterpretation of look 164 of Lagerfeld’s autumn 1990 ready-to-wear collection, per Vogue.
Kim is the second Blackpink member to attend the Met Gala, so picked up some advice from fellow member Rosé, who made her own Met Gala debut in a custom Saint Laurent minidress.
“Rosé, she was here last year, and she told me, ‘just have fun,’ so that’s the plan,” Kim told Emma Chamberlain in a livestream interview for Vogue.
G-Dragon’s relationship with Karl Lagerfeld
