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Daniel Brühl on playing Karl Lagerfeld: ‘He never lost touch with the pulse’
The German actor discusses how he approached playing the fashion legend in a new TV series, navigating his ambition, idiosyncrasies and relationships
Although he spent virtually his entire career at luxury labels catering to the very wealthy – including 20 years at Chloé – Lagerfeld’s designs quickly filtered down to retailers, giving him global influence and laying the foundations of the modern fashion industry. “A time of revolution, of sexual liberation and then there’s that anachronistic element to it because Karl Lagerfeld very often lived in his intellectual realm and in his fantasy and with the money that he had earned was capable of creating these cerebral worlds, these fairytale paradises, especially for the love of his life. Brühl’s breakthrough film was the 2003 satire Good Bye, Lenin!, in which he played a young man trying to protect his mother from the shocking news that her beloved East Germany disappeared while she was in a coma.
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