Telly has rivetingly turned its sights onto fashion this year. Hot on the heels of Disney+ show Cristóbal Balenciaga (gorgeous) and Apple TV+’s The New Look (slightly tedious) comes a comparatively more modern look at one of the industry’s most seminal figures, Karl Lagerfeld.
The German multi-hyphenate designer, played here by Daniel Brühl, might be most well known for his almost 40 year tenure at Chanel, calling Adele fat and his multi-millionaire Birman cat Choupette (as cosplayed by Jared Leto at last year’s Met Gala) but this biopic (based on Raphaëlle Bacqué 's book Kasier Karl) offers a more cavalier insight into who the man behind the highly starched collars really was. Or at least, where he was created from.
