Anna Wintour paid tribute to Karl Lagerfeld ahead of the 2023 Met Gala.
In an article for the May 2023 issue of US Vogue, the editor-in-chief opened up about her experiences with the enigmatic fashion designer who died at the age of 85 in 2019, who will be honored at a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York next month.
“(Lagerfeld) was a designer who ate attention but also led an intense private life. He was a cultured intellectual who loved the heady lights of popular culture, she said. His desk was filled with books and paper, but he always had the latest technology at his fingertips. And of course he said that fashion doesn’t belong in a museum, it should look to the future, not be relegated to history. »
Dua Lipa, Penélope Cruz, Michaela Coel and Roger Federer will co-host the Met Gala alongside Anna Wintour on May 1. The event will coincide with the opening of the Costume Institute’s exhibition centered on the work of Karl Lagerfeld, which will be titled Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty, and will run from May 5 to July 16.
“A tribute to Karl feels like a tribute to life itself, a celebration in its purest form. We all miss him so much,” added Anna Wintour.
