Karl Lagerfeld
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Biography: Karl Lagerfeld (born Karl Otto Lagerfeldt on September 10, 1933 in Hamburg) is a German fashion designer, artist and photographer based in Paris, France. He has collaborated on a variety of fashion and art related projects, most notably as head designer and creative director for the fashion house Chanel. Lagerfeld helms his own label fashion house, as well as the Italian house Fendi. Description above from the Wikipedia article Karl Lagerfeld, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Costume & Make-Up
Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
Birthday: September 10, 1933
Deathday: February 19, 2019
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Gender: Male
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Picture Me
Overview: A documentary filmmaker follows a model for several years, chronicling her rise from a fresh face to one that adorns billboards and magazines around the world. Go behind the scenes and chronicle the glitzy world of high fashion modeling, from photo shoots with celebrated photographers to runway shows in New York, Milan, and Paris.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-19
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The Mysterious Mr. Lagerfeld
Overview: A look at the fashion icon that was Karl Lagerfeld, one of the most flamboyant and recognisable figures in fashion - and one of the most mysterious. His influence was immeasurable, from the Chanel catwalk to the high street - but how many people ever really knew the real Karl Lagerfeld? Weaving investigations in the present with Lagerfeld’s biography – illustrated by illuminating and much unseen archive footage – this film shows his profound and lasting effect on those around him, including his beloved cat Choupette.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-27
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Totally Spies! The Movie
Overview: An origin story of how three high school girls became, like, totally spies.
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-07-22
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Shoot to Live
Overview: A documentary on filmmaker Claude Lelouch, following him over seven years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-05-11
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Catwalk
Overview: A documentary following Christy Turlington and other models during spring fashion week in Milan, Paris and New York.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-08
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For Art's Sake: The Story of Ballets Russes
Overview: In the centenary year since the founding of the Ballets Russe, this documentary looks back at Sergei Diaghilev and the company he created, what they did and the influence they had, even a 100 years later.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-12
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Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's
Overview: It's the most mythic of all American emporiums - and the scene of many an ultimate fashion fantasy. Now audiences get a rarified chance to peek behind the backroom doors and into the reality of the fascinating inner workings and fabulous untold stories from Bergdorf Goodman's iconic history in Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-03
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Mademoiselle C
Overview: A documentary focused on former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief and fashion stylist Carine Roitfeld.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-11
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La Revanche de Bernadette Chirac
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-10-08
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Des hommes stylés
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-07-08
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Chanel Chanel
Overview: Chanel--more than just one of the world's most successful fashion labels, also the name of a woman who led a fascinating life. This Paris designer banished the corset from women's fashion, created the bouclé suit and the famous 'little black dress,' and made costume jewelery socially acceptable. Her elegant but comfortable clothing stressed the new-won freedoms of 1920s women; her perfume made ladies irresistible. Chanel's head designer Karl Lagerfeld explains why her simple style is still today an inspiration. Unique shots and designs from the archives reveal Coco Chanel's passion both for fashion and for life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Lagerfeld - the Kaiser of Fashion
Overview: In the wake of his death, this film explores the fascinating and tumultuous life and career of one of the world’s most iconic fashion designers.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-06
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The First Monday in May
Overview: Chronicles the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's most attended fashion exhibition in history, "China: Through The Looking Glass," an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western fashions by Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-15
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Franca: Chaos and Creation
Overview: Director Francesco Carrozzini creates an intimate portrait of his mother, Franca Sozzani, the legendary editor-in-chief of Italian Vogue. From the ridiculous to the sublime, her astonishing but often controversial magazine covers have not only broken the rules but also set the high bar for fashion, art and commerce over the past 25 years. From the legendary “Black Issue" and the “Plastic Surgery issue" Sozzani remains deeply committed to exploring subject matter off limits to most in order to shake up the status quo and occasionally redefine the concept of beauty.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-02
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Coco Chanel vs Elsa Schiaparelli
Overview: In the 1920s, the rivalry between fashion icon Gabrielle Chanel and her stylistic rival Elsa Schiaparelli gave rise to innovations in haute couture.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-02-06
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Valentino: The Last Emperor
Overview: Film which travels inside the singular world of one of Italy's most famous fashion designers, Valentino Garavani, documenting the colourful and dramatic closing act of his celebrated career and capturing the end of an era in global fashion. However, at the heart of the film is a love story - the unique relationship between Valentino and his business partner and companion of 50 years, Giancarlo Giammetti. Capturing intimate moments in the lives of two of Italy's richest and most famous men, the film lifts the curtain on the final act of a nearly 50-year reign at the top of the glamorous and fiercely competitive world of fashion. (Storyville)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-07
