Karl Lagerfeld Celebrates Chanel No. 5 And Couldn't Care Less If You Didn't Like His Recent Feminist Rally

Last night, Oct. 13, Chanel invited its loyal supporters and ambassadors to a gorgeous candlelit dinner/cocktail party to celebrate the icon that is Chanel No. 5. According to Marie Claire, Gisele Bündchen, Lily Allen, Gigi Hadid and more joined Karl Lagerfeld at a gallery space in New York weeks after his feminist rally to preview The One that I Want, a short film campaign directed by Baz Luhrmann.

Gisele stars in the mini movie — to be released in full tomorrow — and recently posted some amazing teaser snaps on her Instagram, including one of her riding a Chanel surfboard. Marilyn Monroe, Catherine Deneuve, Carole Bouquet and Nicole Kidman have all played the No. 5 woman before Gisele, making the role a big deal.

"The Chanel woman can be with herself on a beach, can be with her child, can have an aspirational and fulfilling work life, and at the same time she can have a true relationship; she can have romance and in the end, the Chanel woman chooses love," says Luhrmann of the woman he asked Gisele to portray.

Lagerfeld, who presented his much debated, feminist march-themed runway show just weeks ago in Paris, spoke to Fashionista about the rally and his thoughts on the criticism sparked by the protest.

Lagerfeld wanted the models to have a voice, but he was the mastermind behind the signs the girls held while coming down the runway.

"My mother was very much a feminist and I thought it was something right for the moment," he said.

Unsurprisingly, the designer paid no mind to critics.

"I couldn't care less if people are for or against," Lagerfeld said. "It's my idea. I like the idea of feminism being something lighthearted, not a truck driver for the feminist movement."