Next year’s Met Gala theme to honor fashion mogul Karl Lagerfeld

The Met Gala, one of the most prominent sources of funding for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, has already been announced as the theme of the US’s greatest fashion events.

Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour gathered Paris Fashion Week insiders on Friday to reveal that the theme of next year’s Met Gala will be the work of the late Karl Lagerfeld.

In the year Taking place on the first Monday of May 2023, the most fashionable fundraiser in the world will be held at Chanel, Fendi and Chloe and It celebrates the work of the German-born couturier, who died in 2019 at 85.

As usual, the theme of the Met Gala is borrowed from the accompanying exhibition at the Met Costume Institute. It will be titled “Karl Lagerfeld: The Line of Beauty” and will explore the “language of style” of some 150 of his creations. Lagerfeld’s original paintings are also on display.

“The exhibition explores Lagerfeld’s complex methodology, tracing the evolution of his fashions from two-dimensional to three-dimensional,” said Andrew Bolton, Star Curator of the Costume Institute, in a statement. The fluid lines of his paintings express recurring aesthetic themes in fashion, uniting his designs for Balmain, Patou, Chloé, Fendi, Chanel and the eponymous label Karl Lagerfeld to create a diverse and masterful body of work that is unparalleled in fashion history.”

Presented in the museum’s Tisch Gallery, “Karl Lagerfeld’s Beauty Line” will be on view from May 5 to July 16, 2023.

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