“
Darling, please.”
I don't care about other designers.
They bore me.
Always have.
(…) - But Mademoiselle Chanel, it’s Christian Dior!
» (“Darling, please, I don’t care about other couturiers. Always have. (…) – But Mademoiselle, it’s Christian Dior!”).
From the first lines of
The New Look
(broadcast today on the Apple TV+ platform), almost everything is said.
First, Coco Chanel has a nasty retort and a grudge against her colleagues, Dior in particular.
Poor Christian… Then, although the action takes place between 1943 and 1955 almost exclusively in Paris, the land of couturiers, everyone speaks in English!
Starting point for this biopic in ten episodes directed by Todd A. Kessler, the conference given at the Sorbonne on August 3, 1955 by Mr. Dior and the question from a student on the fact that he continued to design the dresses of the Lucien Lelong house sold to the “wives” of the Nazis.
With lots of flashbacks, the designer…
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