Designer's Explanation Of BLACKPINK's Lisa Clothing Controversy At The Met Gala

JAKARTA - The name Lisa BLACKPINK is in the public spotlight after the clothes she wore at the prestigious 2025 Met Gala event were considered to have drawn controversy.

This controversy began when there was a lace motive in the underwear section which showed an illustration of a human face. One of the faces in the motive is strongly suspected to be Rosa Parks, an icon of civil rights struggle in the United States.

Reporting from The Cut page, Louis Vuitton explained that the fashion design was the result of collaboration with the artist from the United States, Henry Taylor.

Henry Taylor on one occasion participated in clarifying that the face of the alleged Rosa Parks turned out to be the face of one of his neighbors.

He emphasized that all the portraits used in these clothes are real figures of his own life, such as friends, family, and neighbors that he has previously drawn in original works of art.

The faces seen on this look, as well as on priorius LV performances featuring Taylor's artwork are all drawn from his personal life. Family members, friends, and neighborhoods," he said as quoted by Vulture, Thursday, May 8.

Henry Taylor himself is known for his work which often features portraits of influential figures in American history, especially those related to the black community. This collaboration is part of the spring 2024 collection initiated by Pharrell Williams as creative director of the Louis Vuitton line.

Until now, there has been no official confirmation from Louis Vuitton regarding the identities of the figures whose faces were immortalized in the immersion motif. It is suspected that one of the faces is that Rosa Parks is still speculative, although its visuals are considered to have similarities to many netizens.

For information, Rosa Parks is an iconic symbol in the history of civil rights struggles in the United States. He was widely known after refusing to give his seat to white passengers on the bus in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama.

The action sparked a bus boycott movement that lasted for more than a year and triggered the birth of the modern civil rights movement in America.