MATT ER OF STYLE

“Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty,” on view from May 5 through July 16, will examine Lagerfeld’s illustrious career and expansive portfolio of garments and illustrations. The 150 garments on display will survey his tenures at Chanel, Fendi, Chloé, Patou, Balmain, and his eponymous label, a true testament of “Lagerfeld’s complex working methodology,” according to curator Andrew Bolton. The curation finds its center in painter William Hogarth’s theory of the “line of beauty”—dividing the collection into the “straight line,” the “serpentine line,” and the “satirical line.” Each “line” reflects an element of Lagerfeld’s iconoclastic taste and artistic voice: his interest in modernism, admiration of 18th-century aesthetics, and playful, “razor-sharp” wit.