Names like Dior, Chanel, Balmain, and Balenciaga have been associated with luxury goods and high fashion for many years. However, you should reconsider if The New Look is the kind of series you were hoping to see on the complexities of fashion.
Ben Mendelsohn plays Christian Dior, the fashion designer, and Juliette Binoche plays Coco Chanel, the matriarch of the House of Chanel.
Maisie Williams from Game of Thrones as Catherine Dior, John Malkovich as Lucien Lelong, and Claes Bang from Bad Sisters as Spatz (Baron Hans Gunther von Dincklage) are featured in the cast.
The New Look centers on the choices the designers had to make while living under Nazi control at Paris’s haute couture fashion businesses during World War Two.
The Sopranos and Bloodline creator Todd A. Keller devised the series, which is centered on Christian Dior’s ascent to fame in the fashion industry.
