BECOMING KARL LAGERFELD
| 2024 – Season 1 – 6 x 52′ – Series – Drama, Biopic.
Created by: Isaure Pisani-Ferry, Jennifer Have, Raphaëlle Bacqué.
Written by: Isaure Pisani-Ferry, Dominique Baumard, Jennifer Have, Nathalie Hertzberg.
Directed by: Audrey Estrougo, Jérôme Salle.
Starring: Daniel Brühl, Alex Lutz, Théodore Pellerin, Arnaud Valois, Agnès Jaoui, Sunnyi Melles, Jeanne Damas, Claire Laffut.
In French with English subtitles.
A Disney+/Hulu release. |
Set in France in the 1970s, the Disney+ Original series, produced by Gaumont, shows the life and loves of the so-called ‘Emperor of Fashion’ Karl Lagerfeld. Starring Daniel Brühl as the German icon and based on the book Kaiser Karl by Raphaëlle Bacqué, it focuses on his journey from an unknown ready-to-wear designer to an icon of Parisian couture and digs into Karl Lagerfeld’s real-life rivalry with his friend Yves Saint Laurent and his love for the troubling young dandy Jacques de Bascher.