(Paris) Karl Lagerfeld will be honored with a major retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2023 and his next Met Gala, a whimsical meeting of the biggest international stars, the organizers announced on Friday.
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In the midst of Fashion Week, the all-powerful editor-in-chief of vogue in the United States, Anna Wintour, appeared Friday among the friends of the couturier and other personalities gathered in the former photo studio of Lagerfeld, in Paris, to present the exhibition.
First international retrospective since his death in February 2019, Karl Lagerfeld, A Line of Beauty will be held from May 5 to July 16, 2023 at the Met and will trace his career from the 1950s to his last collection in 2019.
Intended to finance the Met’s fashion department (The Costume Institute), the flamboyant Met Gala, which traditionally coincides with the museum’s major annual exhibition, will be organized on 1er May in honor of the couturier with the ponytail and dark glasses, whose name is inseparable from the house of Chanel.
“Most of the approximately 150 creations exhibited will be accompanied by Lagerfeld’s sketches”, specify its organizers.
“From Fendi to Chanel to his own brands, his genius was to constantly renovate his goals, to always absorb new information without ever losing his course,” said Anna Wintour. “His career was full of paradoxes. Karl was the king of commerce, but also a great fashion intellectual, one of the most cultured people I have ever known. »
Born into a wealthy but strict family in Germany, Lagerfeld began his long career in Paris, where his friendship turned rivalry with Yves Saint-Laurent became legendary. His spectacular creations and shows for Chanel, Fendi and his own brand, as well as his strong personality, have deeply marked the fashion world.