He hung two objects from the chain, close to his heart-not more Chrome Hearts jewelry, but his parents’ wedding rings.Over three decades after its founding, Chrome Hearts is in the midst of a surge in popularity. Lagerfeld owned several, and he wore at least one of them, with a diamond-studded clasp, often. Richard designed the chains for the backstage passes to a Rolling Stones tour-they’re fancy lanyards, basically. On his chest: a thatch of chains that must have been among his favorite Chrome Hearts pieces. The photograph shows the designer on a rooftop, leaning against a planter, a glass of diet soda in one fingerless-gloved hand. When Laurie Lynn showed up, Lagerfeld was wearing his usual assemblage of sterling silver. Lagerfeld almost never posed for other photographers. In 2007, Lagerfeld was in New York to photograph a Chanel campaign, and he invited Laurie Lynn (who lensed Chrome Hearts campaigns) to take his portrait. “This kind of big succession can take 10 years.”Īmidst the craziness of preparing for the Met Gala, Laurie Lynn is still finding moments to remember Lagerfeld. “The situation left at the end was not very tidy,” said Lagerfeld’s lawyer Céline Degoulet, according to WWD. The museum purchased a pair of Chrome Hearts sunglasses in the show from Sotheby's. I don't know where it went.” Several pieces of Chrome Hearts jewelry are included in the Met Costume Institute’s Karl Lagerfeld exhibition, but they were lent by the Starks rather than by Lagerfeld's estate. But after attempting to work out a deal with Lagerfeld’s lawyers, the collection simply “disappeared. After Lagerfeld’s death, Laurie Lynn “tried to buy back everything” she says. The Starks have been trying to track down the rest. When Sotheby’s auctioned off thousands of pieces of his art, furniture, and clothing in 2021, only a few pieces of Chrome Hearts came up (including a sterling silver pencil sharpener and an ebony wood toilet plunger the latter sold for 1,512 euros). Like the rest of Lagerfeld’s fortune, the whereabouts of his Chrome Hearts collection is currently unknown. Why, you might ask, would the German designer of Chanel and Fendi cover so many of his appendages in the work of a label that emerged out of LA’s biker and rock ’n’ roll scenes? His Chrome Hearts habit has been cast as one of Lagerfeld’s many somewhat inexplicable personal quirks. As time went on, Lagerfeld’s silver accessories became almost as central a part of his identity as his silver ponytail. Though he was reputed to own hundreds of belts, in his final decade Lagerfeld was rarely seen in public without a diamond-encrusted Chrome Hearts “Gunslinger” buckle on his waist. And “Kaiser Karl” often topped all this off with piles of Chrome Hearts jewelry: layers of necklaces, stacks of rings, and an ensemble of dangly wallet chains and various glittery charms. He cultivated several looks over his lifetime, but the one that finally stuck was his image of a Prussian dandy, a famous getup of tight jeans, skinny Dior blazer, starched white shirt with a 4”-tall collar, wide black tie, leather gloves, and dark sunglasses. “Karl,” she says, “loved Chrome.”īefore his death in 2019, Karl Lagerfeld was fashion’s greatest and most famous eccentric-almost a caricature of a fashion designer-and his daily uniform was instantly recognizable.
Stark knows very well why seemingly everybody wants to show up to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday night wearing a piece of her brand.
The 2023 Met Gala, though, is a tribute to Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion titan who helmed Chanel for 36 years. The brand is often flexed by A-listers like Drake, but it’s not a regular presence on the breakneck-paced red carpet circuit. Chrome Hearts, known for its gothic sterling silver accessories, heavy-duty leather garments, and baroque-biker design aesthetic, is all about making things the right way-as in, slowly, by hand, in Hollywood. “I had people calling for clothes on Friday!” she says. Stark, who co-owns the Los Angeles-based luxury brand Chrome Hearts, has been fielding a stream of last-minute requests from celebrities and their stylists for clothes and jewelry to wear for fashion’s biggest night. It’s just days before the Met Gala, and Laurie Lynn Stark’s phone is ringing off the hook.
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