THE RISE OF THE INSTA-GRIEVER
It seems like many celebrity deaths ago. Yet the fumes still linger from the social media conflagration that followed the demise in one bad week in February 2019 of Karl Lagerfeld, Lee Radziwill and Marella Agnelli. Those who knew them and those who didn’t grabbed their phones to broadcast conspicuous displays of grief. Supermodel Helena Christensen’s lengthy Lagerfeld screed of sorrow on Instagram included references to fun shoots at his mansion in the south of France and a UFO she thought might have taken him away to a better world.
“Of course I posted,” she told me at dinner months later. “We were close.”
Of course.
“In the age of oversharing, even grieving has gone viral,
