Karl Lagerfeld: fashion thrills to aristocracy
Aurel Kolnai observed that hierarchy is ineliminable from our moral psychology, and since hierarchy is also manifested in privilege, certain aristocratic tones in our shared life are ineradicable. It is unsurprising, therefore, that the passing of Karl Lagerfeld has seen him cast as an aristocrat, a Baroque glittering returning us to the salons of…