The K-pop star makes rubber boots work thanks to a styling trick borrowed from ‘60s Space Age fashion
From pom-pom dresses to the colour Kelly green, the members of Blackpink have a knack for pulling off what most of us wouldn’t dare to wear in broad daylight. Jennie is no exception.
This week, the Chanel ambassador made a style decision that Coco Chanel herself would have gasped at: she wore Crocs. To be exact, the Crocs Boots, made in collaboration with Balenciaga, from the brand’s Spring/Summer 2022 collection.
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With their round toe and rubber construction, Jennie’s choice of footwear may have been readily overlooked if it was purely practical. But the singer wore the waterproof, wet-weather-friendly shoes indoors, on what seemed to be a sunny day. In other words, the Crocs were an aesthetic decision.
And it worked out, especially because Jennie styled them with Courrèges’ Fall/Winter 2021 Workwear Dress, a modern-day version of the French fashion brand’s archival trapeze dress. In the ‘60s, the dress represented the future; it was what designer André Courrèges imagined women would wear once the Space Age finally arrived, together with his signature go-go boots.
