Young Karl: Disney tells the story of 'Becoming Karl Lagerfeld'

A series on Karl Lagerfeld
Cast with European stars
The beginnings of a giant
A fashion mercenary
His crazy love
An enigmatic figure
A paradoxical character
The people closest to Karl Lagerfeld
Big competitor: YSL
On Disney+
A series on Karl Lagerfeld

Disney+ has released a mini-series on the beginnings of German fashion giant Karl Lagerfeld. The designer, who worked with the greatest models, died in 2019.

Cast with European stars

Actor Daniel Brühl plays the title role in 'Becoming Karl Lagerfeld'. His great rival Yves Saint Laurent is played by Arnaud Valois.

The beginnings of a giant

The six-episode series focuses on the 1970s when the designer made a name for himself in the fashion world.

A fashion mercenary

Describing himself as a 'fashion mercenary', Lagerfeld was a gifted polyglot. He worked in several houses, such as Chloé and the Italian brand Fendi.

His crazy love

The designer then fell madly in love with the Parisian dandy Jacques de Bascher (a role by Théodore Pellerin). The rivalry for the young man cost him his friendship with Yves Saint Laurent.

An enigmatic figure

Daniel Brühl told Vanity Fair France that he had studied the young Lagerfeld. He described him as an "enigmatic", "multi-faceted" character. "He created armor to protect himself," Brühl said. "What interested me most was discovering the solitary Karl."

A paradoxical character

According to Brühl, Lagerfeld was "a character full of paradoxes and someone who reflects the ambiguity of life", immersed in the world of fashion and nightlife, but "happier in intellectual circles than in these imaginary worlds he had created obsessively, almost like fairy tales."

The people closest to Karl Lagerfeld

"Who was he really intimate with in the end? With Jacques de Bascher, the only love of his life, and his mother too, Elisabeth Lagerfeld," said the German actor. "He had fallen in love with a young man, like something straight out of a Proust novel."

Big competitor: YSL

"The competition with Yves Saint Laurent was also exciting to play. Because there was love and hatred, respect, but also jealousy," says Daniel Brühl.

On Disney+

Will the mini-series live up to the status of the immense creator? Will it shed a different light on the world of Parisian fashion? Have a look at the show on Disney+!

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