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Jared Letois bringing his love for fashion to the screen.
On Thursday,Women’s Wear Dailyrevealed that the Oscar winner will lead as the late German fashion designer and industry titanKarl Lagerfeld, whodied of pancreatic cancer at 85 in February 2019, in a new biopic.
“I feel like this is a full-circle moment and Karl would be proud of what we are doing,” Leto shared withWWDon portraying the former creative director of Chanel.
Leto has appointed three of Lagerfeld’s confidants — CEO of Karl Lagerfeld Pier Paolo Righi, senior vice president of the house’s image and communications Caroline Lebar, and Lagerfeld’s personal assistant and bodyguard Sébastien Jondeau — as executive producers.
The film has yet to announce a director yet the storyline will capture “key relationships in Karl Lagerfeld’s life, told through an unpredictable lens, much like the man himself,” his eponymous label toldWWD.
“My role is to portray him on screen as honestly as possible,” Leto continued, which he hopes will dive into the dimensional character of the famous style icon.
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The Golden Globe winner, 50, has cemented himself in Hollywood’s sartorial world before, previouslyportraying Paolo Gucci in the 2021 crime dramaHouse of Gucci.
Leto has also pushed the envelope with his red carpet style, notably at theMet Galawhere he’sliterally doubled downandmade headlineswith his avant-garde ensembles.
The news of the biopic also comes at great timing, coinciding with the big reveal of the2023 Met Gala theme, which will center around Lagerfeld and his innovative work.
Titled “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty,” the exhibit will showcase around 150 of Lagerfeld’s greatest outfits across his prolific six decade career — designs he made while working for brands like Balmain, Patou, Chloé, Fendi, Chanel and his own eponymous label, according to a press release from the Met.
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“Every single design in his life was a sketch,” Bolton told CNN after the announcement. “And when I saw the drawings, I thought, ‘These are so charming, so whimsical, so impressionistic.’ But what I didn’t realize was that they contained really precise information — about a shoulder line or the length of a sleeve. And (his staff) knew exactly what this line meant or what that dot meant, and they could decode it.”
source: people.com
