Jennie attended the Met Gala for the first time. The BLACKPINK member attended the 2023 Met Gala with the theme ‘Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty’, in honor of the late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld.
Jennie BLACKPINK was one of the invited guests to attend the world’s largest fashion prestigious event. Previously, Rose attended the Met Gala 2022 with the theme ‘In America: An Anthology of Fashion’.
Jennie BLACKPINK’s appearance at her first Met Gala
Jennie BLACKPINK certainly tried to follow the 2023 Met Gala theme in her first appearance. She wore a white Chanel mini dress with a scalloped neckline and a black ribbon belt at the waist featuring Chanel’s signature camellia flower in white at the center.
Jennie BLACKPINK’s sweet look was paired with black tights, black long gloves, a black ribbon necklace, white camellias in her hair, and black pumps.
Jennie BLACKPINK posed beautifully on the Met Gala 2023 red carpet. She posed, smiled, had a fierce expression, and showed her star charm on the red carpet of the world’s highest fashion event.
Apparently, Jennie BLACKPINK’s outfit came from Chanel’s fall 1990 ready-to-wear collection. The dress is a reinterpretation of look 164 from Lagerfeld’s fall 1990 ready-to-wear collection.
Jennie BLACKPINK’s Impact at the 2023 Met Gala
Jennie BLACKPINK’s first appearance at the Met Gala was certainly highly anticipated by fans, especially BLINK. Jennie’s appearance in Chanel was like a thirst quencher for fans who were thirsty and curious about Jennie’s beauty at the fashion event.
As a result, fans enlivened Jennie’s name and hastag at the 2023 Met Gala as a form of their support. According to @viraltakes, Jennie trended in several million tweets on Twitter for her debut appearance at the Met Gala.
Hastags and tweets with the phrases ‘JENNIE MET GALA’, ‘JENNIE’, ‘JENNIE AT MET GALA’, and others briefly topped Twitter’s trending.
Quoting Twitter @jnkoopsies, Jennie BLACKPINK also caused a stir in the crowd of fans when she left the hotel to head to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the Met Gala was held. Fans shouted her name and competed to immortalize Jennie by recording videos or taking photos.
The @21metgala tweet that shared a photo of Jennie BLACKPINK at the 2023 Met Gala even attracted a lot of attention. Tweets about Jennie’s first appearance at the Met Gala have been viewed 9.9 million times, with more than 35.3 thousand retweets, 27 thousand quotes, 123.4 thousand likes, and 2,627 bookmarks.
The 2023 Met Gala tickets have increased from $30,000 to $50,000. But, although celebrities or important figures can buy Met Gala tickets, only certain people can attend.
Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue, is famous for her role in creating the Met Gala guest list. She personally approves each guest and begins planning the guest list months in advance, carefully selecting each invitee. This means that Jennie BLACKPINK received an invitation with Wintour’s approval to attend the Met Gala, which is the world’s highest fashion event.