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Marie Antoinette Style at the V&A is a rare opportunity to see what survives of the queen’s closet

By Serena Dyer, Associate Professor, Fashion History, De Montfort University
Marie Antoinette (1755 to 1793) is a cultural icon of monumental proportions. She was the last queen of France before the brutal and bloody French Revolution, and her life was ended by the revolutionaries’ guillotine blade.

Her legacy courses through the visual language of music videos, fashion catwalks and drag shows. Even the shapes and styles behind the current corset trend, popularised by the show…The Conversation


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