Just when you thought telly didn’t get fashion, this year is fit to burst with glossy dramas retelling the life stories of some of its most notable figures (next month AppleTV+ will launch The New Look, based in Paris during WW2, while a Karl Lagerfeld biopic will air later this year on Disney+). Given its predilection to the ridiculous, it's always refreshing when fashion is taken seriously as a subject.
The first of these mid-century-set series is Disney+’s six part serious deep dive into the life and fashionable times of Cristóbal Balenciaga (Alberto San Juan), the Basque-born Spaniard feted as ‘the master’ of Parisian haute couture.
