Jennie showed up at the Chanel Métiers d'Art show, the look is documented, and that little countdown from earlier this week is done. Welcome back to the BLACKPINK Daily Podcast — I'm Joey, Cassidy's here, and we’ve got Jennie's confirmed Chanel moment, a São Paulo pricing number that needs a reality check, and a Femina Lisa retrospective that says a lot about where editors think her brand is headed. First, Chanel. Then we need to talk about that R$30 São Paulo figure, because it does not sit neatly next to the R$89-to-999 range YG announced on May 25, and I want that gap on the record before the doors open Thursday. And I’ve got notes on how Koreaboo is writing up Jennie’s look versus what Jennie actually said about her relationship with the house. Those are very different stories. From Anadya Narain at Femina:
BLACKPINK's Lisa is unarguably one of the most famous faces in Asia. The Thai singer-rapper, now stepping into the world of acting, has long stood out for her bold and ever-evolving personal style. Over the years, her fashion choices have transformed just as dramatically as her artistic persona.
Femina ran a Lisa style retrospective yesterday — 2016 Melon Music Awards through 2026, Celine, Bulgari, Louis Vuitton, the whole timeline. There’s nothing new in the facts, but the timing is the point: it landed the day after the Chanel Métiers d'Art Seoul show, and editors are clearly treating BLACKPINK fashion like one connected beat right now. And that’s exactly what a lifestyle magazine does when a solo brand is strong enough to carry a standalone piece going into an anniversary year. Lisa doesn’t need a fresh release for Femina to publish the retrospective — that’s the signal. Brazilian BLINKs have been dealing with K-pop import prices that are basically another concert ticket, so when a São Paulo BLACKPINK pop-up says items start at R$30, I have to ask: is that actually accessible, or is this just the cheapest thing on the table? It’s a real signal, and here’s why. Billboard Brasil confirmed back in March that the São Paulo pop-up is in Bom Retiro and carrying official Deadline-era merch, so this isn’t some grey-market setup — it’s YG-sanctioned product in Brazil. And R$30 matters because BLINKs have been comparing this against what they’ve seen before: a BTS pop-up in São Paulo in mid-2025 drew immediate backlash for what outlets called “exorbitant” pricing, with fans shocked once import duties and local markups hit the total. That BTS store, per reporting at the time, also made people pre-register and wait for a timed entry slot just to get in, which already told you it was built like a premium experience, not a mass-access one. Blackpink putting Deadline in Bom Retiro — a dense, transit-friendly neighborhood instead of a high-rent mall on the Paulista strip — looks like a deliberate move to widen the funnel. So is the São Paulo store actually the first time BLACKPINK has tried this kind of localized merch push in Latin America, or did they test this somewhere else in the region first? Actually, Lima got there first — Peru was announced as the first Latin American country to get the Deadline pop-up experience, and that store was framed as an immersive, in-person era showcase, not just a merch table. São Paulo looks like the next step in a pretty deliberate regional rollout. And for BLINKs, the thing to watch is whether the pricing and neighborhood strategy in Brazil holds as the Latin American footprint grows — if it does, that’s a meaningful shift in how YG is thinking about fan access below the equator. Here's Koreaboo:
Jennie teased her appearance at a Chanel event in Seoul. When Jennie arrived at the event, netizens were obsessed with the sexy and low-cut style of the outfit as the playsuit showed off the idol’s unreal proportions and visuals.
The Chanel Métiers d'Art Seoul show we’ve been tracking since last week is now a real event — Jennie attended, she wore the look, and the photos are out. That closes the loop. And Koreaboo’s headline is “exposed cleavage sparks shock,” which, okay, but Jennie literally said she can now interpret the house in her own way. The story isn’t the neckline. The story is that she showed up to a Métiers d'Art show and the Korean fan reaction was “one of her best looks ever.” Those are not the same article. The Dazed covers, the Vasaire ambassador moment, and now the runway show — all of it lands on this one set of photos, and the actual fan reaction on Theqoo was “superstar.” Koreaboo is writing a different piece than the one the evening gave us. All four members had a major solo moment this week — Jennie at Chanel Métiers d'Art, Rosé at Tiffany, Jisoo’s Singapore pop-up coming up, Lisa getting a full Femina fashion retrospective the morning after. That is not editorial coincidence. Somebody is timing this. Got thoughts on today’s BLACKPINK updates, a story idea we should chase, or a correction we need to make? Send it our way at blackpinkdailyfancast at lantern podcasts dot com.
You’ll find links to all of today’s stories in the show notes, so if something caught your ear, it’s easy to go a little deeper.
That’s BLACKPINK Daily Podcast for today. Thanks for listening, and we’ll be back next time. This is a Lantern Podcast.