“For those who lived through the chaos of war,” says Christian Dior to an audience of students in 1955, “four years’ Nazi occupation, darkest days of our lives. And yes, we did sell our designs to Nazi wives and girlfriends. There is the truth”—pause—“but there is always another truth that lives behind it.” The New Look, a stunning new television series created by Todd A. Kessler for Apple TV+, is about that other truth. Cutting between the couture’s pre-war queen and postwar king—between Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel and Dior—the first 11 minutes of The New Look set up a counterpoint that carries us through 10 episodes, from breadlines in 1943, where the story really begins, to the day of February 12, 1947, when the house of Christian Dior opened. Juliette Binoche, in a bravura performance, is wily Chanel. Ben Mendelsohn is cast as Dior, and while he doesn’t resemble the rounder, prematurely balding designer, he’s found the man’s soul. —Laura Jacobs