Lisa’s Coachella 2025 Excessive-tech Outfits: Designer Reveals Inspirations

Lisa, the Thai celebrity generally known as one of many members of Blackpink and for her work in “The White Lotus,” carried out solo on the primary evening of Coachella. This yr, the singer introduced futuristic and otherworldly inspirations to the stage with the assistance of her stylist Brett Alan Nelson and designer Asher Levine.

Levine, recognized for working with lab-grown leathers and creating high-tech outfits, was invited by Lisa and Nelson to create two completely different appears for her efficiency: the primary, worn throughout her opening act, evoked anime villains, whereas bioluminescent organisms and translucent bugs impressed the second.

“For the villain, the references have been anime cyborgs — full muscle fits and oversize jackets. I added my spin by fusing that concept with a reptilian, anatomical aesthetic,” Levine instructed WWD by way of e-mail. “We constructed a sculpted reptile pores and skin swimsuit and breastplate utterly customized for her. It was superb to see Lisa embrace the course I pitched — it pushed the character additional into this advanced, highly effective alien creature.”

The re-examination featured a glowing tendril swimsuit with glass-like petals and an undersuit that maps colourful, vein-like traces alongside the physique. “Each appears discover transformation — one cold-blooded and commanding, the opposite ethereal and light-weight. That stability is what excites me,” Levine mentioned.

To create each outfits, Levine labored “at lightning pace” in his atelier in Los Angeles along with his vogue, sculpture and tech groups. “That’s how we’re capable of produce such intricate, high-tech items so rapidly. And sure, additionally embedded wi-fi illumination. That’s been a language of mine for years. I see it as a type of wearable alchemy — remodeling gentle, texture and kind into one thing alive,” he mentioned.

Levine’s work is rooted in biomorphism, anatomy and energy. “I design for these evolving into their subsequent self — into one thing alien, one thing different,” he mentioned. Whereas collaborating with Lisa, he centered on creating one thing that would resist stage lights, warmth and choreography. “My work lives in that intersection: couture and tech and motion. It’s about making new age exotics not simply visible, however wearable. Every thing has to learn as magic, but in addition transfer like second pores and skin. Lisa wanted to really feel highly effective, fluid and utterly herself inside these alien varieties — and that’s precisely what we gave her.”

Lisa carried out Friday at Coachella on the Sahara Stage. She is going to return to the identical stage on April 18 at 7:45 p.m. PST. This marks her second solo look at Coachella, following her group’s headline efficiency in 2023.