Jennie’s 2026 has been a year full of firsts, from making history as the first K-pop artist to headline Roskilde to being the first Korean female solo artist to headline Lollapalooza, while also winning the inaugural Artist of the Year (Daesang) Award at the 40th Golden Disc Awards. Somewhere between all these milestones, she has turned each stage into a world of her own, each one equally commanding, unpredictable and unmistakably her.
With her debut studio album Ruby, Jennie invited us to get to know her on her own terms, weaving pop, R&B and hip-hop into an album in which vulnerability meets swagger, and nostalgia meets innovation. With the album establishing the soundtrack, her wardrobe, styled by Sam Woolf, has gone into overdrive, building the visual world around it.
Travelling through decades and aesthetics, something about a Jennie stage look makes it feel less like a costume and more like a character. In 2026, she has taken on quite the cast: Y2K cool girl, gothic heroine, American sweetheart, couture cowgirl, romantic military muse… the list goes on. With a whirlwind schedule taking the popstar from Hong Kong to New York and across Europe before concluding in Japan, her wardrobe was practically collecting passports along the way. Here is every solo stage outfit Jennie has worn in 2026 so far.
1. Golden Disc Awards
What’s more iconic than starting the year in a head-to-toe Chrome Hearts ensemble? For the occasion, Jennie worked with Jesse Jo Stark on a head-to-toe black leather stage look. The three-piece set featured a pointed-hem halter top, Chrome Hearts briefs layered under double-belted micro shorts, and a long leather coat adorned with red cross leather appliqués on the sleeves, adding a pop of colour that subtly nodded to Ruby. Jennie performed a medley of “Filter,” “Damn Right” and “Like JENNIE” in the hardware-heavy look, marking a major moment in her solo career. By the end of the night, Jennie had three more awards to add to her growing collection, including the inaugural Artist of the Year (Daesang), a Digital Song Bonsang and the Global Impact Award.
2. ComplexCon Hong Kong
By March, Jennie was serving Y2K attitude at ComplexCon Hong Kong. As the first female solo artist to headline Complex Live!, Jennie made her way onto the stage in custom Miss Sixty in a deep-plunge crop top with red lace-up accents and low-rise leather micro-shorts. She closed out the event with a ten-song set, including the live debut of her “Dracula” remix with Tame Impala, marking a memorable entrance to an unofficial global festival tour of her own.
3. Chanel 2026 Métiers d’art afterparty
At Chanel’s Métiers d’art afterparty, Jennie took the stage in a custom sequinned Chanel ensemble, pairing a backless, deep-cut bralette with a sparkling mini skirt and matching sequin jacket that put a glistening spin on Chanel’s signature tweed jacket. Between the glittering ensemble and an exclusive preview of an unreleased song, the afterparty felt, for a moment, less like a fashion event than a glimpse into Jennie’s next chapter.
4. Governors Ball
For her first time headlining a major festival in New York, Jennie turned to A$AP Rocky’s AWGE for something unmistakably New York. This collaboration resulted in a custom look built around American iconography, with a crystal-embellished stars-and-stripes bra top and a hybrid mini skirt fusing distressed denim with plaid flannel. A Yankees cap, MARLI diamonds and custom Stand Oil Boots tied the whole look together for her characterful debut in the Big Apple. Premiering three unreleased tracks, “Heaven”, “Little Less” and “Lock It Down”, Jennie turned this performance into one of those rare occasions when the outfit had to compete with the music, and yet it somehow held its ground.
5. Roskilde Festival
Jennie kept the momentum going in Europe, landing on Roskilde’s iconic Orange Stage in custom Lou de Bètoly as the first-ever K-pop artist to headline the festival. Leaning into the designer’s romantic-gothic sensibility, Jennie wore a lingerie-inspired lace bra top with sheer long sleeves and a matching lace jacket, paired with low-rise lace flared trousers. While her outfit embraced a delicate sensibility, she countered it with a striking 17-song set spanning Ruby and several unreleased tracks.
