Too Confidential

Out of reach: Karl Lagerfeld remains an enigma in Rodolphe Marconi's hagiography
10 April 2012

"Pissing everywhere isn't very Chanel," reads a notice above Karl Lagerfeld's toilet. But, though it proves that the man has a sense of humour, nowhere in the film does it seem likely that the fashionistas would do any such thing.

They seem far too self-regarding, especially the male models that Lagerfeld, invariably dressed in those high, stiff collars that hardly allow him to move his head, photographs so avidly.

Rodolphe Marconi, who made this film about this "unparalleled interpreter of the mood of the moment" took more than 200 hours of footage but seldom gets beyond first base.

You learn only as much as Lagerfeld wants you to, which isn't very much at all. Hardly anything about his methods, or his private life, if he has any, but the fashion world in general is sketched with admiring brushstrokes, horrendous as it looks peering in from the real world outside.

Lagerfeld Confidential
Cert: 12A

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