![]() Starting in the mid-1960s, Lagerfeld left his mark on Chloé. The reproduced sketch, with odd notations and a spiky-haired model, is like a dreamscape version of the real thing. Something between cryptic office memos, meant for his indispensable head seamstresses, and apparent flights of fancy, these sketches, often in their original form, will be exhibited with the clothes they fostered.įor a Chanel 2005/06 collection, Lagerfeld designed a fantastical wedding dress covered with silk-and-feather camellias. It will also elevate to the status of applied art Lagerfeld’s remarkable sketches, which were key to his working life. Photo: Annie Leibovitz / Vogue /Trunk Archiveįorsaking chronology for what Andrew Bolton, the curator in charge of the Costume Institute, regards as an essayistic approach, the show will emphasise Lagerfeld’s “works rather than his words”. ![]() Karl Lagerfeld at work Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Met show will divide up Lagerfeld’s six-plus decades of fashion designs into Modernist-minimalist straight lines and romantic-historicist serpentines. ![]() The title and the organisation of the show refer to William Hogarth’s 18th-century treatise The Analysis of Beauty, which proposes a theory of aesthetics derived from an s-shaped line. Rather than getting at the man behind the myth, Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty considers the designer’s process. Now, just a few years after his death, the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will cover the highlights of that career. A dyed-in-the-wool self-mythologiser and prevaricator-who never managed to confirm key details about his German origins-he was the creative force behind four fashion houses, most notably Chanel. ![]() Born in Hamburg in 1933, he made his way to Paris in the 1950s to embark on an unparalleled career in high fashion that lasted until his death in 2019. The fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld may have been his own greatest creation. ![]()
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