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Why Marie Antoinette, the French queen of court-ure, is having a style moment – again
['Jess Cartner-Morley']
Guardian South Asia
Marie Antoinette: the Fragonard cupcake who bankrupted France with her lust for fashion and diamonds, who bottle-fed pet lambs while her people starved.
Marie Antoinette Style, the first British exhibition devoted to her life and legend, opens at the V&A museum in London on 20 September.
Not since she roamed the mirrored halls of Versailles in her macaroon-hued pomp has Marie Antoinette been this hot.
View image in fullscreen Kate Moss in a 2012 outfit inspired by Marie Antoinette by Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen.
Coppola, Hollywood’s patron saint of beautiful entrapped girlhood, gave us a prom queen Marie Antoinette, in pink Converse trainers and Manolo Blahniks, her powdered complexion swapped for Kirsten Dunst’s dewy youthfulness.
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