Marie Antoinette Style

Marie Antoinette, a multifaceted fashion icon, owes her timeless appeal to her style, youth and notoriety. With the coffee table book "Marie Antoinette Style," discover the lasting influence of history's most fashionable (and unfortunate) queen - spanning more than 250 years of design, fashion, film and art.

'Marie Antoinette' - the name alone evokes a vivid, pastel-colored world of excess, full of satin shoes, rustling silks, gravity-defying hairstyles, decadent macarons, delicious intrigue and then, of course, the bloody Revolution. This groundbreaking coffee-table book first reconstructs the life and style of the fascinating but tragic Marie Antoinette - married at 14, queen at 18 and beheaded at 37 - from the intimate rooms she lived in to the scent she wore, the trends she set and the complexities of French court life. The authors draw on contemporary accounts, interiors, letters, portraits and the tantalizingly few personal effects that have survived: her shoes and fans, and bits of fabric from her dresses.

But Marie Antoinette remained influential well beyond her death in 1793. The book "Marie Antoinette Style" reveals how the unfortunate queen of France has been a constant source of inspiration for the world of design, fashion, film and decorative arts - from nineteenth-century costume balls to Art Deco illustrations, John Galliano's couture for Dior and Sofia Coppola's sumptuous film. It takes a fresh look at the legacy of a complex and misunderstood figure whose style, youth and notoriety contributed to her timeless appeal.

Specifications
Title: Marie Antoinette Style
Author: Sarah Grant
Publisher: Q&A Publishing
Size: 288 x 242 x 30 mm
Size: 304 pages
Weight: 1833 grams
Language: English
Material: Hardback
ISBN: 9781838510541

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