The 2023 Met Gala is fashion’s most enjoyable annual event, but this 12 months’s theme, “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty,” has been met with backlash.

The theme for the 2023 fundraiser, which also includes an exhibition within the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, honors longtime Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld, who was notably close friends with Met Gala organizer and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.

While the style legend is remembered for his iconic designs and elegance, the late German designer was also known for his unsavory opinions and controversial, even hateful viewpoints. Lagerfeld was accused of homophobia, fatphobia, misogyny, Islamophobia and racism during his profession.

One well-known example of Lagerfeld’s fatphobia, as an illustration, was a comment he made about global superstar Adele. “She is slightly too fat, but she has a ravishing face and a divine voice,” Lagerfeld said of the Grammy-winning singer in 2012, in response to The Guardian.

Lagerfeld also once called supermodel Heidi Klum “too heavy” to be a runway model, Gawker reports. Much more infamously, Lagerfeld once told a German magazine that “nobody desires to see curvy women” in fashion.

But Lagerfeld’s disparaging criticism toward women didn’t stop there. He notoriously said that Coco Chanel “wasn’t ugly enough to be a feminist,” and claimed in an interview that anorexia was less dangerous than TV and junk food.

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Lagerfeld also denied the validity of the #MeToo movement, even defending a stylist who was accused of sexual misconduct by models.

“It’s unbelievable. If you happen to don’t want your pants pulled about, don’t turn out to be a model! Join a nunnery, there’ll all the time be a spot for you within the convent. They’re recruiting even!” he said in an interview with Numéro magazine in 2018.

Lagerfeld’s cruel remarks also prolonged into racism and Islamophobia.

He once put model Claudia Schiffer in Blackface and yellowface for a German magazine.

Lagerfeld also made headlines for making Islamophobic comments about his home country of Germany accepting Muslim immigrants. He even called Muslim refugees an “affront to Holocaust victims.”

These, amongst many more problematic comments and actions, are why some who work in fashion media have chosen to not take part in coverage of this 12 months’s Met Gala.

As one fashion blogger told Time: “Numerous us are literally a part of the communities that Karl Lagerfeld has targeted in his hateful speech.”