PARIS — Chanel might be famous for the little black dress. But Karl Lagerfeld , the longtime creative director of the famed French fashion house, who died in February, had another wardrobe staple that he longed to call his own.

“If you ask me what I’d most like to have invented in fashion, I’d say the white shirt,” the designer once said . “Everything else comes after.”

A large white banner emblazoned with that quote hung in a courtyard off Saint-Germain-du-Prés Wednesday night , as hundreds of guests at Paris Fashion Week — including the American Vogue editor Anna Wintour and models from Kaia Gerber to Karlie Kloss — gathered for the latest tribute to the Lagerfeld name.