Last Monday, May 5, the long -awaited With Gala 2025the most important hollywood fashion event that collects funds year by year for the Costume Institute of the New York Metropolitan Museum (MET).
This event is held on the first Monday of each year, and this time, hundreds of celebrities from all over the world wore their looks Inspired by black dandism under the theme “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style”.
But that’s not all, since this year’s official ambassador was the fashionable house Louis Vuittonwho was also in charge of inviting his ambassadors to represent the brand and the theme.
Among her guests was the Blackpink member, Lisa, who did not go unnoticed with her extravagant outfit that quickly caught attention through social networks by a mysterious and questioned reference in one of her garments.
The photographs shared by the singer herself and the fashionable house show Lisa wearing a adjusted body with portraits of different people. This piece was created by the artist Henry Taylor and the creative director of Louis Vuitton, Pharrell Williams.
While this body made Lisa look with a spectacular figure, various users on social networks began to criticize the singer for cultural appropriation after Include African -American Rosa Parks activist in the garment.
Given this controversy created in social networks, the fashion house recently declared through the New York Times, that the body portraits that Lisa used does not represent historical figures, but come from the artist’s intimate circle.
“The lace reproduces elements of a work of art by American artist Henry Taylor that represents portraits of figures that have been part of the artist’s life”.
Besides, a representative of Henry Taylor He complemented this clarification and explained that the figure questioned does not correspond to Rosa Parks.
“The figure that appears in Lisa’s look in Louis Vuitton is not Rosa Parks, but a neighbor of Henry. The faces that are seen in this look, as well as in previous LV garments with Taylor illustrations, They come from their personal life: family, friends and neighbors”.
“These figures come directly from Henry’s works of art, which provided LVMH for Pharrell’s debut collection with Louis Vuitton in 2023. None of the people represented in the garments are Rosa Parks, nor any other known figure in black cultural history. They are all people in Henry’s life. ”
