The New Look is an upcoming American biographical drama television series created by
Todd A. Kessler for Apple TV+. A second season is in development.
The series
depicts Christian Dior in Paris after World War II when he created his fashion
line that unofficially got named New Look.
It was
announced in February 2022 that Apple TV+ had greenlit the project, which has
the potential to become an anthology series. Todd A. Kessler was set to write,
direct and executive produce, with Ben Mendelsohn and Juliette Binoche
starring. In May, Maisie Williams would join the cast,[8] with John Malkovich,
Emily Mortimer, and Claes Bang added in June.
Filming for
the first season began by May 2022 in Paris.
The second
season was set to begin filming in November 2023 before the 2023 SAG-AFTRA
strike.
Release
The series
is set to be released with the first three episodes on February 14, 2024,
followed by one episode every Wednesday through April 3.
From Balenciaga to Dior, TV series celebrate
haute couture in 2024
Dominique
Muret
Dec 22,
2023
Two
legendary fashion designers are in the spotlight on the small screen at the
start of 2024. In January, the series Cristóbal Balenciaga, retracing the rise
of the Spanish designer, will be released on the Disney+ streaming platform,
while in February, The New Look, recounting the epic story of Christian Dior,
will be broadcast on Apple TV+. Two mythical stories of French couture, which
intertwine across the same century in Paris with the same protagonists. Like
Coco Chanel, played by Anouk Grinberg in the first series, and Juliette Binoche
in the second.
This
essentially Spanish project looks at the life of Cristóbal Balenciaga, who
arrived in Paris in 1937 fleeing the Spanish Civil War, where he left behind a
brilliant career as a tailor and fashion designer in San Sebastian and Madrid.
This original series, inspired by his life, is produced by the Spaniard Xavier
Berzosa via the production companies Moriarti Produkzioak and Irusoin
production, and created by Lourdes Iglesias and the three directors Aitor
Arregi, Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga.
In the
title role is Spanish actor Alberto San Juan, surrounded by other Spanish
actors and an international cast. In addition to Anouk Grinberg, the cast
includes French actors Patrice Thibaud as Christian Dior, Anne-Victoire Olivier
as Audrey Hepburn, Nine d'Urso as model Colette and Canadian Gabrielle Lazure
as Harper's Bazaar editor-in-chief Carmel Snow, played by Glenn Close in The
New Look.
Arriving in
Paris in 1937, the Spanish couturier, renowned for his rigorous work on
silhouettes and volumes, closed his house in 1968. Reopened in 1986, it was
acquired by the Kering group in 2001 and is now run by Demna (real name Demna
Gvasalia). The series plunges into the world of "this enigmatic man of
extraordinary talent who defied the conventions of his time and revolutionised
the world of fashion", as Disney+ sums up in a press release.
The film
also recalls Christian Dior's arrival on the Paris fashion scene in the late
1940s. So The New Look comes at just the right time to shed a different light
on this fervent couture era in the middle of the 20th century. This ten-part
American series is produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Todd A. Kessler.
The story
follows the career of the iconic French couturier, from his beginnings during
the Occupation to the post-war period and the genesis of his famous "New
Look", while also evoking his rivalry with Coco Chanel. Christian Dior,
whose house has been relaunched by LVMH, is played by Australian Ben
Mendelsohn, best known for starring in the crime drama Animal Kingdom.
As in the
series about Balenciaga, we meet the protagonists of the period, including
fashion designers Lucien Lelong played by John Malkovich, Pierre Balmain by
Thomas Poitevin... and Cristóbal Balenciaga by Nuno Lopes, while British
actress Maisie Williams plays the designer's sister, Catherine Dior.
It's an
intense way to relive an exciting and influential period in French fashion,
while we await the sequel, The Kaiser, about Karl Lagerfeld, due to be released
next year on Disney+.
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