United Kingdom, 2026, 110 min
Director: Nick Hooker
Featuring Tilda Swinton, Penélope Cruz, Tom Ford, Vanessa Paradis, Paloma Picasso and others.
 
Versace is easy to love. His world is woven from sunlight, passion, beauty, noisy Italian summers, family bonds, triumph and tragedy.
Galliano feels like the hero of a great novel: talent and obsession, meteoric rise and devastating fall, redemption, catharsis and return. An almost classical tragedy.
McQueen left us his pain, his vulnerability, his contradictions and his demons. He makes us want to reach out and embrace him.
We know their stories. We empathize with them.
But Karl Lagerfeld was different.
He never sought to be understood. He did not ask for sympathy, did not speak of his wounds, did not turn his private life into confession. His image resembled a carefully constructed disguise: the white ponytail, the dark glasses, the immaculate high collar.
“I have spent so much time playing a role that it is almost impossible for anyone to know who I really am. You can see my work. But not me.”
In these words lies the key to one of the most enigmatic creative minds of our time.
Through previously unseen materials from his personal archives — letters, sketches, photographs and memories shared by those who knew him best — we enter the universe Lagerfeld spent a lifetime creating.
Here, the pages of rare books rustle softly. A pencil glides across paper. Towers of art books rise from enormous tables: Versailles and Rococo, the Enlightenment and pop culture, antiquity and futurism. Lagerfeld connected centuries with the ease of a magician, transforming fashion shows into monumental spectacles and runways into supermarkets, spaceports and fantastical worlds.
The past fueled his imagination: a boy from war-ravaged Hamburg, an indefatigable draftsman escaping reality through fantasy. A young émigré conquering Paris. A couturier, photographer, publisher, collector and provocateur.
And finally, an artist who transformed himself into a work of art — and at the same time, into an impenetrable fortress.
He constantly rewrote his biography, concealed his age, invented new versions of his past, avoided emotional confessions and kept intimacy at a distance. The closer we come to Karl, the more elusive he becomes.
This master architect of his own legend created a myth so complete that he eventually disappeared inside it.
This is not an attempt to expose a legend.
It is a journey toward a mystery that may never be fully solved.
Toward Karl Lagerfeld — the man no one truly knew.
The white ponytail. The dark glasses. The impeccable collar.
The man beyond the myth.
A rare and remarkably intimate journey into the life of a man who transformed the very language of fashion.
A designer who became a legend in his own lifetime. An artist who turned fashion into grand theater. He breathed new life into Chloé, reimagined Fendi, and revived Chanel. A visionary whose influence on culture was as profound as his talent.

 

A rare and remarkably intimate journey into the life of a man who transformed the very language of fashion.
A designer who became a legend in his own lifetime. An artist who turned fashion into grand theater. He breathed new life into Chloé, reimagined Fendi, and revived Chanel. A visionary whose influence on culture was as profound as his talent.