Karl Lagerfield gets shirty in Bangkok

The late Karl Lagerfeld once said: “If you ask me what I’d most like to have invented in fashion, I’d say the white shirt. For me, the white shirt is the basis of everything. Everything else comes after.”

The exhibition “A Tribute To Karl Lagerfeld: The White Shirt Project” opens today and runs until Dec 18 at the Karl Lagerfeld store, CentralWorld.

The travelling exhibition features reinterpretations of the white shirt by the fashion designer’s family and friends, such as Kaia Gerber, Gigi Hadid, Helen Mirren, Olivia Palermo, Soo

Joo Park and Holli Rogers. The project allowed them to express personal memories, anecdotes and experiences.

Actress Davika Hoorne also brings her playful design with a black bow tie to the commemorative White Shirt Project.

Maison Karl Lagerfeld has introduced an “Essential White Shirt” silhouette, available for 9,950 baht at the Bangkok exhibition. The collector’s-edition piece is embellished with signature details — a high collar and thick cuffs — plus a special tribute label on the front. A complimentary service allows customers to create their own bespoke shirts. In addition, seven shirt designs — by Carine Roitfeld, Cara Delevingne, Tommy Hilfiger, Sébastien Jondeau, Diane Kruger, Kate Moss and Takashi Murakami — have each been replicated 77 times and are being sold for €777 (26,100 baht) per piece on Karl.com and Farfetch.com.

Sales proceeds will go to the Sauver la Vie charity initiative for medical research at the Paris Descartes University, which Lagerfeld personally supported for years.