The Met's next exhibition will be dedicated to Karl Lagerfeld: Sources
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Spring 2023 exhibition will be dedicated to the late Karl Lagerfeld, our sources said.
The museum is holding a press presentation on Friday in the middle of Paris Fashion Week at an as-yet-undisclosed location location.
Andrew Bolton, Wendy Yu curator in charge at the Costume Institute, and Anna Wintour — main content from Condé Nast executive, global editorial director of Vogue and a Met administrator - are expected to host the gathering.
WWD announced on August 1, 2019 that a Karl Lagerfeld retrospective was in the works and planned for 2022. However, the coronavirus pandemic has impacted the museum's exhibition schedule.
Related GalleriesIt is understood that the three brands most closely associated with the German designer during his extraordinary career — Chanel, Fendi and Karl Lagerfeld - are among the sponsors of the upcoming exhibition.
Additional details could not be learned immediately. A Met spokesperson postponed comment until after Friday's event.
Lagerfeld, who died in February 2019 at age 85, had a long history with the Met, featuring his last Métiers d'Art for Chanel show, on the Egyptian theme, in his Temple of Dendur in December 2018.
Chanel, of which Lagerfeld was the couturier for 36 years, has been the subject of great exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2005.
More than a designer, Lagerfeld was a fashion brain, one of the most prolific, admired and multi-talented fashion figures of the modern era, credited with establishing the modern model to revive and enliven heritage brands.
Polyglot with photographic memory and extensive knowledge of history, philosophy, art and popular culture, Lagerfeld ran his own publishing house and bookstore, 7L. He was also an accomplished photographer, and towards the end of his career he began making films to accompany certain fashion shows.
"Fashion and what it is now is like the life of an athlete . It's fine with me, I'm used to it. Appetite comes from eating," he told WWD in 2008. most interested."
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Spring 2023 exhibition will be dedicated to the late Karl Lagerfeld, our sources said.
The museum is holding a press presentation on Friday in the middle of Paris Fashion Week at an as-yet-undisclosed location location.
Andrew Bolton, Wendy Yu curator in charge at the Costume Institute, and Anna Wintour — main content from Condé Nast executive, global editorial director of Vogue and a Met administrator - are expected to host the gathering.
WWD announced on August 1, 2019 that a Karl Lagerfeld retrospective was in the works and planned for 2022. However, the coronavirus pandemic has impacted the museum's exhibition schedule.
Related GalleriesIt is understood that the three brands most closely associated with the German designer during his extraordinary career — Chanel, Fendi and Karl Lagerfeld - are among the sponsors of the upcoming exhibition.
Additional details could not be learned immediately. A Met spokesperson postponed comment until after Friday's event.
Lagerfeld, who died in February 2019 at age 85, had a long history with the Met, featuring his last Métiers d'Art for Chanel show, on the Egyptian theme, in his Temple of Dendur in December 2018.
Chanel, of which Lagerfeld was the couturier for 36 years, has been the subject of great exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2005.
More than a designer, Lagerfeld was a fashion brain, one of the most prolific, admired and multi-talented fashion figures of the modern era, credited with establishing the modern model to revive and enliven heritage brands.
Polyglot with photographic memory and extensive knowledge of history, philosophy, art and popular culture, Lagerfeld ran his own publishing house and bookstore, 7L. He was also an accomplished photographer, and towards the end of his career he began making films to accompany certain fashion shows.
"Fashion and what it is now is like the life of an athlete . It's fine with me, I'm used to it. Appetite comes from eating," he told WWD in 2008. most interested."
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