Chris Connor reviews the season finale of The New Look… The first season of The New Look draws to a close as we finish Christian Dior’s recount of the early years of his fashion house. This episode sees Dior’s rapid rise and a fall from grace for Coco Chanel as her actions and alliances come […]
The New Look Episode 9 Review – ‘Will You Return’
Chris Connor reviews the ninth episode of The New Look… The New Look gears up for a finale with a look to the past and hints of the future as both Dior and Chanel look to cement their legacy and find ways out of their respective situations. Christian is short on staff to meet his […]
The New Look Episode 8 Review – ‘I Love You Most of All’
Chris Connor reviews the eighth episode of The New Look… The New Look ups the ante in its eighth episode with a scene stealing guest role for Glenn Close as legendary Harper’s Bazaar Editor Carmel Snow. Her involvement in this episode, seeking out an icon to define Parisian fashion post-war, reminds us of the towering […]
The New Look Episode 7 Review – ‘It All Came True’
Chris Connor reviews the seventh episode of The New Look… The New Look’s seventh episode has the scattered approach of the previous episodes, split between Coco returning to Paris in secret, Catherine helping repatriate those in the camps and Christian deciding on his future, cutting ties with Lucien Lelong. It still feels quite melodramatic but […]
The New Look Episode 6 Review – ‘If You Believed in Me’
Chris Connor reviews the sixth episode of The New Look… The New Look has at times struggled for focus in its first season with the focus on the rise of Christian Dior and the fall of Coco Chanel. The sixth episode seems to find more of a balance giving both storylines a prominent focus with […]
The New Look Episode 5 Review – ‘Give Your Heart and Soul to Me’
Chris Connor reviews the fifth episode of The New Look… After what has been a somewhat uneven start to The New Look, Ben Mendelsohn’s Christian Dior takes centre stage in an episode where he grapples with his future as a fashion designer while coming to terms with whether or not his sister Catherine will be […]
The New Look Episode 4 Review – ‘What a Difference’
Chris Connor reviews the fourth episode of The New Look… The New Look’s fourth episode sees events move post-war as France has been liberated. The scars of the war linger for all to see with Coco Chanel implicated by her involvement with the Nazis during the war and sought out by the new authorities. Christian […]
The New Look – Episodes 1-3 Review
Chris Connor reviews the first three episodes of Apple TV+’s The New Look… Coco Chanel and Christian Dior remain icons of the fashion world and household names, decades on from their peak. What is less widely discussed perhaps is the work either did during the Second World War when Paris was under Nazi occupation and […]
Ben Mendelsohn, Juliette Binoche, Maisie Williams and John Malkovich star in trailer for Apple TV+ fashion drama The New Look
Apple Studios has unveiled the trailer for The New Look, their new high-end series that reveals the 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 II and launched modern fashion. The New Look features episodes directed by Todd […]
