How Karl Lagerfeld Was Made: A First Look at the New Documentary Karl

How Karl Lagerfeld Was Made: A First Look at the New Documentary Karl

Inside director Nick Hooker’s film about the legendary fashion designer, premiering this weekend.

‘Karl’ First Look: Nick Hooker’s Sumptuous Portrait of the Iconic Fashion Designer

“Karl,” Nick Hooker’s visually sumptuous portrait of German-French fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, who ran Fendi and Chanel fashion for decades, is great fun because we not only get to revel in his amazing runway shows — the outfits! the models! — but we are also treated to an obsessive creator at work. As Hooker readies to debut the film at the Telluride Film Festival on Saturday, August 30, he told IndieWire about how he steeped himself in La…