Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty

Download or read book Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty written by Andrew Bolton and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This investigation into Karl Lagerfeld’s (1933–2019) artistry explores his extraordinary sixty-five-year career, from the designs for Chloé and Fendi in the 1960s and 1970s to his celebrated leadership in the 1980s and beyond at Chanel and his own label. Inspired by the “line of beauty” theorized by eighteenth-century English painter William Hogarth, this dazzling publication pursues the straight and serpentine “lines” and their intersections in Lagerfeld’s work as a means of understanding his unique creative process.