Courtesy of Fendi
Lisa brought Tyrian purple to life in beaded Fendi at Blackpink’s Barcelona tour stop.
Last week in Barcelona, during the European leg of Blackpink’s record-breaking Deadline World Tour, which has seen the group become the first female K-pop act to headline stadiums from Goyang to Wembley, Lisa stepped into the spotlight at the Estadi Olímpic wearing a custom Fendi ensemble that commanded the stage.
The look began with a form-fitting bodysuit with cut-out side panels, densely embroidered with microscopic glass beads, crystals, and sequins, each one catching and refracting the light in flashes of liquid brilliance. Over it, she wore voluminous parachute pants, their billowing silhouette nodding to MC Hammer’s swagger, yet cut with a feminine precision that bridged the codes of streetwear and the unstoppable force of K-pop performance.
What truly arrested the eye was the colour, a deep, intoxicating purple that defied simple labels. Some might call it plum, others mulberry or jam, but to the discerning eye it was unmistakably Tyrian purple, the imperial dye whose story stretches back millennia. In the ancient Mediterranean, Tyrian purple was more valuable than gold, painstakingly extracted from the spiny murex sea snail, thousands of which were needed for a single gram. The result was a colour that never faded, shifting subtly with the light, a living pigment that carried the weight of empires. In Rome, it lined the togas of emperors and the highest senators, while in Byzantium it was the guarded signature of the imperial court.
On stage, Lisa wore it not as a relic of exclusivity but as a modern declaration of power, grounded with a pair of Rombaut’s Boccaccio II boots, crafted from plant-based materials and designed with the same architectural boldness as her Fendi look. The skintight bodysuit and hammer pants transformed antiquity’s most storied shade into something made for movement and music. As she crossed the stage before a roaring crowd, the violet deepened and brightened like the silks of an emperor’s procession, yet felt entirely of this moment, history distilled into couture and royalty reimagined as a pop star reigning before a global audience.
