Over 2,000 shoppable items from KarlLagerfeld’s tenures at Jean Patou, Fendi, Chloé, and Chanel were on showcase at What Goes Around Comes Around’s Karl Lagerfeld retrospective.
A troupe of mannequins presided over party guests during last night’s celebration at What Goes Around Comes Around’s Wooster Street atelier in Soho. Sporting layers of pearls, gold chains, leather, bouclé, and, of course, many, many logos, they were unmistakably plucked from Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel oeuvre. Among them: a peach skirt suit that debuted on the runway in the spring/summer 1990 haute couture show, worn by Helena Christensen.
Christensen herself, who fronts a campaign for the blue-chip vintage purveyor displaying many of the wares, was also on hand to host the festivities. “I spent a lot of time with Karl, more than any other designer in my career, and he absolutely started my career,” she told.
The peach ensemble is just one of over 2,000 items from Lagerfeld’s tenures at Jean Patou, Fendi, Chloé, and Chanel that were amassed during a 6-month “global mission" to find the best existing specimens of Lagerfeld’s work.
The pièce de résistance? Another skirt suit with a matching fringed chapeau, gloves, and bag, all rendered in a glittering plaid bouclé from Lagerfeld’s fall/winter 1991 Chanel couture collection. “At the twelfth hour, we came up with six couture sets,” the shop’s co-founder, Gerard Malone, recalled. “The truth is, items like these are not out there. They’re in closets because people don’t want to get rid of them.
Also joining in on the festivities, which saw guests traipsing through with cheeky to-go containers filled with chips topped with caviar from a three-kilo tin courtesy of CaviAir’s Ariel Arce, were Kate Moss, Kendall Jenner, Michaela Coel, and Rita Ora; all of whom gamely posed for photos before perusing the shelves and racks. It will come as no surprise if we see these items on the steps of The Met come Monday night.
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