Photos Helen’s Blog April 10 – May 19 2023

More Credits on Website. Collage by helenoppenheim.com
Collage of photos, hair history, info and inspo on Helen’s Blog from April 10 to May 19, 2023. (Some the dates may not be 100% accurate with a blog or two out of order, but are close)
Top & 2nd Rows: Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty, the Costume Institute’s Spring 2023 Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Photos: The Metropolitan Museum of Art , Top Left Photo: Lagerfeld at work by Annie Leibovitz,)
Rows 3 & 4, far left: Easter Parade 5th Avenue Fab Fun Hats (Photos: Helen Oppenheim)
Row 3, right: Marcel Waves Return, Again: (Photos left and center: Hair Kim Lepine/Antonio da Costa Rocha, Photos Serge Beauchemin, right: Hair Kim Lepine, Photo: Lorraine Sylvestre)
Row 4, right:Marcel Waves Return, Again (L-R: Hair Paul Labreque, Marco Vogt, Romero Jennings/Mac Cosmetics, all Photos:Helen Oppenheim at NY Fashion Weeks). to see the latest Helen’s Blogs highlighting work archived on this website, CLICK HERE
CommentPhotos Helen’s Blog April 10 – May 19 2023

More Credits on Website. Collage by helenoppenheim.com
Collage of photos, hair history, info and inspo on Helen’s Blog from April 10 to May 19, 2023. (Some the dates may not be 100% accurate with a blog or two out of order, but are close)
Top & 2nd Rows: Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty, the Costume Institute’s Spring 2023 Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Photos: The Metropolitan Museum of Art , Top Left Photo: Lagerfeld at work by Annie Leibovitz,)
Rows 3 & 4, far left: Easter Parade 5th Avenue Fab Fun Hats (Photos: Helen Oppenheim)
Row 3, right: Marcel Waves Return, Again: (Photos left and center: Hair Kim Lepine/Antonio da Costa Rocha, Photos Serge Beauchemin, right: Hair Kim Lepine, Photo: Lorraine Sylvestre)
Row 4, right:Marcel Waves Return, Again (L-R: Hair Paul Labreque, Marco Vogt, Romero Jennings/Mac Cosmetics, all Photos:Helen Oppenheim at NY Fashion Weeks). To see All Collages archived on the Website, CLICK HERE
CommentKarl Lagerfeld @ Met Museum May 5 – 2023

Photos: The Metropolitan Museum of Art., Collages: helenoppenheim.com
The Costume Institute’s Spring Exhibition Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday, May 5th and will be at the Tisch Galleries on Fifth Avenue, Gallery 899, until July 16, 2023.
The Exhibition features almost 200 items – sketches and garments for Chanel, Fendi and the Karl Lagerfeld brands – and for Chloé, Balmain, Patou.
Spotlighted, Lagerfeld’s “unique working methodology, focusing on the late designer’s stylistic vocabulary as it was expressed in “through lines” – aesthetic and conceptual themes that appear time and again – in his fashions from the 1950s to his final collection in 2019. The exhibition is made possible by Chanel, with major support by Fendi and additional funding provided by Karl Lagerfeld and Condé Nast.
All designs by Karl Lagerfeld (French, born Germany, 1933-2019)
First Collage Top L-R : Karl Lagerfeld at work (Portrait Annie Leibovitz)…
Sketch Chanel Coat, Fall 2014 … Runway Coat, Fall 2024
2nd Row : Rachmaninoff Sketch, Dress Chloe, Spring 1973 …
Rachmaninoff Runway, Dress Chloe, Spring 1973 … Wedding Dress, Spring 2015.
Photos: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Second Collage Top L-R: Title Gallery … 21 _ Canonical Line
2nd Row: 33 – Satirical Line … 13_ Romantic Line
Photos: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Next Met Costume Institute Exhibition – 2016
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s next Costume Institute Exhibition will focus on Technology’s impact on Fashion. From May 5 to August 14, 2016. Sponsored by Apple, a perfect fit. “The Exhibition will explore the impact of new technology on fashion and how designers are reconciling the handmade and the machine-made in the creation of haute couture and avant-garde ready to wear.” There will be more than 100 examples dating from an 1880s Worth gown to a 2015 Chanel suit. The manus x machina: fashion in an age of technology is organized by Andrew Bolton, Curator of The Costume Institute, the first time in charge for my favorite curator. The Met Gala, which will take place on May 2, 2016, will include Co-Chairs Taylor Swift and Anna Wintour, Hononary Chairs will include Karl Lagerfeld, Nicholas Ghesquière, Miuccia Prada. The fabulous feather dress with bird heads here is by Iris van Herpen, Fall/Winter 2013-14. To see some of the past Costume Institute Exhibitions, click HERE
Photo: Jean-Baptiste Mondino