Chanel and Fendi will stage a memorial event for Karl Lagerfeld in Paris
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29th May 2019
Chanel, Fendi and the Karl Lagerfeld brand are joining forces to stage a one-night only special memorial event during Paris Men’s Fashion Week to pay tribute to legendary German designer Karl Lagerfeld, reports.
According to the publication the trio of labels — all of which Lagerfeld was the creative director for — will hold the event at the Grand Palais in Paris on June 20. The Grand Palais is a fitting place to stage the event, given it was where Karl Lagerfeld held many of the Chanel runway shows during his long tenure at the French fashion house, transforming the space into dazzling fashion fantasylands for each and every show.
The designer passed away in February this year aged 85, leaving behind an unparalleled fashion legacy and so it comes as no surprise that a special tribute is being organised in his honour. reports the tribute has been named ‘Karl For Ever’ and is being “staged by theatre and opera director Robert Carsen.”
Per , there will be three giant screens in the main hall of the Grand Palais which will broadcast various videos of Lagerfeld, along with “interviews with his collaborators in the worlds of fashion, art and culture.”
The videos will reportedly be just one element of the evening, with live dance, music and acting performances also slated for the memorial event.
“I wanted something full of life and unexpected,” Carsen told WWD, adding “He [Karl Lagerfeld] once famously said, ‘A funeral? I’d rather die’. He would have wanted it to be a joyful moment.”
This will be the first big tribute to Karl Lagerfeld, the designer was cremated in a private ceremony, reportedly leaving word that he did not wish for a public funeral.
“The memorial will be about Karl only: who he was, what he loved, what gave him his exceptional energy,” Chanel’s president of fashion, Bruno Pavlovsky, told WWD. “I am glad we could join forces with Fendi and [the] Karl Lagerfeld [brand] to create together an exceptional event that measures up to him, a tribute that truly celebrates the things he loved and that inspired him.”
The interviews for the memorial are reportedly currently being filmed in front of Lagerfeld’s library and reports the event will be by private invitation with approximately 2,500 guests expected to attend.