Costume designer Karen Muller Serreau on reviving designs from Dior and Chanel and more for the Apple TV+ series.
Fashion, like art, exists in a moment in time. It’s easy to look back at Christian Dior’s oeuvre and praise its silhouettes and fabrics, but to really understand what it means, it is important to consider what it meant at the time. The new Apple TV+ series The New Look contextualizes Dior’s story within the larger cultural context of 1930s and ’40s Paris. France was grappling with World War II. Couturiers like Cristóbal Balenciaga and Coco Chanel ruled the scene.
How do they do that? I imagine textile artists using a lot of sandpaper!Basically there’s that, but a lot of other things as well. Textile artists paint bits on. They burn things, they can paint shadows in places, put bits of fluff and dust on the seams. There’s a lot of things they can do.Who was the hardest character to get right?Coco Chanel had quite a lot of getting right. There wasn’t a huge amount of photo documentation of her from that period, so a lot of it was inspiration.
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