Controversy Surrounds Karl Lagerfeld's Tribute at the Met Gala.
The upcoming Karl Lagerfeld retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute raises questions about how to handle the designer's family's Nazi past and his own Islamophobic caricatures. Lagerfeld's privileged background allowed him to move to Paris in 1952 and begin his career there. In the last years of his life, Lagerfeld wrecked his reputation with his reactionary views. The article questions whether the retrospective will hide his crude views behind haute couture or undertake a critical contextualization of his work.