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How LISA Became a Four-Armed Work of Art at the 2026 Met Gala
Vogue’s backstage clip shows Robert Wun’s contraption being strapped to LISA’s back: two mannequin arms cast from a 3D scan that hold a veil and jewelry. She jokes about the weight and worries about tripping as the team fine-tunes the look before the Met Gala.
The Met Gala is built on spectacle, but even within that long history of theatricality, LISA’s four-armed entrance felt…extra. In a new Vogue behind-the-scenes clip posted the day after the Gala, the BLACKPINK rapper and solo star lets viewers sit in on the practical, slightly unnerving labor that turned a runaway concept into a carpet-ready costume.
The video, released May 5, 2026, documents LISA’s final fitting the day before the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute event on May 4. Robert Wun, who designed the look, worked with a team to attach two white, mannequin-like arms to a harness that LISA wore like a backpack. The appendages were cast from a 3D scan of her own body, right down to the slope of her wrists, and the crew spent minutes sliding bracelets and rings onto the fake fingers to see how jewelry would read from a distance.
“I am nervous for tomorrow, because my extra arms are really heavy,” LISA says in the clip. “He said it’s 1.8 kilo, but I don’t think so. I think it’s heavier than that — but I have to fight through it.”
There is an obvious practical gag here — more hands, more utility — but the result reads like a ritualized image. The extra limbs were not merely decorative: they supported a diaphanous white veil, lifting and framing the face-to-camera moments that make the Met carpet a sequence of still photographs and scrolling clips. On Monday night LISA walked that line between caricature and couture, letting the additional arms present and pause the veil for photographers while keeping her own steps cautious. “I don’t want to trip tomorrow!” she tells the Vogue crew, a small, human panic in a very staged costume world.
All four members of BLACKPINK attended the 2026 Gala, though LISA, JISOO, JENNIE, and ROSÉ opted to appear separately rather than as a group. For LISA, who has become as well-known for solo fashion moments as for her work with the group, this was a second Met turn and a deliberate answer to the evening’s theme, “Costume Art,” and the dress code “Fashion Is Art.” The look felt less like a red carpet stunt and more like a stop-motion study of posture and props: the harness constrained, the extra arms choreographed, every small gesture exaggerated for the cameras.
Fans watching the Vogue clip got the usual mix of admiration and mild alarm. There is something entertaining about seeing a pop star adapt to a cumbersome piece of art in real time: she jokes, she tests, the team adjusts straps, and the material gets pulled into place. That messy, human process is what made the finished image feel earned rather than simply viral-ready.
Watch the transformation below.
