Daniel Brhl & Thodore Pellerin Interview: Becoming Karl Lagerfeld

Based on the biography Kaiser Karl: The Life of Karl Lagerfeld, Hulu’s splashy new limited series, Becoming Karl Lagerfeld, lives up to its name, as it focuses on the ten years leading up to Lagerfeld becoming, well, Karl Lagerfeld. Lagerfeld, who passed in 2019, was an iconic German fashion designer, who made a name for himself as he worked his way through several of the top fashion houses in Paris in the 1970s and 80s, before becoming the creative director of Chanel until his death. Known best for his slicked-back ponytails and chic sunglasses, there was more than met the eye when it came to Lagerfeld, and that’s the story that the fashionable French series aims to explore. While Lagerfeld was quite shrewd about his personal relationships in life, there is quite a bit known about his decade-spanning romance with noted socialite Jacques de Bascher, and Becoming Karl Lagerfeld respects Lagerfeld’s insistence that he and de Bascher’s relationship was never physical. This dynamic, brought