Hot on the heels of Disney+’s evocative series charting the life and fashionable times of Cristóbal Balenciaga comes the next in a vogue for fashion-tainment. The New Look also features the Basque emigrée Balenciaga, but focuses acutely on the lives and rivalries of Christian Dior and Coco Chanel during World War II.
The lavish, sweeping drama is the brainchild of Todd A. Kessler, the show runner behind legal thriller Damages and Bloodline, Netflix’s Floridian family saga, which if you endured you’ll recognise Mr Dior from. Ben Mendelsohn, who played the errant elder brother in that series, appears as the couturier here.
