The most awaited event in the fashion world announced its theme for the next year, “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty.”
The Met Gala is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year on the first Monday of May.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Spring 2024 Costume Institute Exhibition, which follows the gala, of the “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty” will be exhibited in the museum from 5th May 2024 to 16th July 2024.
This year the Met Gala has decided to honour one of the most trailblazing designers in the history of the fashion industry who died in February 2019 at the age of 2019.
Lagerfeld is known for directing creative and innovative aspects in not one but several iconic fashion houses. Starting from Chloé and Fendi to Chanel. The German designer also had an eponymous label. He also worked for Balmain and Patou.
He was known for his white hair and detachable collars along with his dark sunglasses and fingerless gloves.
He made his design journey in the fashion world in the 1950s and his last collection was launched in 2019 for Chanel with a snowy mountain village backdrop.
The Met Gala is an invitation-only event and the invites are sent to all the noteworthy celebrities and media personalities from all over the world.
Situated in New York, the attending celebrities come to the museum dressed as per the theme of the year.
Inside the Met Gala Exhibition 2024
Max Hollien of the Met announced in a press release, “This immersive exhibition will unpack his singular artistic practice, inviting the public to experience an essential part of Lagerfeld’s boundless imagination and passion for innovation.”
The Met Gala is reportedly going to exhibit around 150 iconic pieces made by Lagerfeld himself. These will be curated from all the luxury fashion houses he was creative director at and also from his label, Karl Lagerfeld.
The event will be funded mostly by Chanel but Fendi, Condé Nast, and Karl Lagerfeld’s label will also be adding some funds.
Video interviews with the premiers who Lagerfeld worked with will also be on display so that people could take a deep dive into the true essence of Karl Lagerfeld.
The exhibition will also showcase exclusive Lagerfeld sketches.
“He would sketch everything. He would always say that he could draw before he could talk or walk. In many ways it was his primary form of communication, whether he was delivering them by fax machine or iPhone,” Andrew Bolton was quoted as saying.
“So at its heart, the exhibition will look at the evolution of Karl’s two-dimensional drawings into three-dimensional garments,” he further commented. Head curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bolten has been given the task to bring the exhibition to life.
Although a regular attendee of the Met Gala, from the Seventh on Sale Benefit in 1991 to Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty in 2011 and then the Chanel exhibition in 2005.
Karl reportedly believed that fashion didn’t belong in a museum but on the streets. He believed fashion was not art but something that should be worn by people.
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