Lagerfeld, a champion surfer of the zeitgeist through his lifetime, has been posthumously beached by a cultural shift. Would we have seen the man who said sweatpants were a sign of having given up on life embrace them in the pandemic, I wonder?” “But I also know that I would be curious about his take on today’s world. “If Karl was at the peak of his career in today’s landscape he would be called out for some of the problematic comments he made, and rightly so,” said Hattie Brett, the editor-in-chief of Grazia. Karl Lagerfeld with, from left, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Claudia Schiffer in 1995. Lagerfeld famously said of Princess Diana that “she was pretty and sweet, but she was stupid” and described Adele as “a little too fat”. I’d much rather see that than lots of black-and-white Karl lookalikes.”īolton’s exhibition wrestles with how to celebrate a genius with a spiky legacy. “I would love to see lots of beautiful vintage pieces – Chanel, Chloe, Fendi, maybe even a bit of Patou if they can find it. Some commentators have predicted a sea of sunglasses, fans and powdered wigs in a “night of the thousand Karls”, but Andrew Bolton, the curator of the exhibition, hopes they will be proved wrong. The night celebrates the opening of Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty, a sweeping retrospective of the 65-year career of the designer, who died in 2019. The dress code for this year’s Met Gala, hosted by Anna Wintour, Michaela Coel, Penélope Cruz, Roger Federer and Dua Lipa, is “dress in honour of Karl”.
This Monday evening the two will come together in what is set to be a perfect storm of red-carpet theatrics on the steps of New York’s Metropolitan Museum.
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