Queen of fashion : what Marie Antoinette wore to the Revolution /

Marie Antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style, but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid sustained attention to her clothes. Here, 18th-century specialist Weber shows how Marie Antoinette developed her reputation for fashionable excess, and explains through lively, illuminat...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Weber, Caroline, 1969-
التنسيق: كتاب
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: New York : Picador/H. Holt and Co. : [Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers], 2007, c2006.
الطبعة:1st Picador ed.
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الملخص:Marie Antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style, but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid sustained attention to her clothes. Here, 18th-century specialist 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.
وصف مادي:412 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
الجوائز:A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year; A Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year.
بيبلوغرافيا:Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-389) and index.
ردمك:9780312427344 (pbk.)
0312427344 (pbk.)