Celebrity-packed Met Gala set to honor fashion designer who said 'no one wants to see curvy women'
01.05.2023 - 23:13
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Late German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld will be honored at the 2023 Met Gala on Monday despite, what many commentators called, his "controversial" past statements and views. The theme, which was announced in September, will feature an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute titled "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty" and display approximately 150 of his designs as well as his original sketches.The dress code of the red carpet event, announced in January, will also be "In honor of Karl." The Met Gala is a star-studded event where celebrities and other notable figures display unique fashion choices where they raise money for the Met’s Costume Institute However, many media outlets and celebrities called out this year's decision to honor the late fashion designer, claiming that Lagerfeld’s past statements should disqualify him from being honored at the event. He criticized the #MeToo movement in 2018.
"What shocks me most in all of this are the starlets who have taken 20 years to remember what happened. Not to mention the fact there are no prosecution witnesses.That said I cannot stand Mr.
Weinstein. I had a problem with him at amfAR," Lagerfeld said.
The designer was also accused of being "fatphobic," because he told a fashion magazine in 2009 that, "No one wants to see curvy women." Regarding political issues, Lagerfeld criticized German chancellor Angela Merkel for efforts to open the country’s borders during the Syrian refugee crisis and even questioned gay couples raising children. "In the 60s, they all said we had the right to the difference.
And now, suddenly, they want a bourgeois life," Lagerfeld said in 2010. "For me it’s difficult to imagine — one of the papas at work and the other at
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