Karl Lagerfeld. Modemethode

Karl Lagerfeld is one of the world’s most renowned fashion designers and widely celebrated as an icon of the zeitgeist. Karl Lagerfeld. Modemethode at the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany is the first comprehensive exhibition to explore the fashion cosmos of this exceptional designer and, with it, to present an important chapter of the fashion history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Karl Lagerfeld is known for injecting classic shapes with new life and for taking fashion into new directions. For the past sixty years, from 1955 to today, Lagerfeld’s creations have consistently demonstrated his extraordinary feel for the ‘now’ – whether haute couture and prêt-à-porter for the luxury houses such as Balmain, Patou, Fendi, Chloé, Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel, or his more affordable collection for Swedish fashion retailer H&M. ‘Modemethode’, Lagerfeld’s ‘fashion method’, is his ambitious, all-encompassing approach: from the initial sketch to the finished garment, from the accessories, the architectural setting and music of the fashion shows, to the photographs and graphic design of press material, advertising, catalogues and window displays – every last little detail is devised by the designer himself.