2023 Met Gala theme revealed: Exhibit to honor designer who said ‘fashion is not art’
nypost.comVogue noted, Lagerfeld often said fashion did not belong in a museum, but was meant for wearing.“Karl never tired of telling me that fashion did not belong in a museum,” Costume Institute’s Wendy Yu Curator in Charge, Andrew Bolton, told the magazine.
When we worked on the Chanel show together he was incredibly generous in what he lent, but he was completely disinterested in the exhibition itself!
He would say ‘fashion is not art — fashion belongs on the street, on women’s bodies, on men’s bodies.’”The snazzy and swanky bash will bring together wealth, fashion, A-list stars, viral moments and designers for one night only in 2023.Products from Lagerfeld’s tenures as creative director of Fendi, Chloé and Chanel will be displayed.
Items from his gigs at Balmain and Patou as well as creations from his own namesake label will also be shown.Many of the late German designer’s sketches will be presented in the show as well.Bolton noted how “fascinated” he was by how the controversial creator would communicate with his design assistants simply by drawings.“Every single design in his life was a sketch,” Bolton told CNN recently. “And when I saw the drawings, I thought, ‘These are so charming, so whimsical, so impressionistic.'”“But what I didn’t realize was that they contained really precise information — about a shoulder line or the length of a sleeve.
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