Fashion Queen: The Untold Story of Marie Antoinette
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Fashion Queen: The Untold Story of Marie Antoinette
19.99 €
A spoiled aristocrat who, according to legend, advised her subjects to eat cakes if there was no bread? Or maybe a rebel who went against the foundations of the French monarchy and, despite everything, became a style icon? Or a tragic figure, a hostage of circumstances and an innocent victim of the French Revolution?
Fashion journalist Sylvie Le Bras-Chauveau recreated in detail the character, emotions, life, and, of course, the wardrobe of Marie Antoinette, because it was her clothes that determined her image, which remained in history. A little archduchess, a young wayward dauphine, a newly-minted queen of France, not yet accustomed to her title, a loving mother - with the change of role, her appearance also changed.
In this fascinating biography, you will learn how the Austrian princess changed French fashion, the secret of her popularity, which continues to this day, and what it means to be a queen.
“First, she was welcomed with joy at the Tuileries by Parisians who begged for flowers and ribbons from her hat, while the Parisians marveled at her dignity, simplicity and care for her children. Then she was booed, trampled in the mud, deprived of her human form - until the very last act of the tragedy, in which her death was turned into a performance, immortalized in pink and black... Since the “little history” of Marie Antoinette’s dresses is closely linked to her personality and inseparable from the “big history” of France, I invite you to follow her path from Vienna to the guillotine, following the changes in her wardrobe” (Sylvie Le Bras-Chauveau).
Fashion journalist Sylvie Le Bras-Chauveau recreated in detail the character, emotions, life, and, of course, the wardrobe of Marie Antoinette, because it was her clothes that determined her image, which remained in history. A little archduchess, a young wayward dauphine, a newly-minted queen of France, not yet accustomed to her title, a loving mother - with the change of role, her appearance also changed.
In this fascinating biography, you will learn how the Austrian princess changed French fashion, the secret of her popularity, which continues to this day, and what it means to be a queen.
“First, she was welcomed with joy at the Tuileries by Parisians who begged for flowers and ribbons from her hat, while the Parisians marveled at her dignity, simplicity and care for her children. Then she was booed, trampled in the mud, deprived of her human form - until the very last act of the tragedy, in which her death was turned into a performance, immortalized in pink and black... Since the “little history” of Marie Antoinette’s dresses is closely linked to her personality and inseparable from the “big history” of France, I invite you to follow her path from Vienna to the guillotine, following the changes in her wardrobe” (Sylvie Le Bras-Chauveau).
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