It’s been a giant few weeks for Blackpink’s Lisa. The Okay-pop star is coming off the excessive of her latest solo launch, “Rockstar,” having fun with the ecstatic response to information of Blackpink’s forthcoming reunion, and now, she has much more to have fun. Louis Vuitton has introduced that the Thai-born singer is the model’s latest home ambassador, becoming a member of a really secure that additionally consists of Zendaya and Emma Stone.
“I’m very excited to welcome Lisa as a Home Ambassador,” mentioned Nicolas Ghesquière, Louis Vuitton’s creative director of ladies’s collections. “She has a daring spirit and charisma that I discover extremely compelling. She is as daring and artistic along with her music as she is along with her style, and it’s a privilege to accompany her on this journey.”
Lisa on the Louis Vuitton fall/winter 2024 present in March.
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Beforehand, Lisa (whose full title is Lalisa Manobal) was an envoy for Celine, one other LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton-owned model. Lisa was extremely supportive of Hedi Slimane’s work, typically attending home occasions and even strolling in Celine’s girls’s winter 2022 presentation. However then, indicators emerged that one thing was brewing between Louis Vuitton and Lisa. It started along with her look on the model’s fall/winter 2024 present again in March. Following the presentation, Lisa began carrying Louis Vuitton on the common, displaying off her wares like an “Alma PM” high deal with bag from Marc Jacobs’s spring 2001 assortment for the model, which featured a collab with the late American designer, Stephen Sprouse. The ultimate trace got here with the discharge of the singer’s newest single, “Rockstar,” her first in three years. The monitor options that lyric, “Tight costume, LV despatched it / Oh shit, Lisa reppin’.”
It’s a good time for Louis Vuitton to board the Lalisa bandwagon. Not solely did “Rockstar” debut at quantity 4 on the Billboard International 200 chart, the video has over 122 million views on YouTube. Plus, it was simply introduced on Sunday that Blackpink will formally reunite underneath YG Leisure, with new music and a world tour coming in 2025.
Earlier than that, although, Lisa is about to make her performing debut in The White Lotus season three, set in Thailand. No phrase but on what position she is going to play within the third installment of the extremely standard Max sequence, however on the very least we are able to now predict what model she is going to put on on the crimson carpet for the premiere.
