Designer Karl Lagerfeld said many provocative things during a career that lasted more than half a century. But the new spring fashion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, launched
Designer Karl Lagerfeld said many provocative things during a career that lasted more than half a century. But the new spring fashion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, launched by Monday’s splashy Met Gala, focuses on Lagerfeld’s work, not his words. The gallery walls are built to embody the essential contradiction, or duality, in Lagerfeld’s style and persona, a series of curves and straight lines. Masterminded by curator Andrew Bolton, the show is large in scope but also intricately detailed, featuring not only spectacular garments but novelty objects like a recreation of Lagerfeld’s cluttered desk, piled with books, magazines, sketching pencils and his always-present glass of Diet Coke.
Seven words from Karl Lagerfeld adorn a doorway at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s sumptuous new exhibit honoring the late, legendary designer: “Fashion does not belong in a museum.”