In 2018, while defending stylist Karl Templer, an accused of sexual misconduct by models for pulling their underwear down without permission, Lagerfeld told the magazine Numero that if you don’t want your pants pulled about, don’t become a model.
About 400 celebrity guests gathered for the Met Gala 2023, dressed in extravagant outfits. For this year’s theme, “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty”, attendees were asked to wear clothes “in honor of Karl” to the invitation-only fundraiser at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1st, 2023.
Cats dominated the star-studded 2023 Met Gala carpet, touted the biggest annual fashion event in New York as Jared Leto, Doja Cat, and Lil Nas X donned different cat looks, paying their tribute to the late Karl Lagerfeld’s feline friend, Choupette. Others also honored the German fashion designer who revived Chanel and was associated with brands like Fendi.
The fashion mogul who died in 2019 throughout his career which lasted over six decades made multiple controversial statements about women, women’s bodies, gay marriages, Metoo movement and was also alleged to be a Nazi sympathizer.
