Met Gala to feature Karl Lagerfeld

Met Gala fans, we have a new theme. The theme of the Met Gala next year will be Karl Lagerfeld, according to the Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour on Friday.

The world's most fashionable fundraiser will celebrate the work of the German-born couturier who worked with Chanel, Fendi and Chloe on the first Monday in May 1, 2023, and died on January 1, 2019 at 85.

The Met Gala theme is borrowed from the accompanying exhibit at the Met's Costume Institute. It is called Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty and will gather some 150 of his creations to explore his stylistic language. Lagerfeld's original sketches will be on display.

The exhibition will explore Lagerfeld's complex working methodology, tracing the evolution of his fashions from the two dimensional to the three dimensional, said Andrew Bolton, the costume institute's star curator. The fluid lines of his sketches found expression in recurring aesthetic themes in his fashions, combining his designs for Balmain, Patou, Chloe, Fendi, Chanel and his eponymous label Karl Lagerfeld, creating a diverse and prolific body of work that is unmatched in the history of fashion. Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty will be on view from May 5 through July 16, 2023 in the Tisch Gallery.