6. Open’er Festival
Swapping out gothic lace for rugged leather, Jennie captivated the Open’er stage in something much more cowboy-adjacent. Taken from an archival look by Dsquared2, a dramatic faux-fur and velvet coat was draped over a crystal-embellished bodysuit, logo briefs and micro-shorts, topped off with a silver-toned statement belt and western-inspired boots. Completing the ensemble with a baseball cap and oversized sunglasses, Jennie landed somewhere between rodeo and rock star, perfectly complementing her live debut of “Less than a Lover” and surprise performance of “One of the Girls” from the HBO hit show The Idol.
7. Mad Cool Festival
Just five days later, Jennie collided rugged Americana with archival couture elegance in an Elie Saab Spring 2003 haute couture look for the Spanish stage. Originally presented as an embellished floral corset with a sweeping chiffon train over metallic trousers, the archival look was reworked by Jennie with a more rebellious twist, swapping the trousers for gold hot pants, cinched with an oversized Western-inspired belt. She completed the look with a white shearling jacket from the brand’s Pre-Fall 2025 collection, bringing a distinctly rock-and-roll edge to the demure early-2000s couture.
8. Tame Impala – Deadbeat Tour Guest Appearance
Taking a brief detour from her festival run, Jennie joined Kevin Parker on stage in Boston for a performance of their chart-topping remix of “Dracula”. Naturally, the surprise appearance came with a look of its own: a vintage Betsey Johnson Spring/Summer 1999 lace two-piece in metallic pink and black. The gothic palette and lace details echoed the song’s own collision of psychedelic pop and dark romance.
9. Lollapalooza
As summer deepened, Jennie took on the role of a glamorous general in Ann Demeulemeester by Stefano Gallici, pairing an oyster-coloured cropped Napoleon jacket with a black leather bralette and loose trousers. Feathered knit headbands and trailing lace ribbons gave the outfit a touch of softness as she debuted two unreleased tracks, “Sweet Tooth” and “Fallen Angel”. This look echoed Ann Demeulemeester’s signature tension between military tailoring and romantic fragility, while its genre-blurring aesthetic perfectly mirrored the eclecticism of Ruby. Later, she switched into a sculpted cropped jacket with cut-outs, carrying the same sense of dramatic energy into the second half of her headline set.
10. Summer Sonic – Tokyo
For her first Summer Sonic performance in Tokyo, Jennie went digging through the Calvin Klein archives and came back with a reference to the ’90s. She opened the set with a reimagined version of Kate Moss’ look for the Spring 1993 collection, wearing the signature backward jeans with oversized back pockets and the CK leather patch brought to the front as the focal point. Styled with a minimal bra top, baggy denim waistcoat, CK beret and leather gloves, this ensemble gave us a crash course in 1990s nostalgia. The backward denim also echoed the styling of Kris Kross, whose flipped jeans became one of hip-hop’s most recognisable fashion gestures of the early ’90s. As the set went on, Jennie switched into a custom mini dress made from upcycled CK jeans waistbands, with a white bralette peeking through underneath. The exposed bralette added a touch of femininity before she performed her unreleased song “Lock It Down”.
11. Summer Sonic – Osaka
Marking the final stop of her unofficial festival tour in Osaka, Jennie traded nostalgia for something more romantic and graceful, a fitting visual finale to a summer of stages. Her custom Alexander McQueen look centred on a cropped Napoleon jacket with pearl-embroidered frogging. Beneath the fitted tailoring, a twisted satin bra top with delicate crossover straps was paired with McQueen’s signature bumsters, cut from ivory Sarabande lace hand-sprayed in blue and lilac, bringing a direct nod to McQueen’s archival codes. After a summer of leather, denim, lace and archival fashion, this McQueen look brought the season to a softer close: delicate, graceful and unmistakably Jennie.
