The controversial designer bridged the gap between fashion and pop culture—so it's fitting that he's the theme of the 2023 Met Gala.
Karl Lagerfeld was a complicated, shape-shifting cultural icon. He was more famous than many of his famous devotees. He delighted as easily as he offended. Among younger fashion fans, he is heavily criticized for the blithe way in which he discussed women and their bodies, but he is simultaneously responsible for fashion as they know it.
As a teenager, Lagerfeld ran to Paris, entered a fashion competition now known as the International Woolmark Prize with no formal education in 1954, and won for his coat designs. He climbed the ranks as an apprentice in couture with Pierre Balmain and then Jean Patou before transitioning into the 1960s ready-to-wear scene. He began to work at Fendi in 1965, Chanel in 1983, and launched his own line one year later in 1984.
, where he chronicled how he lost 92 pounds with the help of Diet Coke. In 2014, Mattel made his likeness into a Barbie. Net-a-Porter sold $200,000 worth of the $200 dolls; current listings on Ebay go up to $3,500. The only thing he was adamant he was not was an artist.
Claudia Schiffer in Chanel’s fall 1993 show. Sofia Richie wore a version of this Lagerfeld-designed corset dress to her wedding.in a wedding that took the internet by storm this past week, she wore Chanel, a detail noted by everyone who obsessed over the South of France spectacle like it was a high-stakes sports extravaganza.
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