The list of things he derided included #MeToo, fat women, gay marriage and immigrants
The theme for this year’s Met Gala wasn’t a concept; it was a person. But the organizers’ departure from their usual theming convention wasn’t the most controversial thing about the night.
The real issue is that Karl Lagerfeld, the man they’ve chosen to honor, was also notoriously fatphobic, anti-immigrant, possibly homophobic and, many would say – despite his slew of famous muses – low-keyThe late creative director of Chanel, who died in 2019, was a behemoth in the fashion world. Yet his list of accomplishments was almost as long as his list of controversies. Hehe was “fed up” with the #MeToo movement and questioned the claims of victims who came forward during that time.
“One cannot – even if there are decades between them – kill millions of Jews so you can bring millions of their worst enemies in their place,” Lagerfeld, who was German, said in 2017. He had apparentlywith then German chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to allow Syrian refugees into Germany at the time. “I know someone in Germany who took a young Syrian and after four days said: ‘The greatest thing Germany invented was the Holocaust,’” he added.
The choice to have Lagerfeld front and center at this year’s Met Gala when many of his worst comments happened within very recent memory is a stark reminder of just how little society values the people who are implicated in his bigotry. Women, fat people, migrants fleeing their home countries for their lives, queer people fighting for their civil liberties – all of these people at one time or another fell under the shadow of Lagerfeld’s scorn.
His disdain both mirrored and amplified some of the fashion world’s most toxic ideals, so Lagerfeld’s fashion canonization at the Met Gala seems fitting. But it’s also a night when many of the kinds of people he derided were being asked to pay homage to his legacy.
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