{"id":608625,"date":"2024-02-14T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-wwii-fashion-drama-is-a-poor-fit\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:15:00","slug":"watch-wwii-fashion-drama-is-a-poor-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-wwii-fashion-drama-is-a-poor-fit\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch WWII Fashion Drama Is a Poor Fit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41558064026\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41558064026\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-wwii-fashion-drama-is-a-poor-fit\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_WWII_Fashion_Drama_Is_a_Poor_Fit%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online WWII Fashion Drama Is a Poor Fit&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-wwii-fashion-drama-is-a-poor-fit\/#%E2%80%9CWWII_Fashion_Drama_Is_a_Poor_Fit%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;WWII Fashion Drama Is a Poor Fit&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_WWII_Fashion_Drama_Is_a_Poor_Fit%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online WWII Fashion Drama Is a Poor Fit&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWWII_Fashion_Drama_Is_a_Poor_Fit%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;WWII Fashion Drama Is a Poor Fit&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    World War II is well-worn territory for prestige TV, but at first blush, \u201cThe New Look\u201d has a novel way in. The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>le TV+ drama, created by Todd A. Kessler of \u201cBloodline,\u201d traces the conflict\u2019s impact on the Paris-based fashion industry, focusing on two titans of the craft: Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn) and Coco Chanel (Juliette Binoche), both founders of legendary houses that persist to this day. For the purposes of \u201cThe New Look,\u201d which begins with the French capital under Nazi occupation, these peers are also foils. Dior is a sensitive dreamer whose younger sister, Catherine (Maisie Williams), joined the anti-German Resistance and spent time in the Ravensbr\u00fcck concentration camp. Chanel is a shrewd, self-made entrepreneur who infamously collaborated with the Nazis, a relationship previously explored in the 2011 biography \u201cSleeping With the Enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In a title card, \u201cThe New Look\u201d introduces itself as \u201cthe story of how creation helped return spirit and life to the world.\u201d The title comes from Dior\u2019s legendary debut collection in 1947, featuring cinched waists and full skirts that announced a pendulum swing from wartime austerity to mid-century elegance. Not that you would know that from <em>watching <\/em>\u201cThe New Look,\u201d which shows minimal interest in the details of what made Dior a master artisan, nor Chanel a successful entrepreneur. The contrast between the brutality of war and fragility of art is an ideal subject for extended study. With 10 hours at its disposal, \u201cThe New Look\u201d has space both to argue for the value of a seemingly trivial indulgence and reckon with how aesthetic beauty can disguise moral ugliness. Sadly, the show does neither, instead focusing on the most familiar aspects of its setting while underserving those that could set it apart.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Though \u201cThe New Look\u201d declares its intent to focus on the aftermath of the war, the clock quickly rewinds to the 1940s. From there, events proceed at a sluggish pace. It takes three full episodes until Paris is liberated,\u00a0both too much time given the show\u2019s stated interests and not enough to do the Vichy period justice. Dior spends the war working in the atelier of his mentor Lucien Lelong (John Malkovich \u2014\u00a0same halting delivery, different accent), sustaining the French fashion apparatus by dressing the wives of German officers. Chanel initially makes the less compromised choice to shutter her business, only to strike up an affair with a high-ranking Nazi (Claes Bang) and attempt to use the Aryan Laws to wrest control of the company from her Jewish partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Given how these actions hover over both designers as the season progresses, \u201cThe New Look\u201d could have used a dual-timeline structure that juxtaposes trauma and recovery. Lingering on the occupation emphasizes the trauma at the expense of fashion, the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>\u2019 ostensible subject. With Chanel holed up at the Ritz and Dior still an anonymous apprentice, the show initially foregrounds Catherine\u2019s subterfuge, capture and detention. The subplot both hews to well-worn tropes of heroic defiance and typecasts the former Arya Stark as yet another rebellious fighter ripped apart from her family. Chanel\u2019s lover is nicknamed Spatz, but he might as well be dubbed The Prick, Bang\u2019s equally awful villain in \u201cBad Sisters.\u201d \u201cThe New Look\u201d takes the same unimaginative approach to filling these roles as it does to portraying the creative process, rendered via Dior as an unspecific need for space and inspiration at the cost of close relationships.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Mendelsohn, by contrast, is woefully <em>mis<\/em>cast as the up-and-coming couturier. Kessler may have a rapport with the actor from their \u201cBloodline\u201d days, but the 54-year-old Australian is unconvincing as the fresh face of a new generation, and doubly so as the older sibling of the 26-year-old Williams. (Dior is also meant to be nipping at the heels of the already-established Chanel, though Binoche is just five years her castmate\u2019s senior.) Mendelsohn has a weathered face and gravelly voice that doesn\u2019t square with the tender-hearted Dior, who becomes emotionally dependent on his tarot reader and balks at the idea of poaching employees from his friends. Said friends include fellow designers Cristob\u00e1l Balenciaga (Nuno Lopes) and Pierre Balmain (Thomas Poitevin), who each get exactly one note of personality: Balmain is hot-headed; Pierre Cardin (Elliott Margueron) is eccentric. Their actual contributions to the field go entirely unexplored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Yet these problems pale in comparison to how \u201cThe New Look\u201d approaches Chanel and her connection to the Third Reich. The show doesn\u2019t shy away from depicting the collaboration itself, which includes the attempted seizure of her business as well as attempted espionage under the codename Agent Westminster. Yet its portrait of Chanel is strangely soft. The mogul may be selfish, hypocritical and opportunistic, but she\u2019s almost never shown to be overtly prejudiced, apart from a single antisemitic remark directed at her co-founder turned antagonist Pierre Wertheimer (Charles Berling). Rather than arising from a shared worldview, her alliance with the Nazis is played almost passively, as a woman succumbing to the pressures of a historical moment without fully considering the consequences. It\u2019s an awfully generous interpretation of actively abetting a genocidal regime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    After the war, Chanel flees to Switzerland to avoid prosecution, as she did in real life. There, Chanel refuses to admit to or reckon with her betrayals. Such denial is psychologically plausible, yet awfully dull to watch for hours on end, giving Binoche little to do except tearfully rant about what her character is owed to her frenemy Elsa Lombari (a perpetually sloshed Emily Mortimer). \u201cThe New Look\u201d comes dangerously close to indulging Chanel\u2019s self-pitying conflation of well-deserved judgment with sexism or ageism. The opening flash-forward also shows Chanel back at the forefront of Paris couture, undercutting any hints of comeuppance while setting up an unearned triumph. A quarter century into the antihero era, \u201cThe New Look\u201d is somehow reluctant to highlight Chanel\u2019s worst qualities. The result lacks either the moral clarity or the emotional nuance required of this material. Between its lack of a handle on Chanel and lack of attention to her or Dior\u2019s actual gifts, one wonders what \u201cThe New Look\u201d wanted to be to begin with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    <em>The first three episodes of \u201cThe New Look\u201d premiere on Apple TV+ on Feb. 14, with remaining episodes streaming weekly on Wednesdays.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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