Becoming Karl Lagerfeld (Season 1)

Becoming Karl Lagerfeld (2024) is a French biographical drama you can watch online on iFILM. Paris, 1972: a thirty-eight-year-old ready-to-wear designer is still a name only insiders know — and he is impatient to change that.

Daniel Brühl plays Lagerfeld before the white ponytail and the dark glasses became a brand. His meeting with Jacques de Bascher (Théodore Pellerin), a seductive young dandy, tilts everything off balance. At the same time a long, bruising rivalry builds with Pierre Bergé, the business and romantic partner of Yves Saint Laurent. Two fashion houses, two egos, one city that can crown only one of them.

Directors Audrey Estrougo and Jérôme Salle skip the glossy portrait and dig into the ambition, the calculation and the betrayals stitched into the climb. The show works best when it stops admiring the legend and watches a man building one from scratch. Six episodes, period couture, and the back rooms of seventies Paris fashion. Stream Becoming Karl Lagerfeld online on iFILM.