Review: Becoming Karl Lagerfeld humanises the fashion icon who hid behind a parody

Daniel Bruhl and Theodore Pellerin in 'Becoming Karl Lagerfeld'

Dónal Lynch

The image of Karl ­Lagerfeld that is ­indelibly burned in the brain is the designer in his later years: a vampire ­courtesan with a forbiddingly blank expression, white hair pulled back in a ­ponytail, detachable white ­collars, and dark shades ­preventing him from turning to dust in daylight.

Comedian Margaret Cho once said, such was ­Lagerfeld’s combination of haughtiness and inventiveness, that were he ever sent to ­prison he would fashion a fan out of spoons.