Ben Mendelsohn steps onto the catwalk as Christian Dior in the trailer for the new limited series “The New Look,” released by Apple TV+ on Wednesday.
The clip sets the scene for the intense competition Dior faced from contemporaries Coco Chanel (Juliette Binoche), Lucien Lelong (John Malkovich) and others such as Cristóbal Balenciaga, Pierre Cardin, Hubert de Givenchy and Pierre Balmain.
“Parisian couture could influence how thousands of ordinary women dream and live,” Glenn Close’s Carmel Snow says in the trailer. “But fashion needs a new leader. A figurehead.”
The historical drama series, inspired by true events and filmed exclusively in Paris, spotlights fashion designers Christian Dior, Coco Chanel and their contemporaries as they survived World War II and went on to influence modern fashion.