On Tuesday night, New York City (along with many of it's most famous celebrities) saw the opening of Chanel Mobile Art's "Contemporary Art Container." This avant-garde art exhibit was created by Zahi Hadid, an award-winning artist and architect handpicked by the visionary Karl Lagerfeld (Chanel's artistic director). The white fiberglass pavilion houses commissioned art installations (done by sixteen artists that include Yoko Ono) inspired by Coco Chanel's legendary 2.55 quilted handbag. Having already been to Hong Kong and Tokyo, the global exhibit will be in NYC until November 9th when it continues on to Moscow, London, and Paris. Though tickets need to be reserved in advance, entrance to the "container" is absolutely free. As Lagerfeld stated on Tuesday: "Chanel is supposed to be for everybody." Indeed, this Chanel event could only have been the brainchild of the iconic and untouchable Karl Lagerfeld. Recently named to The Time 100, Lagerfeld is often thought of as the most famous fashion designer in the world. The designer, also a skilled photographer and avid art collector, went on to declare:
"We don't need art, but we cannot live without it."
Like we have seen in the course, art is everywhere imaginable being expressed in quite unimaginable ways - and fashion is one of these ways. Some may feel that it just consists of articles of clothing one wears by necessity but they're wrong. Rather, fashion is an art form in it's own right - an art form which, as Lagerfeld reminds us, we cannot live without.
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