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The New Look’s finale aired last Wednesday, and some wonder if a second season is possible. Creator Todd A. Kessler spoke about the drama’s future in a recent interview with THR.
The biographical drama series, which stars Ben Mendelsohn, Juliette Binoche, Maisie Williams, John Malkovich, Emily Mortimer, Claes Bang, and Glenn Close, follows the life of renowned French fashion designer Christian Dior (Mendelsohn). Season one ended with the release of his 1947 collection.
Kessler said the following about what he’d like to see in future seasons of the Apple TV+ series:
“As with the other series that I’ve created in Bloodline and Damages, we begin with the notion that it could go five or six seasons. So this series would follow the life of Christian Dior.
You would then follow Christian Dior in his tremendous, overnight, unprecedented success in the second season, and what actually befalls him, how he deals with that success. He’s coming to America for the first time. He’s going to Dallas. [Former Neiman Marcus president and CEO] Stanley Marcus, had a fashion awards, and Christian Dior won designer of the year and was brought to Dallas. So you have someone who’s never been out of France, going to Dallas, Texas — your imagination can take you where it might, a Frenchman not understanding the food, not understanding this whole world of Texas. And he was also in New York. So it follows Dior’s life and[Coco] Chanel’s life.
And eventually when Dior dies 10 years into his fashion house, which would be potentially in a subsequent season to the second, there’s a hand off to Yves Saint Laurent, who was his protégé, and Dior had trained Saint Laurent from the time he was 19 to 21. And when Dior dies, Saint Laurent takes over Dior, the world’s most profitable, influential fashion house, at the age of 21. And the series would go on to follow the life of Yves Saint Laurent up until the ’80s. And we would then get the deaths of [Pierre] Balmain, [Cristóbal] Balenciaga, Chanel in due time and how the fashion industry, for the first time ever, handed over fashion houses to other designers to design under the name of the founder. So that hadn’t happened prior to Dior dying.”
What do you think? Have you watched The New Look on Apple TV+? Do you want to see a second season of the drama series?
