BLACKPINK's Lisa graced the cover of Allure Korea's June 2020 issue, where she opened up about embracing and loving herself, as well as the current state of the world exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.
Bearing in mind how she is one of the century's biggest highly-regarded and influential K-pop idols, the interviewer wished to learn how she characterizes and perceives "self-love," to which the female superstar said, "I love myself too. I just don't want to lose myself as well."
She clarified that something intrinsic about her vibrant and cheerful attitude was that she was clearly born, raised, and blessed with!
Although highlighting the significance of respecting and loving oneself, she also acknowledged her fans and all who expressed support and encouragement for who she really is today, "I'm so glad that a huge number of people just absolutely adore and love me for who I am."
Lisa also remarked on how she's not been capable of performing due to the coronavirus pandemic in front of her supporters for the last few months. However, she has made the decision to consider the unavoidable circumstance and plan for the day she's reconciled with her BLINKs!
"There is nothing that we can really do about it [the lockdout] because it is for the protection and health of all of us. I spend most of my time being cautious, too," she said.
"It's really disappointing that we can not reach our fans directly, but I'm striving diligently to plan for the day I can give them an incredible appearance," she went on.
The June issue of the magazine, which has Lisa's entire interview, is available offline and online shops. Allure Korea will also release online content in the coming days, starring Lisa herself!
LALISA MANOBAN's IMPACT AND INFLUENCE TO SOCIETY
Lisa became one of the most-followed K-pop sensations on Instagram in April 2019, with at the time 17.4 million followers.
While Lisa managed to land her biggest single magazine cover for the May 2019 edition of Harper's Bazaar Thailand, MEI, a Harper's Bazaar distributor announced that they managed to sell out all 120,000 hard copies in storage.
It has been estimated that 30,000 copies are usually produced on average, and most well-known personalities have 60,000 hard copies on record. Following the selling of 120,000 prints, however, request from the public has still not been met.
Following Lisa's presence at the Celine Fashion Show for Men's Spring Summer 2020 collections in Paris, France, throughout Paris Fashion Week, Lyst announced that on June 28, 2019, worldwide searches for Celine's Triomphe bag leaped 66 percent, after publishing a style image on her social networking sites, thus attracting public attention.
She became their brand ambassador in China on March 21, 2018, via her role as a model for the South Korean cosmetics company Moonshot. On July 25, 2019, Lisa became the label representative and promoter solely for the latest brand collection released in Thailand, six of which have the signature of Manoban as part of the wrapping.
Lisa launched her first single endorsement contract on March 28, 2019, with AIS Thailand, Thailand 's biggest GSM cell phone provider. Lisa was made AIS's highest paying company presenter. In addition, her marketing initiative became Thailand's highest-rated commercial.
On May 8, the BLACKPINK's "dance machine" has been confirmed by P&G China as their new brand spokesperson for Downy. Currently, she is a dance mentor in the Chinese reality show "Youth With You."
