Lisa’s Met Gala Outfit Did Not Depict Rosa Parks on Panties: Artist

• Lisa Manobal’s Louis Vuitton quantity on the 2025 Met Gala didn’t characteristic Rosa Parks’ likeness, in line with the artist
• A rep for Henry Taylor instructed Vulture that as a substitute, “The determine featured in Lisa’s Louis Vuitton look just isn’t Rosa Parks, however one in every of Henry’s neighbors”
• This 12 months marked the BLACKPINK singer and White Lotus actress’s Met Gala debut

Rosa Parks didn’t make an look on Lisa Manobal‘s underwear on the 2025 Met Gala.

The Ok-Pop star precipitated fairly a stir in New York Metropolis earlier this week, when she made her debut at trend’s largest evening in a lingerie-style ensemble that appeared to some to have late civil-rights activist Parks’ face embroidered on the panties.

However in a press release to Vulture, a consultant for artist Henry Taylor, who collaborated on Lisa’s look with Pharrell Williams, mentioned, “The determine featured in Lisa’s Louis Vuitton look just isn’t Rosa Parks, however one in every of Henry’s neighbors.”

“The faces seen on this look, in addition to on earlier LV clothes that includes Taylor’s paintings, are all drawn from his private life — relations, associates, and neighbors,” the rep continued. “These figures come straight from Henry’s present artworks, which he offered to LVMH for Pharrell’s debut assortment with Louis Vuitton in 2023.”

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They concluded, “Not one of the people depicted in any of the clothes are Rosa Parks or different well-known figures from Black cultural historical past. They’re all individuals from Henry’s personal life.”

The web was set ablaze on Monday, Could 5, after BLACKPINK member and White Lotus star Lisa, 28, arrived on the Met Gala in a pair of black tights and cheeky underwear. From afar, the look appeared regular, however zooming in, faces designed into the lace bodysuit could possibly be seen.

Vogue beforehand reported that Taylor embroidered portraits into her ensemble. Based on a press release by Louis Vuitton, the lace depicts “portraits of figures who’ve been part of the artist’s life,” although it didn’t make clear if any well-known faces had been included.

Lisa’s whole outfit included a form-fitting black blazer with sheer panels. She accessorized with a black Louis Vuitton purse, black pumps and a pearl chain connected to the underside of her jacket. Her blonde hair was saved in a voluminous updo with comfortable and easy make-up to enrich.

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Held on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in N.Y.C. on the primary Monday in Could yearly, the Met Gala is a fundraiser for The Costume Institute. This 12 months’s occasion spotlighted the museum’s spring 2025 exhibition, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Model,” the theme for the gala.

Curator in Cost Andrew Bolton mentioned that the exhibit, which is impressed by visitor curator Monica L. Miller’s 2009 guide Slaves to Style: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identification, explores “the Black dandy as each an idea and an identification signifier.”

The exhibit “presents a cultural and historic examination of Black type from the 18th century to the current via an exploration of the idea of dandyism,” in line with a publish on the museum’s Instagram.

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