EXCLUSIVE: Kate Moss, Cara Delevingne to Create White Shirts Honoring Karl Lagerfeld

GET SHIRTY: Many designers wished they had created blue jeans — among the most enduring of contemporary garments. Not Karl Lagerfeld. “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,” he once said. Five months after the passing of the iconic designer, a host of his famous friends are coming together for “A Tribute to Karl: The White Shirt Project.” Cara Delevingne, Diane Kruger, Kate Moss, Amber Valletta, Lewis Hamilton, Tommy Hilfiger, Alessandro Michele, Takashi Murakami, Carine Roitfeld, Sébastien Jondeau and others are to design their own interpretation of Lagerfeld’s famous white shirt — a high, well-starched collar, as synonymous with him as a white ponytail and dark glasses. Karl Lagerfeld’s original sketch of the white shirt that will be used for the tribute.  Courtesy Photo Overseen by Roitfeld, style adviser at the Lagerfeld brand, the project is to benefit the French charity Sauver la Vie, which funds medical research at the Paris Descartes University. All of the shirts are to be displayed during Paris Fashion Week in September at Karl Lagerfeld’s headquarters on the Rue Saint-Guillaume, and seven designs will be replicated 77

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