Queen of fashion

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In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinette’s bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France
Marie Antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style, but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid sustained attention to her clothes. In Queen of Fashion, Caroline Weber shows how Marie Antoinette developed her reputation for fashionable excess, and explains through lively, illuminating new research the political controversies that her clothing provoked. Weber surveys Marie Antoinette’s “Revolution in Dress,” covering each phase of the queen’s tumultuous life, beginning with the young girl, struggling to survive Versailles’s rigid traditions of royal glamour (twelve-foot-wide hoopskirts, whalebone corsets that crushed her organs). As queen, Marie Antoinette used stunning, often extreme costumes to project an image of power and wage war against her enemies. Gradually, however, she began to lose her hold on the French when she started to adopt “unqueenly” outfits (the provocative chemise) that, surprisingly, would be adopted by the revolutionaries who executed her.
Weber’s queen is sublime, human, and surprising: a sometimes courageous monarch unwilling to allow others to determine her destiny. The paradox of her tragic story, according to Weber, is that fashion—the vehicle she used to secure her triumphs—was also the means of her undoing. Weber’s book is not only a stylish and original addition to Marie Antoinette scholarship, but also a moving, revelatory reinterpretation of one of history’s most controversial figures.

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In this dazzling new vision of the ever fascinating queen a dynamic young historian reveals how marie antoinette s bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of francemarie antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid s 1 - 2 weken .. MEER INFO

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A washington post book world best book of the yearwhen her carriage first crossed over from her native austria into france fourteen year old marie antoinette was taken out stripped naked before an entourage and dressed in french attire to please the court of her new king for a short while the y Uiterlijk 24 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

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In this dazzling new vision of the ever fascinating queen a dynamic young historian reveals how marie antoinette s bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of france marie antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid su Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 20 januari 2007

Aantal pagina's: 352

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Caroline Weber

Hoofduitgeverij: Aurum Press Ltd

Originele titel: Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

Editie: New title

Product breedte: 157 mm

Product hoogte: 24 mm

Product lengte: 233 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 156 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 39 mm

Verpakking lengte: 234 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 788 g

EAN: 9781845132057

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