New York Times Fashionさんのインスタグラム写真 - (New York Times FashionInstagram)「The Metropolitan Museum of Art is dedicating its 2023 Costume Institute show to Karl Lagerfeld, calling it, “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty,” which opens on Friday. It is a highly enjoyable, ultimately convincing argument from the Costume Institute’s curator in charge, Andrew Bolton, that when you strip away the controversies and the mythology, what you are left with is a pure expression of a great technical imagination combined with an omnivorous cultural curiosity. In Lagerfeld’s 65 years of work — including at Chanel, Fendi and Chloé — the designer produced over 10,000 pieces of clothing (at least that’s the number Bolton said he perused for the show). The advantage is that, in distilling them down to just over 200 garments, Bolton was free to focus on the most evocative pieces, writes chief fashion critic @vvfriedman. And they are almost all, indeed, dazzling. The bar is very high for one-person exhibitions — usually defined by names that changed the vocabulary of dress. There have only been 10 of them at the Met in the last 50 years. Generally, the Costume Institute has focused on thematic displays. And even beyond the questions of Lagerfeld’s actual products, there were the issues of his public statements, a number of which were fatphobic, Islamophobic, racist and sexist. Indeed, the concept around which the exhibition itself is built — a narrative of dualities — implies the paradox at the heart of the Lagerfeld story: He was a man who loved, and made, beautiful things while sometimes blithely giving voice to ugliness. Take a full look inside the Karl Lagerfeld exhibit and read our review at the link in bio. Photos by @AmyLombard; @LandonNordeman;」5月6日 5時50分