On 9 September, at the Bulgari Serpenti Infinito event in New York City, Lisa’s appearance arrived as its own kind of argument: that the formal gown, routed through the right hands, can still carry genuine tension. The Lisa Bulgari Serpenti Infinito pairing produced one of the more considered looks of New York Fashion Week, and the details repay attention.
The Belik Black Lace Corset and What It Does
Lisa wore the Black Lace Corset from Belik‘s 2025 collection, a piece that works by holding two textures in productive opposition. The upper half is a sheer, off-the-shoulder corset: black lace over a nude lining, with vertical boning running down the torso to draw the silhouette into an hourglass. At the hips, high-cut peplum panels edged in scalloped lace keep the construction visible, almost architectural, while a cutout at each hip opens the structure just enough to read as deliberate rather than decorative. The sleeves, semi-sheer black lace, flare slightly at the wrist, a small gesture toward movement and away from severity.
The skirt is a different proposition entirely: sleek black fabric, floor-length, with an asymmetrical cut that sends a high thigh slit up one side while the opposite hem skims the floor formally. The combination of sheer corset above and close-fitted skirt below creates exactly the kind of architectural contrast the piece appears designed to produce. Dark romanticism is a phrase that gets applied to a great deal of evening wear, often loosely; here it names something more specific, the sense that the construction is in dialogue with itself.
Lisa at the Bulgari Serpenti Infinito Event: Shoes, Jewellery and the Full Picture
The shoes were Christian Louboutin Miss Z Degrastrass Perla pumps in black, pointed-toe heels with a mesh base embellished with strass and pearls, finished with classic nappa leather detailing and the brand’s signature red sole. Against the all-black dress, the red sole does what it always does at events of this register: it reads as punctuation, not decoration.
The jewellery, naturally, was Bulgari. A Serpenti necklace featuring red and blue gemstones sat centred along the collarbone, with matching earrings echoing the colour scheme. The choice to let the jewellery carry chromatic weight while the dress remained entirely monochrome is a kind of editorial logic: the gems become the event’s main colour story. For an appearance at a Bulgari event named after its Serpenti line, the alignment is exact rather than opportunistic.
Lisa wore her hair in a neat updo with full, blunt front bangs framing her face, a styling choice that kept the off-the-shoulder neckline uninterrupted and let the Serpenti necklace do its work uncontested. Her makeup, described as soft glam, featured winged eyeliner and a muted rosy-brown lip tone: the kind of finish that reads as minimal in photographs but holds up under the conditions of an event.
What makes the Lisa Bulgari Serpenti Infinito appearance worth examining beyond the obvious pleasures of a well-assembled look is the coherence of its logic. The Belik gown, with its visible boning and structural cutouts, is a piece that announces its own construction. The Bulgari jewellery, carrying the event’s iconography literally on the body, completes a kind of dressed argument about fashion and occasion as a single continuous text. The shoes, in their own quiet way, sign the look from below.
NYFW has its share of appearances that function primarily as image events, celebrity presence as brand adjacency and little more. This one held together as a dressed idea, and that is the less common thing.
