The sartorial legacy of prolific fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld is on full display at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Staged within the museum’s Tisch Galleries in an exhibition designed by Tadao Ando, ‘Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty’ (5 May – 16 July, 2023) offers a view into the designer’s multifaceted creative process with over 200 objects, original sketches, video interviews with the atelier craftspeople he collaborated with, alongside captivating recreations of his desk and modes of working. Named after Lagerfeld’s love of duality, and his embrace of both the straight and serpentine line, as well as other opposing forces, the definitive exhibition highlights the breadth of the designer’s influences, whether art, film, music, literature or philosophy.
