Kiddy Smile Puts a Fresh Spin on Karl Lagerfeld’s Signature White Shirt

Yesterday, Gigi Hadid, Helen Mirren, Cara Delevingne all wore the same outfit to the very same party. In most circumstances—for celebrities and the Paris Fashion Week crowd, anyway—that would be an embarrassing faux pas. But last night, it was very much intentional; they were all gathered at a hôtel particulier for a Carine Roitfeld-led charity project celebrating Karl Lagerfeld, wherein a host of famous names each put forth their own interpretation of the central element of Lagerfeld’s iconic uniform, the crisp white shirt.

The bright yellow, fringe-lined jumpsuit that French producer and DJ Kiddy Smile created for his recent opera appearance might seem like a far cry from Lagerfeld’s simple black and white look, but Smile is nothing if not versatile. In honor of the late designer, Smile put his own spin on Lagerfeld’s timeless uniform last night, attending the event last night in a white shirt buttoned all the way down and a black leather jacket.

He also got the opportunity to put forth his own interpretation of Lagerfeld’s classic Chanel shirt: he scrawled their shared “K” initial down the center, and on the collar, he wrote the words “Kiddy” and “Karl” in big pink bubble letters (he told WWD he was inspired by his adolescent love of graffiti, as well as the patterns of traditional garments from Cameroon, where his parents are from.) Even when Smile is reinterpreting someone else’s style codes, it seems he’s able to seamlessly include his own perspective, too.

<cite class="credit">Photo: Kiddy Smile / @kiddysmile</cite>
Photo: Kiddy Smile / @kiddysmile
<cite class="credit">Photo: Kiddy Smile / @kiddysmile</cite>
Photo: Kiddy Smile / @kiddysmile
<cite class="credit">Photo: Kiddy Smile / @kiddysmile</cite>
Photo: Kiddy Smile / @kiddysmile
See the videos.

Originally Appeared on Vogue