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WWII Fashion Drama ‘The New Look’ Is a Poor Fit for Its Material: TV Review
The Paris-set fashion drama stars Ben Mendelsohn and Juliette Binoche as famed designers Christian Dior and Coco Chanel.
The Apple TV+ drama, created by Todd A. Kessler of “Bloodline,” traces the conflict’s impact on the Paris-based fashion industry, focusing on two titans of the craft: Christian Dior ( Ben Mendelsohn) and Coco Chanel ( Juliette Binoche), both founders of legendary houses that persist to this day. Dior spends the war working in the atelier of his mentor Lucien Lelong (John Malkovich — same halting delivery, different accent), sustaining the French fashion apparatus by dressing the wives of German officers. Chanel’s lover is nicknamed Spatz, but he might as well be dubbed The Prick, Bang’s equally awful villain in “Bad Sisters.” “The New Look” takes the same unimaginative approach to filling these roles as it does to portraying the creative process, rendered via Dior as an unspecific need for space and inspiration at the cost of close relationships.
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