Ruth Leon recommends… Karl Lagerfeld Exhibition – Met Museum

Karl Lagerfeld Exhibition – Met Museum

I’ve always thought the fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld,  with his black glasses, black gloves and white cat looked rather creepy. But I never met him and, anyway, could never have afforded even copies of his designs so who am I to judge?

Wiser writers than I, and certainly those who have written about fashion in the 20th and 21st century, all seem to rate him and his work very highly. There are few fashion designers who rate an exhibition in a major museum – Alexander McQueen and Valentino are the only ones who come to mind – and the Met has just mounted a lavish exhibition which made me want to see what he designed and why.

Fortunately, the Met has also made a film which takes us on a tour of the exhibition Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty in the safe and knowledgeable hands of Andrew Bolton, the Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute. Now it’s possible for those of us who could never have imagined ourselves in a Lagerfeld creation to see what we’ve been missing. It’s a revelation.

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