The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday edition that Apple TV+'s The New Look goes deep into the dark histories of two of fashion's most famous faces: Christian Dior and Coco Chanel. In a Globe special, Amber Dowling writes that the 10-part series stars Ben Mendelsohn and Juliette Binoche as the respective designers and traces their journeys in Nazi-occupied France and after the war. The two rarely intersect but are connected by world events that thrust them on unexpected trajectories. At the time of the occupation, Mr. Dior is an up-and-coming designer working for Lucien Lelong (played here by John Malkovich). He is forced to design gowns for Nazis and their sympathizers under this arrangement, all while his sister Catherine Dior (Maisie Williams) operates with the resistance from his apartment. When she is picked up and interrogated early in the series, Mr. Dior becomes desperate and obsessed with saving her. Simultaneously, Chanel is a Parisian celebrity targeted by the Nazis, who are holding her beloved nephew, André Palasse (Joseph Olivennes), as a prisoner of war. The separation of stories sometimes feels jarring, and you cannot help but want more scenes between these legendary figures and actors.