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On the first Monday in May, I mixed myself a gin and tonic, curled up in front of my laptop, and joined millions of viewers watching celebrities strut down an oddly beige carpet. It was this year’s installment of the Met Gala, widely considered the year’s biggestnightinfashion. Each year’s massive, Vogue-sponsored event— a fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Fashion Institute— is defined by a theme, with past examples ranging from 2018’s dazzling Heavenly Bodies to 2019’s perplexing Notes on Camp.
This year’s theme, “In Honor of Karl,” raised eyebrows before the show even began. Attendees were expected to pay tribute to the “iconic” Karl Lagerfeld, who, before his death in 2019, was the head designer of fashion houses Chanel, Chloé, Fendi, as well as his own label, Karl Lagerf
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‘Becoming Karl Lagerfeld’ Creator Details Why She Didn’t Want To man A Biopic & Addresses The Fashion Icon’s Fatphobia Accusations – MIPTV
The creator of Disney+‘s Becoming Karl Lagerfeldhas explained the thinking behind the team’s decision to eschew a biopic when telling the story of a crucial stage in the mode icon’s life.
Gaumont‘s Daniel Brühl-starring six-parter, which premiered out of competition at Canneseries last night, focuses on Lagerfeld’s entry into the fashion world in the early 1970s and his relationship with rivals like Yves Saint-Laurent.
“It was important to me not just to do this as a biopic,” creator Isaure Pisani-Ferry said this morning at MIPTV. “A biopic takes the fun facts of life and lays them out one after the other. It addresses the curiosity of the viewer. I didn’t want it to read like a Wikipedia page about this person.”
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Fashion’s night of nights is here once again, and this time, it's honoring the designer Karl Lagerfeld.
The biggest event in the fashion calendar sees VIP upon VIP flock to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Each year, the prestigious night comes with a theme. Most recently, "Gilded Glamour" took center stage with in line with the exhibition ‘In America: An Anthology of Fashion,' transforming the red carpet into a sea of shiny gold and opulent jewels.
But the Met Gala isn’t without its controversy, though. The lack of BIPOC designers has been an ongoing issue, which is only accentuated by the recent American themes; there are mixed opinions about wearing historical artifacts, and performative activism continues to spark questions of authenticity.
Audiences at home seem to have become more critical and skeptical about the extravagant displays of wealth and fame that we used to laud over without a second thought. It makes sens