“Even as she faced execution, Marie Antoinette's will to control her image, to manage it through her clothing, had not left her.” ExecutionImageClothingMarie Antoinette Book:Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution Source: Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
“Unlike a Eugenie or a Jackie, but quite like her ancestor the Sun King, Marie Antoinette helped invent fashion as a high-stakes political game - one that she played in dead earnest, and with deadly results. A winner-take-all affair, her program of singular sartorial defiance implicated not just her autonomy and her prestige, but her crown and, eventually, her life.” PoliticsFashionRoyaltyImageMarie Antoinette Book:Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution Source: Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution