Was it conceivable that so much beauty had arisen from the ashes of the Second World War?” So asks the author Justine Picardie in Miss Dior, her 2021 biography of Catherine Dior's relationship with her brother Christian. How could a man who lived through the terror of occupied Paris, whose cherished French Resistance sister was imprisoned by the Nazis, produce a collection just two years after the armistice that would prove to be one of our most enduring testaments to femininity and grace? In The New Look, this month's most anticipated new costume drama, the answer is: how could he have created anything else?
“He really wanted to soothe and bring back a and enunciates each syllable of that last word like gunfire. Mendelsohn is talking from his home in “La La”, as he calls it, in front of the kitchen where, five years ago, and creator Todd Kessler made Mendelsohn a pizza and wondered, open-endedly, if the actor might be interested in portraying one of the most important fashion designers in history on screen. “I said, ‘When do we do it?’” Mendelsohn says with a grin. He breezily admits he knew absolutely nothing whatsoever about the story of Christian Dior and his sister at the time. But the opportunity to spend eight months in Paris, steeped in everyday elegance and history, was enticing. “You are the first person I am talking to about this,” Mendelsohn adds, delightedly. “You are the kick-off. And I couldn't be happier that it's Oz .”
