Cardi B had a complete of 4 outfit changes for her Met Gala evening this 12 months, and considered one of them paid homage to this very publication.

The entertainer emerged from The Mark Hotel on Monday evening on her strategy to Met Gala after parties — wrapped in digital prints of archival WWD issues.

The robe was customized by Sergio Castaño Peña of Syndical Chamber, a Barcelona-based brand that explores today’s digital age through a cheeky, surrealist lens. The dress was commissioned by Cardi B’s stylist, Kollin Carter.

Peña went straight to the source of fashion industry news as a way to create a gown befitting of the Met Gala’s Karl Lagerfeld theme. He pulled WWD clips regarding Lagerfeld’s first collection for Chanel and laser printed them onto silk velvet.

The body-hugging, plunging neckline gown features WWD coverage from Lagerfeld’s first Chanel couture collection, previewed within the Jan. 16, 1983, edition.

Written by Christopher Petkanas, the article offers a glimpse into the somewhat fraught scene on the Chanel atelier on Lagerfeld’s arrival.

It begins: “The sign on the design studio’s door still reads ‘Mademoiselle — Prive,’ but inside is a remarkably tanned, newly trim Karl Lagerfeld nervously admiring his careful rendition of the Chanel suit he’ll present in his first collection for the home on Jan. 25 [1983].

“It was at Lagerfeld’s insistence that the ghostly reminder of Coco Chanel stays outside his newest part-time office, and he works deep into the night, hoping to live as much as the hallowed name while keeping aloft his own popularity. For Chanel, and myriad other clients, he’s working ’16 hours a day and delighted to do it.’”

While Lagerfeld is now considered a revered and revered grand duke of fashion, Petkanas observed otherwise on the time. “The atmosphere within the salons and ateliers is charged with a type of palpable ‘them against us’ friction between the Chanel regulars and the Lagerfeld camp; after they pass one another on the famous winding staircase set against a wall of mirrors, they’re nothing if not polite,” he wrote.

Peña wrote on Instagram that Cardi B’s dress is, “our modest homage to Karl’s legacy…crazy intense beginnings are a situation we will easily empathize with.”

The designer added via text message: “Cardi and her team liked the thought, because it was a special strategy to honor [Lagerfeld], greater than using proper couture details like camelias. That is more like a treasure map you could read when you end up bored for a minute. We didn’t need Anna [Wintour] to approve because it was an after party, but I hope she saw it.”

On the time of the article’s publishing, Petkanas reported that Lagerfeld was paid $1 million for his work at Chanel per 12 months plus a $100,000 budget to gift his designs to numerous muses and fashion editors.

The WWD story concluded: “Shuttling between Paris, Rome, where [the designer] works on the Fendi collections, and Monte Carlo, where he’s a resident, Lagerfeld has neither the time nor the appetite to enterprise out socially at night. ‘I’m into making public disappearances,’ he said.

“’If I only did Chanel it might be mediocre because I’d must surrender my very own personality,’ Lagerfeld says, explaining the need for having his finger in so many pies. ‘Today I’m like a pc who’s plugged into the Chanel mode.’”