Apple TVThe shocking story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries including Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain, and Cristóbal Balenciaga navigated the horrors of World War Il and launched modern fashion.
Apple TV+’s new drama series sets out its stall early. It opens with two captions. “During World War II,” explains the first, “the Germans occupied Paris for four years, forcing the French to submit to Nazi authority and oppression.”“This is the story,” the second tells us, “of how creation helped return spirit and life to the world.” Simplistic, grandiose and absurd to the point of insult – welcome to the world of The New Look.
TV Reviews.Though “The New Look” declares its intent to focus on the aftermath of the war, the clock quickly rewinds to the 1940s. From there, events proceed at a sluggish pace. It takes three full episodes until Paris is liberated, both too much time given the show’s stated interests and not enough to do the Vichy period justice. 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.
