Rich Polk for Deadline
Showrunner Todd A. Kessler and executive producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura joined Deadline’s Contenders TV: Los Angeles event to discuss inspiration, casting and balancing facts with fiction for Apple TV+‘s latest historical series The New Look.
The series, set under the Nazi occupation of Paris during WWII, tells the story of fashion designers Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn), Coco Chanel (Juliette Binoche), and their contemporaries as they navigate the horrors of World War II and launch modern fashion. As Dior rises to prominence with his groundbreaking, iconic imprint of beauty and influence, Chanel’s reign as a world-famous fashion designer is jeopardized.
Even in a world mostly comprised of silky fabrics and glittering emblems, bringing a historical drama to life is not without its challenges. Carefully unraveling the…
