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The New Look Series-Premiere Recap: Longing for Survival
Christian Dior and Coco Channel have very, very different approaches to surviving in Nazi-occupied Paris.
The House of Dior, now owned by French luxury goods conglomerate LVMH, has employed some of the greatest minds in fashion history, including Yves Saint Laurent and John Galliano. Motivated by a resentment for the Wertheimers, her Jewish business partners who fled France before the occupation and likely by her desire for power and comfort as well as her attraction to Spatz, the chatty Chanel is quite agreeable and freely gives the Nazis information, including her (former) closeness to British prime minister Winston Churchill, which, in episode two, sends her on a mission to Madrid. • If you’re intrigued by the true events as portrayed in episodes one to three of The New Look, I recommend the books Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel’s Secret War(2012) by Hal Vaughan and Miss Dior: A Wartime Story of Courage and Couture by Justine Picardie.
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