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Auteur(s) : Weber, Caroline (1969-....)
Titre(s) : Queen of fashion [Texte imprimé] : what Marie Antoinette wore to the Revolution / Caroline Weber
Édition : 1st ed.
Publication : New York : H. Holt, 2006
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (412 p.-[16] p. de pl.) : ill. en noir et en coul. ; 25 cm
Comprend : Pandora's box ; Stripped ; Corseted ; Ride like a man ; The pouf ascendant ; The simple life ; Galled ; Revolutionary redress ; True colors ; Black ; White ; Afterward: fashion victim.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-389) and index
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. Weber surveys Marie Antoinette's "Revolution in Dress,"
covering each phase of her tumultuous life, beginning with the young girl struggling
to survive Versailles's rigid traditions of royal glamour. As queen, Marie Antoinette
used stunning, often extreme costumes to project an image of power. Gradually, however,
she began to lose her hold on the French when she started to adopt provocative, "unqueenly"
outfits that, ironically, would be adopted by the revolutionaries who executed her.
The paradox of her tragic story, according to Weber, is that fashion--the vehicle
she used to secure her triumphs--was also her undoing.--From publisher description
Sujet(s) : Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793 ; reine de France) -- Vêtements
Mode -- France -- 18e siècle
Cour et courtisans -- Costume -- France -- 18e siècle
France -- 1774-1792 (Louis XVI)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0805079491. - ISBN 9780805079494
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb41004093d
Notice n° :
FRBNF41004093
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)