Maisie Williams Unpacks the ‘All-Consuming’ Job of Playing Catherine Dior in ‘The New Look’

British actress Maisie Williams was familiar with the dramatic and celebrated 1947 Dior fashion collection that gave the Apple TV drama series “The New Look” its name. But the 26-year-old performer who came to Hollywood’s attention at the age of 14 in “Game of Thrones” didn’t know the story of Catherine Dior, the sister and muse of famed couturier Christian Dior (played by Ben Mendelsohn).

Both Diors lived in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, when Catherine was a member of the French Resistance who helped hide Jews. She was arrested by the gestapo in 1944 and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp for women in Germany, later moving to several other camps before the U.S.