All about the theme of the Met Gala 2023: Karl Lagerfeld

The appointment with fashion hosting the New York Metropolitan Museum Every first Monday in May, the Met Galawill have as a protagonist in 2023 Carl Lagerfeldthe legendary German fashion designer who died in February 2019 at the age of 85 from cancer.

The news was revealed by the organizer, Anna Wintour, during Women’s Fashion Week in Paris because lagerfeld he spent much of his life in the French capital.

Carl Lagerfeld He will always be remembered for his unique way of being. His special style, with white hair in a ponytail, dark glasses and his classic black gloves, as well as his passion for fashion, made him a one of the most influential of the second half of the 20th century.

The “kaiser of fashion”as it was known Carl Lagerfeldwas the promoter of great actresses and models such as Claudia Scheffer, Duration delevign, Caroline of Monaco, Kai Geber or Penelope Cruzcurrently one of the brand’s ambassadors, so it wouldn’t be unusual to see these familiar faces at the Met Gala.

The Met Gala It is next May 1 and will serve as the starting gun for the exhibition ‘Karl Lagerfeld: a beauty line’which can be visited from May 5 to July 16, 2023.

In it you can see sketches of the designer and some examples of his creations, which are a clear example of the execution of the three dimensions in the fashion sector. For example, of the 5,000 – 10,000 pieces that the organization has collected from private collections, 150 from Chanel, fedi, chloe, Balmain Y patounext to the signature Karel lagerfeld. And it is that the designer managed to unite all companies with his mentality in a fruitful and unique way, unprecedented in the history of fashion.

The curator and creative advisor will be Amanda Harlekwho worked with lagerfeld during her time at Chanel. A very unique one will be configured as each piece of clothing is accompanied by its own sketch and from one video explanatory of Job interviews to the main managers of the workshop where it comes from. These videos are recorded by Loic PrigentFrench filmmaker who devised the documentary about Chanel for the 2005 exhibition.

However, his own lagerfeld was against fashion concept as art, therefore the presence of this exhibit in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is very curious. And that’s it for him fashion is supposed to be on the streeton the bodies of men and women, not in an art gallery.

In fact, the director of the Costume Institute assures that when they worked together on the exhibition of Chanel in 2005, the German designer was very cooperative, but little interested in the exhibition. Would Lagerfeld therefore be satisfied with his presence on the show?

Yes, not so much for the fact that he displayed his suits, but for the homage to fashion and the union in the same exhibition space of the companies that marked a before and after in his professional career. The main sponsor it’s Chanel, who also contributes significantly to Fendi. So is the brand Karel lagerfeld and Condé Nast will provide additional financial funding.

Carl Lagerfeld joins the shortlist of designers who were able to exhibit at this event as Cristobal Balenciaga in 1973, Christian Dior in 1996, Gianni Versace in 1997 or Alexander mcqueen in 2011.

Hosted by Vogue editor Anna Wintour, it has been held ever since 1948 at the Metropolitan Museum in New York to raise money for the Metropolitan Institute of Fashion. Every assistant has to pay something $30,000 to go to the appointment.

A theme is chosen each year dress code of all those present, the choices are truly original: ‘Fashion in an age of technology’ or ‘Fashion and the Catholic Imagination’are some examples. Now, in 2023, targeting Karel lagerfeld.

In the last edition of 2022, the theme was the New York’s golden age between 1870 and 1891convocation 300 famous under which we emphasize the appearance of Kim Kardashianwho appeared on the red carpet in the dress she wore Marilyn Monroe on the president’s birthday kennedy. Hence the International Council of Museums Since then, the use of iconic garments with historical value has been banned at the Met Gala.

He emigrated to Paris in 1953 and two years later, at just 22 years old, got a job at the fashion company Pierre Balmain, who won a jacket design competition. In 1958 he was appointed artistic director of jean patou and in 1964 he traveled to Rome to work for the company Titianfinding its way into brands such as chloe or valentine. Karel bearing fel got the call from fedi in 1967 to modernize his leather line and in the 1980s he would create his own perfume and clothing line.

Lagerfel’s raid is in channel in 1983 he managed to revive the brand, sunk after the death of founder Coco Chanel, keeping the style and adding a timeless character to it.