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Lagerfeld Confidential
Overview: For the first time Karl Lagerfeld has agreed to let someone create an artwork on his every day life and to trust in the director. Until today there is no authorised biography existing and the memories who Karl Lagerfeld would compose stay perfectly confidential. After three years of work, and over three hundred hours of footage, Rodolphe Marconi discloses the daily life of the star through his personal lens as a filmmaker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-10
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La Traversée du désir
Overview: What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-03-16
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Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge
Overview: A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big-breasted women are part of the iconography of twentieth-century erotic fantasy. He's on the go from L.A., to Paris, to Monte-Carlo, to Berlin, where he was a youth until he escaped from the Nazis in 1936. We see him on shoots, interviewing models, and discussing his work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-26
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The Gospel According to André
Overview: From the segregated American South to the fashion capitals of the world, operatic fashion editor André Leon Talley's life and career are on full display, in a poignant portrait that includes appearances by Anna Wintour, Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford, Bethann Hardison, Valentino, and Manolo Blahnik.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-18
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52 minutes of fashion by Loïc Prigent
Overview: A 52-minute-long recap of Paris Fashion Week.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-04-03
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Anna Piaggi: Fashion Visionary
Overview: The world of fashion, between the end of the Sixties and the beginning of the Noughties, had a key character that embodied its spirit and told the tale: journalist Anna Piaggi, living witness of that contamination between art, society and culture that changed fashion and sanctioned its success on a global scale. The daughter of a manager for La Rinascente (Milan's iconic high-end shopping mall whose foundation goes back to 1865), Karl Lagerfeld's muse, "a poet with her clothes" in the words of Bill Cunningham, her life is retraced through interviews with designers (Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Stephen Jones, Manolo Blahnik, and more) together with archival images from four decades of fashion history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-06-16
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Lolo
Overview: On holiday in the south of France, chic Parisian sophisticate Violette meets life-loving IT geek Jean-René. Against all odds, there’s a real chemistry between them and at the end of the summer, Jean-René wastes no time in joining his beloved in Paris. But there’s trouble in paradise, and a third party swiftly appears to shatter the couple’s idyll: Lolo, Violette’s ultra-possessive 19-year-old son, who is determined to get rid of his mother’s lover, whatever it takes…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-09-03
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The September Issue
Overview: A documentary chronicling Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's preparations for the 2007 fall-fashion issue.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-28
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L'Amour
Overview: Donna and Jane are two American hippies, searching for sex and romance in Paris but, mainly, rich husbands. Eventually, Donna finds a perfume industrialist, Michael, who wishes to marry her, providing she will accept sharing his special friendship with local gigolo Max. Drama ensues as Michael changes his mind when meeting Jane, but all is well that ends well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-10
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Karl Lagerfeld Sketches His Life
Overview: Karl Lagerfeld, seated at his desk, sketches the events of his life and career with comments and snippets of intimate, lively narratives.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-03-02
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Signé Chanel
Overview: Film adaption of the documentary series with the same name. The documentary deals with haute couture under brilliant leader Karl Lagerfeld.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-03-22
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The Valet
Overview: Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in the photo to claim to his wife that it's not him Elena is seeing but the other man, one François Pignon. Pignon is a modest little man who works as a parking valet. To make the story convincing, Elena has to move in with Pignon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-03-29
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Very Ralph
Overview: The first documentary portrait of fashion icon Ralph Lauren, reveals the man behind the icon and the creation of one of the most successful brands in fashion history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-12
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Fashion Legend: Karl Lagerfeld
Overview: He was incredibly talented: fashion designer, photographer, publisher, interior designer, costume designer, trendsetter, all in one person - Karl Lagerfeld. When he died on February 19, 2019 at the age of 85, it wasn't just the fashion world that was sad. He worked until the end - on new collections, a photo exhibition and book publications. Karl Lagerfeld never allowed himself any creative breaks.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-02-09
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Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
Overview: Sex Fashion and Disco is a documentary film concerning Antonio Lopez (1943-1987), the most influential fashion illustrator of 1970s Paris and New York, and his colorful and sometimes outrageous milieu.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-13
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Rose Palace
Overview: The story of Le Palace, the famous parisian night club in the late seventies. The documentary is a conversation between ex-clients, founders and workers of the place. Owned by Fabrice Emaer, this nightclub became in 1978 the center of the french social life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-15
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