The New Look (Apple TV+)

[The Byronic Boy]

Maisie is promoting it in her UK Bazaar interview and in the ed she is wearing Dior only. Is it sponsored by the brand? They did books, they did exhibitions, is it turn of movies now to brainwash lemmings?

I don't think Dior sponsored the show (but I'm sure they "assisted" with their archives). The creator of the show also created Damages. I doubt he was sought out and hired by Dior (much less Chanel) to create this show. I think if Dior, the brand, actually influenced the show they wouldn't have looked at Ben Mendelsohn and thought "ah, yes... now THERE'S Christian Dior!!!"

Radio Times 10-16 February 2024 Digital Issue

 

[Zorka]

As it stands, "The New Look" is a series that successfully captures the utter horrors of war alongside the beauty of creation. The severity of one only emphasizes the gravity of the other. Together, they make something breathtaking, heartbreaking, and entirely worth watching! ❤️

 

[KoV]

As it stands, "The New Look" is a series that successfully captures the utter horrors of war alongside the beauty of creation. The severity of one only emphasizes the gravity of the other. Together, they make something breathtaking, heartbreaking, and entirely worth watching! ❤️

Josh Sharpe from Paste Magazine had.... um, *very* similar thoughts on the show.


metacritic.com

 

[LadyJunon]

Looks absolutely ridiculous and i'm sure it will be revisionist and feminist, and destined to the dust bin of entertainment history.

Oh no, not feminist.

So, totally on brand for post-2016 Dior, then.

 

[gallianostan]

Josh Sharpe from Paste Magazine had.... um, *very* similar thoughts on the show.


metacritic.com

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[MyNameIs]

This looks so dull to me.

 

[blueorchid]

I’m attempting to watch the first episode. Seriously, Ben Mendelsohn’s casting as Dior is an abomination.

Balenciaga remains the superior fashion series of 2024.

 

[ElectricCher]

I'm more surprised that he was filmed with a full head of hair. Even in his younger days Christian Dior didn't have a big mane of hair.

💯! Baffled by the head of hair…it’s as distracting as the Franco-Brit accents.

 

[CommanderTMugler]

Watching it now… right after Balenciaga…Disney really tackled fashion during and after WW2 better than this.
Now the actual events, sure, inspired, yet no digging into the actual couture, it’s only the background. With Balenciaga, couture remains the core.

The New Look is aimed toward an old boomer hoping to see what WWII in France is, not an actual fashion afficianado.

 

[CommanderTMugler]

Masie Williams is doing a spectacular job and I am loving her current promo campaign, never expected this of her yet she’s delivering it.

 

[blueorchid]

I couldn't make it through the first episode. The absurdity of Balenciaga sitting with... Balmain and Dior WHEN THEY WERE *ASSISTANTS* to Lucien Lelong was too stupid. I know just enough about this era of fashion that this show is painful. Let me guess, the show doesn't even include the Théâtre de la Mode dolls? *shudder*

 

[blueorchid]

💯! Baffled by the head of hair…it’s as distracting as the Franco-Brit accents.

It really makes you wonder if anyone working on the show had ever seen a photo of Dior?


Galerie Dior

 

[gallianostan]

juliette binoche as chanel is some of the worst casting i've ever seen. my god. i couldn't make it past the first five minutes the whole thing is so bad.

 

[blueorchid]

I'm attempting to watch the rest of the first three episodes this morning. The Catherine Dior plot is genuinely interesting, there's a real story worth telling there, but they're trying to do too much. Some of the details are so wrong...

 

[blueorchid]

Oh, this is painful. ON WHAT PLANET DID BALENCIAGA AND DIOR SHARE A CHOCOLATE BAR IN 1943... I'M... SPEECHLESS.




I'm going to keep watching the series until they introduce Pierre Cardin, one of my favourite fashion personalities.

 

[blueorchid]

Watching the fourth episode now, which I oddly find more tolerable than the first three. Not the show pretending the Théâtre de la Mode dolls weren't Robert Ricci's idea.

 

[caioherrero]

Gosh

 

[blueorchid]

Decided I should finish this show before my AppleTV subscription expires next week... it never gets better.

 

[blueorchid]

I've been left utterly speechless by how horrible this show was.

I finally watched the last episode and, oh boy... this was, imho, one of the WORST shows/films about fashion I have ever seen. I'm just going to describe the last few minutes... for some reason, Cristobal Balenciaga is in the front row of Dior's first show (#thathappened)??? Losing his sh*t??? It cuts between scenes of the audience going wild in the maison, Chanel being led off somewhere (oh yeah, she's still in the show...), Christian getting the show ready... with the final piece being the Bar Suit. I would rather watch Ewan McGregor saying "I'm HAL-ston" on repeat before re-watching this dreck.



Then the Bar Suit goes out and it changes the world, etc.



Then it ends with....... a f*cking collage of Dior through the years? Okay............. (they don't even include a photo of the trapeze dress, but that's neither here NOR there)








What a corny disaster. Embarrassing.