‘The New Look’ Showrunner Todd A. Kessler On Painting An Honest Picture Of Coco Chanel And Christian Dior’s Lives In Occupied Paris: “They’re Complex People” — Contenders TV

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‘The New Look’ Showrunner Todd A. Kessler On Painting An Honest Picture Of Coco Chanel And Christian Dior’s Lives In Occupied Paris: “They’re Complex People” — Contenders TV

Showrunner Todd A. Kessler and executive producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura joined Deadline’s Contenders TV: Los Angeles event to discuss inspiration, casting and balancing facts with fiction for Apple TV+’s latest historical series The New Look. The series, set under the Nazi occupation of Paris during WWII, tells the story of fashion designers Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn), Coco Chanel (Juliette Binoche), and their contemporaries as they navi…