The New Look 1x4

[silverstarry]

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1x4: What a Difference
After Paris is liberated by Allied troops, Nazi collaborators, including Coco, face punishment; Christian is conflicted about ever designing again.

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Comments

[alwayspolaris]

I'm not going to read through this or the Swans post to avoid spoilers but are folks generally enjoying this? Is it worth giving it a watch? Visually it looks lovely and I do love Dior's New Look.

[skekzok]

I'll have to watch this completely legally wink wink bc I do love Ben Mendelsohn

[crimps4]

Hearing that they kinda gloss over Coco Chanel's active collaboration?! https://www.heyalma.com/apple-tvs-the-new-look-girlbossifies-coco-chanels-nazi-history/

Not sure I want to watch, in that case.

[bellwetherr]

this was my big concern tbh!!

[crimps4]

look, my great-grandparents were solidly middle-class running a schmatta store in Paris until the war, when they were rounded up because they were Jewish and sent to Drancy and Vittel and other camps in France and by sheer luck were not sent to Auschwitz. When they returned, goyishe so-called friends had stolen the money they had entrusted to them and they had to rebuild their business from scratch, never getting close to what they had pre-war. So from a garment/Jewish perspective, fuuuuck Coco Chanel, hope her designs look good in hell.

[silverstarry]

I was interested in this show because based on the title, I assumed it would focus on Christian Dior. Even though I saw that Juliette Binoche was playing Chanel, I assumed she wouldn't have a huge role (similar to some of the famous names in Feud: Capote vs. the Swans). From the very first episode, she was portrayed much more sympathetically than I expected. If you believe the show, she only got involved with the Germans because she asked someone to help free her nephew and as a result, her collaboration was reluctant, coerced, and/or a result of a German officer being assigned to seduce her.

In this week's episode, which takes place after the war, I thought she would finally see some consequences for her actions or be portrayed less sympathetically but it appears they are sticking with their depiction of her as just a victim of circumstance rather than an active participant. To be honest, I don't understand why they felt the need to include her story in this at all. I would have been happy for this series to have fewer episodes and

[justen]

Still figuring out where I am on this series. I thought it'd be focusing more on the post-war period and more fashion, given the title, but I'll stick it out to see where I end up with it.