Lagerfeld Confidential

2007, Movie, NR, 89 mins

Lagerfeld Confidential: Review

French filmmaker Rodolphe Marconi's portrait of Karl Lagerfeld, the German-born designer who jump-started the moribund House of Chanel in the early 1980s, isn't an up-close and personal expose of the man behind the carefully cultivated persona. And perhaps it could never have been: The more Marconi tries to draw out Lagerfeld's secrets, the more it appears that Lagerfeld is a sphinx who has none. Marconi spent two years with Lagerfeld, filming him as he sketched designs, ... read more leave a comment