Karl marque
Every first Monday of May, for more than seventy years, it is the same ritual. Some would say the same circus… In order to raise funds for its financing, the Costume Institute, the prestigious fashion museum of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is organizing a gala attended by the world of fashion and entertainment. The stars parade, dressed with panache and extravagance within the framework of an imposed theme: this year, it was a question of paying tribute to the late Karl Lagerfeld. Which Rihanna and A$AP Rocky obviously went out of their way to do.
lady with camellias
The singer Rihanna, pregnant with her second child, thus presented herself covered with camellias, saluting the house for which Karl Lagerfeld worked for thirty-six years… The camellia has indeed become one of the symbols of Chanel since 1913, three years after the creation of the house, when Coco Chanel was photographed on a beach in Etretat with a flower tied to her belt. The designer liked this one for its aesthetic purity but also its olfactory neutrality: with the dahlia, in particular, the camellia is one of the rare flowers devoid of odor.
Black cat
Rihanna had also taken care to hide behind a pair of sunglasses, in a nod there also obvious to Karl Lagerfeld. The latter never showed his gaze and liked to say, “For me, dark glasses are like wearable eye shadow.” Through tinted glasses, the world is more beautiful and everyone instantly looks ten years younger. That’s why I always wear dark glasses. To our knowledge, his choice, however, was rarely cat-eye glasses with false eyelashes.
sure measure
On the arm of Rihanna, her companion, the rapper A$AP Rocky had also put on a pair of dark glasses. But the mimicry with Karl Lagerfeld had mainly led him to wear a white shirt with a false collar. The creator never went out without his. And all of them came from the English house of Hilditch
Kilt or double
That night, at the Met Gala, A$AP Rocky had also taken out his kilt, as Karl Lagerfeld had done in 2004, on the occasion of a Chanel show. Note, since this is obviously the subject, that the rapper had chosen to put on jeans under his, thus contravening the so-called “going regimental” tradition of not wearing anything under his kilt, as members of the regiments did. English army based in the Highlands in the 18th century. In defense of A$AP Rocky, Karl Lagerfeld was also dressed under his kilt in 2004.
