Director: Todd A. Kessler
Paris, 1947: the war is over, the fabric is scarce, and a quiet tailor named Christian Dior is about to upend everything the fashion world thought it knew about beauty.
What is The New Look about?
The New Look follows Dior in the years immediately after Nazi-occupied France, when the industry he loved lay in ruins alongside the country itself. As he weighs whether to strike out on his own, the series sets his cautious rise against the entrenched reign of Coco Chanel, whose wartime choices haunt her long after liberation. Ben Mendelsohn plays Dior as a man torn between personal loyalty and professional ambition, while Juliette Binoche's Chanel fights to reclaim relevance and reputation at once. Around them, the show widens its lens to the atelier workers, muses, and rival houses that made Paris the center of the sewing needle and the moral reckoning both. Rather than a straight costume-drama biopic, it treats fashion as a language for grief, survival, and reinvention after catastrophe.
Cast & crew
Mendelsohn brings a restrained, almost reluctant intensity to Dior, letting the character's self-doubt show through small gestures rather than speeches. Binoche's Chanel is prickly and unsentimental, refusing easy redemption. Maisie Williams, John Malkovich, Emily Mortimer, and Claes Bang fill out a supporting circle of designers, spies, and survivors whose fates tangle with the two leads across the decade.
Context & significance
Series creator Todd A. Kessler builds the show around real postwar fashion history, threading in Chanel's controversial wartime associations and Dior's own quieter compromises. The production leans on period-accurate ateliers and garment work to root its drama in craft rather than glamour alone.
Where & how to watch
The New Look streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles available, and the full episode library is playable once you're logged in with a free account. The interface and browsing experience are built for Farsi-speaking viewers from the ground up.