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 Lagerfeld바카라s 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, women바카라s bodies, gay marriages, Metoo movement and was also alleged to be a Nazi sympathizer.
Protesting In Pink And Eating Fries
Activist and model Quannah Chasinghorse donned a loud and brash look, defying Lagerfeld바카라s aesthetics. Sporting a frothy bubblegum Prabal Gurung dress, Chasinghorse in all her indigenous glory threw shade at the late designer who hated and loathed the color pink with a notorious history of intolerance, discrimination, and racism. The Arizona native paired her look with punk-rock Vex Latex opera gloves, adorned with swirling vines of roses and handmade Dakota jewelry. Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis also did not miss the opportunity to subtly register her stance against the designer who was being celebrated at the 2023 Met Gala.
Lizzo stole the show as she posted a picture of herself dressed in a classic Lagerfeld silhouette in black, dripping in peals eating fries in a hotel kitchen. The American singer and artist was among the very few plus-size celebrities on the Met Gala 2023 carpet.
When the theme was first announced in October 2022 by Vogue director Anna Wintour who chairs the Met Gala and was one of Lagerfeld바카라s closest friends, She-Hulk fame actor Jameela Jamil reminded the public about the designer바카라s history while sharing a series of screenshots of articles with instances of Lagerfeld's distasteful acts. 바카라Why is THIS who we celebrate when there are so many AMAZING designers out there who aren바카라t bigoted white men?바카라 she asked.
Jameel also wrote a scathing post after the Met Gala 2023 calling out the theme and idea of "selective cancel culture" by many of the attendees including acclaimed 바카라feminists바카라 who celebrated a man who was publicly cruel to women, fat people, immigrants, and sexual assault survivors.
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The fashion designer has as long a list of controversies and problematic statements under his wings as his achievements. On multiple occasions, he mirrored as well as reinstated unrealistic and discriminatory practices of the fashion and glamour industry. During his interview with the German news magazine, Focus in 2009 said that 바카라no one wants to see a curvy woman바카라 or plus-size models on the runway. He even called Adele 바카라a little too fat바카라 in 2012 to a European newspaper which he later apologized for.
Lagerfeld also exhibited his misogynist take on the MeToo movement when he was quoted saying 바카라What shocks me most in all of this are the starlets who have taken 20 years to remember what happened,바카라 to Numero Magazine. 바카라Not to mention the fact there are no prosecution witnesses,바카라 he added.
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, 바카라If you don바카라t want your pants pulled about, don바카라t become a model!바카라. During his interview with the magazine, he went as far as saying, 바카라Join a nunnery, there바카라ll always be a place for you in the convent.바카라
바카라One cannot 바카라 even if there are decades between them 바카라 kill millions of Jews so you can bring millions of their worst enemies in their place,바카라 Lagerfeld, who was German, said in 2017. He expressed his issues with the then-German chancellor Angela Merkel바카라s decision to allow Syrian refugees into Germany at the time. 바카라I know someone in Germany who took a young Syrian and after four days said: 바카라The greatest thing Germany invented was the Holocaust,바카라 he added.
The late designer also published "The Karl Lagerfeld Diet" in partnership with Jean-Claude Houdret, a general practitioner and self-proclaimed diet doctor in 2004. The book entails the designer바카라s journey of losing over 90 pounds during a 14-month period through strict dieting and diet drink consumption. He clarifies the objective behind his diet, which is not to get healthier. Instead, he writes, "My objective was to get to 154 pounds in a year so I could wear different clothes."
Called the Spoonlight program, his process includes a restrictive caloric intake, appetite suppressants, food supplements, and substituting some meals with flavored "protein sachets." It also eschews exercise because exercise "runs the risk of making you hungry."
