New trailer for Disney+'s BECOMING KARL LAGERFELD starring Daniel Brühl as Karl Lagerfeld.
How far along in Lagerfeld's life is this going to go? Does it go through 2011 when he acquired his beloved cat Choupette??
We honour Choupette!
-After stepping away from it for weeks, I finally finished AppleTV+'s THE NEW LOOK starring Ben Mendelsohn and Juliette Binoche as Christian Dior and Coco Chanel.
I held off on watching THE NEW LOOK because I kept unfairly comparing it to the exquisite Disney+ Espana series CRISTÓBAL BALENCIAGA. as both shows cover the same time period and Coco Chanel features heavily in CRISTÓBAL BALENCIAGA, with only a few appearances of Christian Dior. Both the shows are different in scope with CRISTÓBAL BALENCIAGA diving into the man and his designs, whereas the first half of THE NEW LOOK is about the toll the German occupation took on Dior and his family (with his younger sister Catherine, in the Resistance, being captured and put in a work camp) and Chanel's relationship with a Nazi liaison (played with fiendish excellence by Claes Bang).
The last half of the series stills deals in Chanel's collaboration with the Nazis and the repercussions of that, but moves onto Dior's trepidatious move unto having his own boutique.
The closest thing the series gets to a true homage to fashion is a look at the origin of Théâtre de la Mode which was a doll fashion show that took place at the Louvre's Marsan Pavilion. The episode ends with the names of the designers who participated in it and it just a stunning reminder of the legacy these designers - how their names live on.
Some of the first bodies to showcase Paris couturiers’ post-occupation designs were 27-inch-tall dolls, presented as part of a traveling exh
