Blackpink star Jennie Kim made her Met Gala debut in a classic 90s Chanel minidress, and it exhibits why followers name her 'Human Chanel'

• Okay-pop group Blackpink’s Jennie Kim makes her Met Gala debut on Could 1. 
• Kim wore a ’90s classic Chanel minidress — a repurposed look from Karl Lagerfeld’s assortment.
• Moreover Kim, Okay-pop legend and style icon G-Dragon was additionally certainly one of Lagerfeld’s muses.

Okay-pop world sensation Blackpink’s Jennie Kim made her Met Gala debut on Could 1 in a candy classic Chanel minidress, honoring the late designer Karl Lagerfeld.

Her ’90s white satin bustier costume, cinched on the waist with a black ribbon and white camellia embellishment, is the Chanel workforce’s reinterpretation of look 164 of Lagerfeld’s fall 1990 ready-to-wear assortment, per Vogue.

As certainly one of Lagerfeld’s final handpicked muses for the home of Chanel, the Okay-pop “it woman” has been dubbed “Human Chanel” by followers and the media alike, typically beautiful crowds with costly, elegant Chanel appears to be like.

Kim can be the second Blackpink member to attend the Met Gala, and she or he picked up some recommendation from fellow member Rosé, who made her personal Met Gala debut in a customized Saint Laurent minidress. 

“Rosé, she was right here final yr, and she or he instructed me, ‘simply have enjoyable,’ so that is the plan,” Kim instructed Emma Chamberlain in a livestream interview for Vogue.

Kim is not the primary South Korean superstar that Lagerfeld took a shine to.

G-Dragon, the chief of BIGBANG, South Korea’s high boyband within the 2010s, was certainly one of Lagerfeld’s muses, too. In 2016, Lagerfeld shot photographs of G-Dragon for 3 separate Vogue Korea covers.

The BIGBANG chief was additionally noticed at a number of Chanel exhibits, and was the one Asian superstar to stroll in Lagerfeld’s casino-themed Chanel Couture Fall/Winter present in Paris again in 2015.

In 2017, G-Dragon instructed Dazed what it was like to satisfy Lagerfeld for the primary time — gushing concerning the dressmaker and calling him a “rockstar.”

“I do not keep in mind it completely, nevertheless it was such an honor. For them, it is like, ‘Who’s that man? Who’s that Asian child?’ – however I sat entrance row and every little thing was particular for me,” G-Dragon instructed Dazed.

“Karl is Karl, Chanel is Chanel – interval, proper? He is on one other degree. His personal zone,” the rapper added.

Upon Lagerfeld’s dying in 2019, G-Dragon additionally posted a particular tribute to him on Instagram — posting an outdated picture of Lagerfeld, himself, and 20 different celebrities on the 2015 present.

In recent times, a rising variety of Okay-pop stars are being appointed ambassadors of luxurious powerhouses as a “calculated transfer to faucet into the booming South Korean market,” as beforehand reported by Insider’s Cheryl Teh.