When his presence was announced at a Parisian evening, a theory of press officers warned you about every two minutes:
“Karl is coming! »
In silence,
Lagerfeld
pushed through the crowd, carefully retaining his dark glasses and his element of mystery. In
Kaiser Karl
, a nickname he abhorred, Raphaëlle Bacqué knew how to go beyond the often misleading appearances of the emperor of fashion.
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This biography serves as a template for the series which will arrive on
Disney+
on June 7,
Becoming Karl Lagerfeld
, confirming that the platforms have a certain appetite for haute couture and its masters. In line with
Cristobal Balenciaga
(Disney+) and
The New Look
(Apple TV+), it traces the difficult, if not painful, emergence of the designer in the 1970s and 1980s. It is less a question here of exploring a of heritage than to delve into the folds of a life marked, at least in its beginnings, by a certain frustration.
His resemblance is not a priori striking with Choupette's dad.
Gaumont, who produces the series, asked Daniel Brühl to don the black suit of the designer who personifies French elegance in the eyes of the world. The actor may well be German through his father, but he knew little or nothing about his compatriot, as he reveals in the exclusive interview he gives us. His resemblance is not a priori striking with Choupette's dad. In the first episodes that we had the privilege of viewing, the actor is nevertheless astonishing, burned with the same inner fire and this insatiable desire for perfection, as if vampirized by the torments of Lagerfeld, who, when asked he was happy answered, invariably, that he had never had such a high ambition...