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Jennie Stuns in 1999 Vintage Betsey Johnson Dress With a Gothic Romantic Look

Jennie posted a set of styled photos on July 31 wearing a sheer, lace-detailed dress from Betsey Johnson's 1999 spring/summer collection, pairing the vintage look with heavy smoky makeup for a gothic romantic aesthetic. Around the same time, the BLACKPINK member turned up as a surprise guest at a Tame Impala concert in Boston, performing their collaboration 'Dracula' live for the first time together.

By Ha-Rin SongAugust 3, 20262 min read
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Jennie Stuns in 1999 Vintage Betsey Johnson Dress With a Gothic Romantic Look
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Jennie rang out July with two back-to-back moments that put her all over timelines: a striking fashion post and an unannounced concert appearance on the same day.

On July 31, the BLACKPINK member uploaded several photos to social media without a caption, letting the look speak for itself. The images show her in a sheer mesh dress with lace detailing, styled with heavy smoky makeup to land somewhere between old-school rock and gothic romance. She posed with the fabric spread wide to show the texture, then shifted to a seated position to show off the silhouette, clearly comfortable with the camera.

The dress is the specific kind of find that fashion accounts will be tagging for a while: a 1999 spring/summer Betsey Johnson vintage piece, making it a quarter-century old. Betsey Johnson's late-1990s output leaned hard into lingerie-inspired silhouettes and maximalist lace, and this dress lands exactly in that wheelhouse. Wearing a piece that old as a deliberate style choice rather than a costume reads as considered, not nostalgic.

Later that same day, Jennie surfaced at a Tame Impala concert in Boston as a surprise guest, taking the stage to perform Dracula, their recorded collaboration, in its first-ever live joint performance. The appearance was unannounced and confirmed what had been building since the track dropped: the two acts have enough of a working relationship to show up in each other's sets.

Jennie has been one of the more active BLACKPINK members on the solo front in recent months, and the Boston appearance in particular suggests the Tame Impala collaboration is more than a one-off single. Whether that leads to more live dates together is worth watching.

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