Karl Lagerfeld and Disney Collaborated on a Donald Duck Assortment

QUACKING UP — An app that will allow you to “Karl-ify” your self would definitely be enjoyable.

Look what it’s executed for Donald Duck, who’s now logging his second collaboration with the Karl Lagerfeld trend home wearing darkish sun shades, a high-collared shirt and a black blazer — his head feathers pulled right into a jaunty ponytail.

The newest Disney x Karl Lagerfeld capsule assortment riffs on a hand-colored illustration of Donald Duck that the late designer created in 2004 to honor that beloved character’s seventieth anniversary, dressing the chicken identical to him.

(The German designer was born only some months earlier than Donald Duck made his first look on movie, cementing his affection for the temperamental chicken.)

Again in 2004, Disneyland Paris rapidly offered out of a limited-edition sequence of three,000 shirts bearing the paintings.

And in 2023, when The Walt Disney Firm marked its centenary yr, it teamed up with Karl Lagerfeld. The style home received’t disclose figures, however characterised that tie-up as a terrific success.

The sketch, in varied interpretations each shade and black-and-white, seems on denims jackets, sweaters, a bomber jacket and an off-the-cuff blazer for the 2025 capsule, launching Thursday at Karl Lagerfeld shops, some Disney shops, choose wholesale accounts and on-line at Karl.com and Disneystore.co.uk.

Equipment choices embody backpacks, tote luggage, purses, sneakers, sun shades, scarves and umbrellas.

Pier Paolo Righi, chief govt officer at Karl Lagerfeld, considers the sketch a real collector’s piece from the model’s archive, and a terrific instance of the late German designer’s humorousness.

“Karl has created this iconic paintings himself to mix the looks of two icons and merge it to at least one,” he instructed WWD. “The request of Karl followers all around the carry again this artwork piece again to our assortment was too large to not!”