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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Auteur principal: Weber, Caroline, 1969-
Format: Livre
Langue:anglais
Publié: New York : Picador/H. Holt and Co. : [Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers], 2007, c2006.
Édition:1st Picador ed.
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Table des matières:
  • Pandora's box
  • Stripped
  • Corseted
  • Ride like a man
  • The pouf ascendant
  • The simple life
  • Galled
  • Revolutionary redress
  • True colors
  • Black
  • White
  • Afterword: fashion victim.