K-pop stars are ruling the roost. But you would be surprised to know that there wasn't a single K-Pop idol so far wo walked the runway at New York Fashion Week. And now NCT's Lee Jeno has created history by becoming the first one to do that at the ongoing NYFW for designer Peter Do.
"It was a natural choice to have Jeno open the show," the designer wrote in his press release. “Jeno embodies the Peter Do man – multifaceted, confident, and a trailblazer," he added.
Lee Jeno shared a series of pictures from backstage on his Instagram profile and his legion of fans were pouring in wishes for the K-pop idol.
Jeno stormed the ramp with utter elan and he looked like a pro.
The designer titled his collection as time and wrote a long letter which read, "Hey, remember how we would tear through life with this desperate urgency, like we were hurtling towards it all because there was no way it would wait for us? God, we were giddy. The conviction was stigmata levels wasn’t it? It never occurred to me that we would fail. Of course we wouldn’t always win, we’re not machines, but it never dawned on me that we wouldn’t get there in the end, not ever. We were gonna be huge. But it’s so funny how life is short but interminably long. Thursdays especially for me, strangely. When my dad died — dad’s have a tendency of doing that don’t they? — it all happened so fast but the actual dying bit, the crossing over, felt like matrix bullet time or even Zeno’s paradox, it was the time splitting, then splitting, splitting splitting splitting forever and honestly, and this will make me sound old but I thought if the rest of my life felt this infinite I couldn’t tolerate it. I absolutely couldn’t stand it. And then I thought, and this is the bit I wanted to tell you, is that what if we lived here? Right here. How luxurious could that be? I’d look at the sky more. Walk as slowly, or as annoyingly as Uni, the way she has to smell everything, every flower, puddle, grass patch, as if it’s all new. I would look into my friends eyes, my family’s eyes, your eyes, my own eyes, and feel so lucky. Maybe not even luck — grace. There’s that thing of how you can’t earn grace. You don’t get less because you’re undeserving and you can’t manipulate it for more. It’s just there infinite but discernible amounts and it carries you a little while when you can’t run anymore. Our favorite Ocean Vuong once signed my book, “Thank you for being”, that was it. I didn’t have to do anything else. Ugh, how good is that? It’s kind of permission really isn’t it ?
I miss you. "
