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The Carnival of Venice continues for Karl Lagerfeld

Vita gazette – The fashion world is preparing to pay homage to Karl Lagerfeld, one of the legendary names, on May 1st. The theme of this year’s Met Gala, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art under the presidency of legendary Vogue editor Anna Wintour, is Karl Lagerfeld, whose exhibition will also be exhibited at the museum.

Organized and chaired by Anna Wintour since 1995, the Met Gala is known for being one of the quintessential celebrations of the fashion world as well as the event that inaugurates the opening of the Costume Institute’s annual fashion exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which usually coincides with the first Monday of May. The organization of the event has always respected this date every year since 2005, with the exception of 2020, when, due to Covid, the Met Gala was cancelled, and in 2021, when it was postponed to September for the same reason.

This year the Met Gala will take place on Monday, 1 May, obviously in New York, and various information has already been made official about the eagerly awaited day.

As known, the theme that the stars are invited to interpret on the Met Gala red carpet is regularly decided on the basis of the subject of the Metropolitan Museum exhibition, which is inaugurated on that occasion and then remains open for weeks. For this year’s edition it had actually already been decided some time ago that the theme of the event would be “in honour of Karl Lagerfeld.”, therefore a tribute to the late stylist and artist, considered one of the pillars of fashion. the Met’s prestigious annual retrospective will be dedicated to the historic German designer and entitled Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty. The exhibition focuses on drawing intended as the stylist’s primary mode of expression and communication, providing an exhibition with over 150 dresses made in 65 years of career, from 1954 to 2019.

Therefore, the numerous celebrities invited to the event will have an equally vast range of different materials, models, eras and styles from which to draw as a source of inspiration, to pay homage to and reinterpret the typical aesthetic codes and legendary creations of the designer. The host conductors of the Met Gala 2023 will be four women and a man: Penélope Cruz, Michaela Coel, Roger Federer, Dua Lipa and, of course, Anna Wintour, who will cover the role of official co-presidents of the evening.

“The Carnival of Venice goes on for me”

For many years, Karl Lagerfeld was the creative director of two compelling brands, Chanel and Fendi, but this was not his most tremendous success. His most outstanding achievement was himself; he managed to iconify himself, occasionally making fun of it: “I am a caricature of myself, I live with a mask, the Carnival of Venice goes on for me all the time,” he said.

After designing for many brands, such as Balmain, Jean Patou, Chloé, Charles Jourdan, Krizia, and Valentino, he drew an image of himself with white hair at a younger age. Then he lost 42 kilos in one year to wear the clothes of Hedi Slimane, whose designs he liked very much. What made him special was not only his creativity, but also his extremely well-established spirit of the times. When he became the creative director of Chanel at the age of 49, he took an outdated and outdated brand and turned it into a $10 billion brand that will never get old. For this, he first created the CC logo. He paved the way for many designers, from Tom Ford to Riccardo Tisci, to rise again within an established brand.

He worked every day until he was 85, saying, “If I don’t work, I die”. Moreover, he not only became the creative director of Chanel and Fendi, which have very different styles but also created the brands Karl Lagerfeld, KL and Karl. While doing this, he also came to the fore with his photographer identity and created collaborations for many brands. Undoubtedly, he was the first to see that collaborations would benefit other brands he worked with.

He made millions by opening an Instagram account for his beloved cat Choupette. 

“Today, too many people are obsessed with what they have done before and repeat themselves. However, you must forget what you did before and start from scratch every time.”

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