The New Look Episode 10 Review [Video]

Chris Connor reviews the season finale of The New Look…

The first season of The New Look draws to a close as we finish Christian Dior’s recount of the early years of his fashion house. This episode sees Dior’s rapid rise and a fall from grace for Coco Chanel as her actions and alliances come back to haunt her. Dior has poached from some of Paris’ other major fashion houses, to compensate for the lack of seamstresses. This causes contention with Lucien Lelong among others.

This episode feels like a culmination, rather than simply a tease for a second season, this is to its credit. It deftly wraps up its narratives and arcs in a satisfying fashion. Coco still bereft from the death of Elsa, comes to blows with Spatz and Andre about her past Nazi alliances, causing seemingly irreparable rifts. This looks set to be something that will be addressed in future and how she came …