Across the ARIRANG World Tour, BTS move between custom designer pieces, performance wear, and official merchandise, with each member bringing his own approach to the stage.
By Alegria Haro
BTS’ ARIRANG World Tour has given the group another setting for fashion. Across the Paris concerts at Stade de France, the seven members appeared in custom looks from Dior, Celine, Balenciaga, Gucci, Givenchy, and Louis Vuitton, with each wardrobe taking a different approach to stage dressing through leather, denim, tailoring, embroidery, and embellishment.
The Paris shows brought seven luxury houses into the BTS tour wardrobe, with each member appearing in a different designer look. Together, the clothes create a visual record of how BTS approaches fashion onstage, from sharply tailored pieces to leather, denim, embroidery, and embellished outerwear.
Jimin — Dior
Jimin’s Dior wardrobe moves between sharp tailoring, leather, and softer knitwear across the ARIRANG World Tour. For the Paris shows, one of his looks pairs a black wool notch-lapel jacket and matching vest with leather trousers, creating a clean silhouette that reads clearly from the stage while retaining the precision associated with Dior menswear.
A second Dior look takes a softer direction, built around an ivory cardigan with a white top and blue denim. The looser proportions and lighter palette change the effect completely, giving Jimin a more relaxed silhouette while keeping the look connected to the same polished wardrobe.
V — Celine
V took the stage in a custom Celine ensemble of black lambskin, with a cropped jacket and matching trousers covered in gold embroidery and studded detailing. The jacket’s structured cut and ornate finish give the look a distinctly military character, while the all-black palette keeps it sharp.
Another custom Celine look swaps the leather for a studded leopard-print velvet jacket, worn with dark washed denim featuring embroidered detailing. A printed silk scarf and Celine jewelry add further texture without competing with the jacket, which remains the focal point of the look.
Jung Kook — Balenciaga
Jung Kook took the stage in custom Balenciaga, beginning with a black leather coat and wide-leg trousers. The look draws on several house signatures, including multiple-belt trousers, motorcycle gloves, and a high-neck jacket finished with studs.
A second look takes Balenciaga in a more distressed direction. An oversized, studded denim jacket references the house’s Le City bag through its patchwork logo detailing, worn with a logo tie-dye T-shirt and loose denim trousers.
For another performance look, Jung Kook wore a boxy Balenciaga hoodie embroidered with the number “10” and paired it with black leather trousers. The number references 10 Avenue George V, the address of Balenciaga’s historic Paris boutique.
Jin — Gucci
Jin took the stage in a custom Gucci denim biker jacket covered in transparent crystals, paired with matching denim trousers and a white GG T-shirt. The all-over crystal detailing catches the light across the denim, turning a familiar biker silhouette into something distinctly made for the stage.
His second Gucci look shifts into black, pairing a sequin-embroidered long-sleeve T-shirt with crystal-covered denim trousers. Gucci jewelry and sunglasses complete the outfit, keeping the focus on the contrast between the sequins and the heavily embellished denim.
RM — Gucci
RM wore a custom Gucci green plaid cotton shirt detailed with crystals, layered over a white crystal tank top and paired with brown trousers. The combination of plaid, crystals, and warm-toned tailoring gives the look a more relaxed silhouette than the heavily embellished stagewear seen elsewhere in the lineup.
For his second look, RM went monochrome in a custom black leather bomber jacket and cargo pants, worn with a black silk jersey hoodie. Gucci sunglasses, gloves, and bracelets complete the outfit.
SUGA — Givenchy
SUGA wore custom Givenchy by Sarah Burton for the Paris stop of BTS’ ARIRANG World Tour, starting with a black leather look covered in intricate embroidery. The detailing runs across the jacket and trousers, giving the otherwise monochrome outfit its main point of texture. He finished both custom looks with Givenchy’s black Puffy Yard sneakers.
A second look keeps the same embroidered treatment but shifts into blue, with floral-style detailing worked across the jacket and trousers. The change in color gives the custom wardrobe a softer variation while keeping the embroidery at its center.
j-hope — Louis Vuitton
j-hope’s Louis Vuitton wardrobe begins with a black jacket hand-embroidered with a crocodile motif, paired with black leather trousers, an LV Initiales Monogram belt, LV Remix Combat boots, and LV Heritage Mask sunglasses. The embroidery gives the monochrome look its defining detail, with the leather pieces keeping the silhouette clean.
The most immediately striking look is a champagne-colored varsity jacket embellished with Swarovski crystals, worn with light-blue flared jeans. A brown LV Initiales Monogram floral belt, LV Remix Combat boots, and LV Lock sunglasses complete the look, balancing the sparkle of the jacket with the relaxed shape of the denim.
A third look returns to black with a long leather coat and pleated wool trousers, finished with LV Remix ankle boots, hand-embroidered crocodile-motif gloves, and LV Heritage sunglasses. The gloves echo the embroidery of the opening look while giving the final silhouette a more dramatic finish.
Louis Vuitton also reworked the champagne varsity jacket with beige pleated wool trousers for another sequence of the performance, replacing the denim while retaining the same crystal-embellished centerpiece.
Beyond the Designer Looks
The ARIRANG wardrobe extends beyond the custom pieces created for the stage. Official tour merchandise brings the visual language of the concerts into the audience, with member jerseys, T-shirts, hoodies, jackets, caps, and other pieces designed to be worn by fans themselves.
K-pop fashion also extends beyond the stage, from concert looks to airport outfits that fans follow between schedules.
The connection to the designer wardrobes also appears in the merchandise. Jung Kook, for example, has been photographed in a gray Balenciaga logo T-shirt featuring the house name in studs, paired with leather trousers and Balenciaga jewelry. The piece brings elements of Balenciaga’s visual language into a format that can exist beyond a single stage appearance.
Across ARIRANG, fashion operates on both sides of the stage. Custom Dior, Celine, Balenciaga, Gucci, Givenchy, and Louis Vuitton looks give each member a distinct visual identity, while the tour merchandise allows fans to carry pieces of that identity with them. Together, they form part of the visual record of the tour — from the clothes worn under stadium lights to what audiences wear back home.