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Black shades and a pink towel had been all Blackpink’s Jennie Kim wanted to look stylish forward of the Jacquemus present in Capri, Italy.
Channeling Brigitte Bardot in Jean Luc Godard’s 1963 French New Wave movie “Le Mépris” (“Contempt”), the Okay-pop star was featured in a collection of vignettes posted by the model on Instagram a day forward of the catwalk. She was pictured in a towel mendacity throughout terracotta tiles, strolling bare-shouldered alongside the rugged Capri shoreline, and gazing out on the water at Casa Malaparte the place the film was filmed. And simply as Bardot was to Godard, Jennie was designer Simon Porte Jacquemus’s star on the runway on Monday.
In her shock runway debut, the 28-year-old closed the present of minimalist type and colourful threads in a backless halter gown, paired with a turquoise shoulder bag and zebra-print heels. The transfer added to her already important listing of accomplishments as a singer, rapper, and up to date foray into performing, and her position as a model ambassador for Chanel.
In recent times, Korean pop stars have change into the darlings of the style world, drawing in crowds because the obsession with Korean popular culture turns into a worldwide phenomenon. Given their profitable attraction, increasingly luxurious style homes have signed offers with main celebrities. Followers ready outdoors venues have change into a fixture as they appear to get a glimpse of the Okay-pop celebrities attending style reveals.
In fact, followers would have had a troublesome time attending to this runway location. Casa Malaparte, a home commissioned by eccentric Italian author Curzio Malaparte is constructed on a cliff overlooking the Gulf of Salerno and may solely be accessed by foot or by boat.
The home and Godard’s “Le Mépris” captivated the designer when he launched his label 15 years in the past, and the present “marks a full-circle second,” stated the model in a press launch.
The fashions made their method up and down a staircase that makes up a part of the roof of the home in ensembles Jacquemus described as architectural shapes rising “with absolute lightness and sensuality,” “cascading, peeling again, curving low down the perimeters of the physique or revealing by way of sheer mousseline like a layer of water.”
“I made a decision to create my model after watching ‘Le Mépris’ from Jean-Luc Godard, being impressed by the wonder and modernity of his imaginative and prescient,” the designer wrote on Instagram.
Jacquemus is understood for scenic runways. In June final 12 months, he introduced an eveningwear assortment at Versailles impressed by Princess Diana and Jacques Demy’s 1970 absurdist movie adaptation of the Seventeenth-century fairy story “Peau d’Ane,” (“Donkey Pores and skin”), whereas for his tenth anniversary present he ventured into Provence’s lavender fields.