Meet Marie Antoinette's Dresses: Fashionable Facts About ... - PBS
Sep 12, 2023 · To create dozens of luminous dresses for Marie Antoinette (Emilia Schüle), costume designers Madeline Fontaine and Marie Frémont pulled inspiration from both historical and modern sources.
Marie Antoinette: History’s Controversial Fashion Queen
Dec 14, 2021 · In an exquisite royal portrait of the French queen, painted by Vigee Le Brun (who was also a client of Rose Bertin), Marie Antoinette is depicted wearing a simple, unstructured dress made of white muslin, tied at the waist with a ribbon sash.
Marie-Antoinette’s Style Revolution - National Geographic
Nov 1, 2016 · Ornate decorations, rich, dark fabrics, and elaborate, heavy designs dominated courtier couture under the Sun King. After Louis XIV’s death in 1715, clothing styles began to evolve. Fashion took...
Marie Antoinette: The Interiors and Fashion of a Style Icon
Feb 15, 2018 · What was Marie Antoinette’s influence on interior design? Marie Antoinette decorated her interiors around the same principles that one would use when choosing an outfit – or at least an 18th Century outfit, taking the care and attention in …
Why Marie Antoinette's Fashion Influence Is So Enduring
Feb 28, 2020 · It's been well over 200 years since she met her fate at the guillotine, dressed in virginal white—flawless clothing she'd managed to acquire despite spending the previous nine months in a...
À la Creole, en chemise, en gaulle: Marie Antoinette and the …
May 9, 2021 · The key criticism of Marie Antoinette’s La reine en gaulle portrait was that she was wearing imported muslin and not lyonnaise silk. The criticism was so damning that Marie Antoinette was blamed by one contemporary for the loss of ¾ of jobs in the silk factories.
What Marie Antoinette really wore. - Slate Magazine
Nov 3, 2006 · Marie Antoinette was not a beauty (she had the Habsburg jaw); but she was an enchantress, effortlessly wearing the wildest fashions with the utter conviction of a star.
The Fashions and Follies of Marie Antoinette | The New Yorker
Sep 17, 2006 · Dressed for Excess. Marie Antoinette, out of the closet. By Judith Thurman. September 17, 2006. The right saw her as a foreign agent, “l’Autrichienne,” and decried her corrupting influence on...
Queen Marie Antoinette: The Ultimate Fashion Icon
With its fitted bodice and gracefully cascading skirt, this alternative to the heavily layered robe à la française captivated the fashionable elite and forever changed the female silhouette. The Queen's love for striking colors broke free from the traditional French court palette.
A Close Look: Marie Antoinette — Google Arts & Culture
Marie Antoinette wears her powdered hair in “la coiffure à l'enfant,” a casual style she pioneered after the birth of her children. In place of towering “poufs,” hair was cut short around...