(1 May 2023)
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1. Various of Karl Lagerfeld exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
HEADLINE: Lagerfeld highlights Met Gala exhibition
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Bolton, Curator Karl Lagerfeld Exhibit: ++OVERLAID WITH CUTAWAYS OF EXHIBITION++
"I very much wanted to focus on the work so called the designer rather than his words or the man. That's where I wanted to start off from was yeah, his design output. But it was intimidating because, as you said, he had a 65 year career in comparable in fashion, and he also worked for four different houses. Eventually it was Chloe, it was Chanel, it was his own label, it was Fendi. But before that Balmain and Patou and all of the other sort of freelance work that he does and a huge body of work. But, but what I wanted to do was to focus on these through lines, these sort of lines of be in the world that in a way transcend all of the different houses that he worked for. So by the end of the exhibition, you got a very strong sense of who he was as a as a person through the sort of through the work that he produced over the period of time. But these consistencies throughout his life. So for the present, his duality is its contradictions, because Karl was very contradictory and very controversial figure"
3. Various of Karl Lagerfeld exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Bolton, Curator Karl Lagerfeld Exhibit: ++OVERLAID WITH CUTAWAYS OF EXHIBITION++
"We all have this sort of image of Karl the black and white uniform, the ponytail, how the sunglasses, the gloves, the cat. And he deliberately put this sort of image out to the world as a way of sort of pushing them away. He was a sort of like a way, almost like a cloak of invisibility. It was a way of him being sort of incognito on the world stage. But the a true Karl, I feel was the work. So I want to be able to sort of like go through the exhibition, get into the true Karl to the work, his works. And then at the end, you're confronted with the Karl that we all know, the sort of the man, the myth that he created a rare moment of candor where he's laughing and he's like this little boy again. So he's in this little echo chamber, this room where he's sort of laughing on an iPhone with 80 iPhones around him, all syncs to a particular ”Karlism” that he says over the years. So you end with Karl the Man, the myth. But hopefully people will get to know him differently through the works."
5. Various of exhibit
STORYLINE:
Seven words from Karl Lagerfeld adorn a doorway at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s sumptuous new exhibit honoring the late, legendary designer: “Fashion does not belong in a museum.”
Andrew Bolton, who masterminds the New York museum’s blockbuster Costume Institute shows each year, said his goal for the exhibit was to highlight the incredible work of Lagerfeld, not the outsized character that Lagerfeld presented to the public.
“Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty,” is a lavish, loving tribute to the hugely prolific career of German-born Lagerfeld, who died in 2019 at 85 after more than a half-century of designing that left a deep mark on luxury fashion, especially at Chanel, but also at Fendi, at his own eponymous label, and elsewhere.
Set in 14 galleries, the show’s very walls have been constructed to embody the essential contradiction, or duality, in Lagerfeld’s style and persona — a series of curved and straight lines.
What the exhibit does not do, purposely, is focus on Lagerfeld’s words — despite that quote on the doorway.
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