The Line of Time

Sixteen looks from the new Costume Institute exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art showcase six decades of Karl Lagerfeld’s fashion mastery—while Amanda Harlech remembers working at the right hand of the maestro. 

TIERS OF JOY

Karl Lagerfeld was nearly as famous for his look and his devotion to the arts and letters of the 18th century as for his talent as a draftsman. (Among his favorite tools for sketching? Eye makeup from Shu Uemura.) Model Anok Yai looks a bit like a work of art herself in a mohair Fendi haute fourrure cape from spring 2016.

Fashion Editor: Amanda Harlech.

Karl & Me 

By Amanda Harlech

Time passes, revealing details like the receding tide. I can see Karl so clearly—the fastidious way he held his glass of Coca Light, or rippled his fingers through the air as if he were playing the piano when he “love, love, loved ” a piece of music or a book I had read that he had given me. We do not change, even if age etches us differently, and the first time I met Karl feels like yesterday.