Metropolitan Museum of Art shares details on upcoming exhibition on Karl Lagerfeld
Knowing that May doesn't come soon enough for Karl Lagerfeld fans and Met Gala onlookers , the Metropolitan Museum of Art has shared more details about the Costume Institute's spring exhibition.
"Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty" will bow in the museum's Tisch Galleries on May 5 and until July 16. As its name suggests, the exhibition will trace the aesthetic and conceptual themes that continually surfaced in his collections from the 1950s until his death in 2019. Visitors are expected to gain a multi-dimensional understanding of the complex creativity of the late designer. . processes and collaborative relationships with the “workshop premieres”, the seamstresses who made her creations. The majority of the 150 garments on display will be accompanied by Lagerfeld's sketches.
Related GalleriesCostume Institute's Wendy Yu curator Andrew Bolton curates the exhibition with support from the curator partner Mellissa Huber. Lagerfeld's longtime confidante, Amanda Harlech, will act as a creative consultant. Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando, who first met Lagerfeld in 1996, is designing the exhibit. For a multimedia touch, director Loïc Prigent, who documented the designer's collections from 1997 to 2019, will produce the video content for the exhibition.
In addition to tracing the evolution of Lagerfeld's modes from two-dimensional to three-dimensional, he will show how "the flowing lines of his sketches found expression in recurring themes in his fashions, uniting his designs for Chanel, Chloé, Fendi, his eponymous label, Karl Lagerfeld and Patou, creating a diverse and prolific body of work unparalleled in the history of fashion. mode. Bolton said in a statement.
Support for this year's exhibition and Met Gala is provided by Chanel. Scheduled for May 1, this year's extravaganza is co-chaired by Michaela Coel, Penélope Cruz, Roger Federer, Dua Lipa and, as always, Anna Wintour, Condé Nast's Global Content Director.
"Major support" is also offered by Fendi, where the designer also worked for over 50 years, and additional funding will be made possible by Karl Lagerfeld and Condé Nast, according to a press release published Wednesday by The Met.
For die-hard Lagerfeld fans, a companion book "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty" will be published in Can. The tome will include new photographs by Julia Hetta alongside drawings by Lagerfeld as well as interviews with Lagerfeld's studio premieres at Chanel, Chloé, Fendi and the Karl Lagerfeld label. The reader will also find personal reflections on Wintour's designer, art historian Patrick Hourcade, Harlech and Ando.
Knowing that May doesn't come soon enough for Karl Lagerfeld fans and Met Gala onlookers , the Metropolitan Museum of Art has shared more details about the Costume Institute's spring exhibition.
"Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty" will bow in the museum's Tisch Galleries on May 5 and until July 16. As its name suggests, the exhibition will trace the aesthetic and conceptual themes that continually surfaced in his collections from the 1950s until his death in 2019. Visitors are expected to gain a multi-dimensional understanding of the complex creativity of the late designer. . processes and collaborative relationships with the “workshop premieres”, the seamstresses who made her creations. The majority of the 150 garments on display will be accompanied by Lagerfeld's sketches.
Related GalleriesCostume Institute's Wendy Yu curator Andrew Bolton curates the exhibition with support from the curator partner Mellissa Huber. Lagerfeld's longtime confidante, Amanda Harlech, will act as a creative consultant. Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando, who first met Lagerfeld in 1996, is designing the exhibit. For a multimedia touch, director Loïc Prigent, who documented the designer's collections from 1997 to 2019, will produce the video content for the exhibition.
In addition to tracing the evolution of Lagerfeld's modes from two-dimensional to three-dimensional, he will show how "the flowing lines of his sketches found expression in recurring themes in his fashions, uniting his designs for Chanel, Chloé, Fendi, his eponymous label, Karl Lagerfeld and Patou, creating a diverse and prolific body of work unparalleled in the history of fashion. mode. Bolton said in a statement.
Support for this year's exhibition and Met Gala is provided by Chanel. Scheduled for May 1, this year's extravaganza is co-chaired by Michaela Coel, Penélope Cruz, Roger Federer, Dua Lipa and, as always, Anna Wintour, Condé Nast's Global Content Director.
"Major support" is also offered by Fendi, where the designer also worked for over 50 years, and additional funding will be made possible by Karl Lagerfeld and Condé Nast, according to a press release published Wednesday by The Met.
For die-hard Lagerfeld fans, a companion book "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty" will be published in Can. The tome will include new photographs by Julia Hetta alongside drawings by Lagerfeld as well as interviews with Lagerfeld's studio premieres at Chanel, Chloé, Fendi and the Karl Lagerfeld label. The reader will also find personal reflections on Wintour's designer, art historian Patrick Hourcade, Harlech and Ando.
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