In “The New Look,” an Apple TV+ show premiering Feb. 14, wine glasses are never empty, cigarettes are always half-smoked and everyone is thin.
The series follows two titans of French fashion, Christian Dior and Coco Chanel, after all, toward the end of World War II.
But this glamorous portrayal of Paris’s creative milieu is also interested in how the French elite collaborated with their Nazi occupiers during this contested period.
It offers a startling throwback to a time when swastika-stamped flags hung over the streets of Paris.
From 1940 to 1944, the French Vichy regime collaborated with the Nazis and deported over 70,000 Jews to death camps, sent French workers to Germany and tried to crush the French resistance.
Persons:
Christian Dior, Coco Chanel, Chanel, Juliette Binoche, Hans Günther von Dincklage, Claes Bang
Organizations:
Apple, French Vichy, Ritz, Nazi
Locations:
Paris, French, Germany