Oldfield designed dozens of evening gowns - several of them iconic - for Diana before her death in a Paris car crash in 1997. In honour of Camilla's late mother-in-law, the crown will be reset with several diamonds from her personal jewellery collection.Īccording to British media, Oldfield, 72, has designed Camilla's gown but Buckingham Palace was keeping tight-lipped when contacted by AFP. When the royal procession arrives at Westminster Abbey on Saturday, the queen will be cloaked in a crimson velvet "Robe of State", originally made for Elizabeth 70 years ago.Ĭamilla will be crowned with Elizabeth's grandmother Queen Mary's Crown, which she wore at the coronation of her husband King George V in 1911.
Charles's mother Queen Elizabeth II wore an intricately embroidered white satin gown on the day.īut Camilla is likely to opt for something less luxurious with the new king keen to slim down the ceremony as the country grapples with a cost of living crisis. Weber's book is not only a stylish and original addition to Marie Antoinette scholarship, but also a moving, revelatory reinterpretation of one of history's most controversial figures.ĭieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in D ausgeliefert werden."It's going to go down in history," she added.īritain last held a coronation in 1953. The paradox of her tragic story, according to Weber, is that fashion-the vehicle she used to secure her triumphs-was also the means of her undoing.
Weber's queen is sublime, human, and surprising: a sometimes courageous monarch unwilling to allow others to determine her destiny. Gradually, however, she began to lose her hold on the French when she started to adopt "unqueenly" outfits (the provocative chemise) that, surprisingly, would be adopted by the revolutionaries who executed her. As queen, Marie Antoinette used stunning, often extreme costumes to project an image of power and wage war against her enemies.
Weber surveys Marie Antoinette's "Revolution in Dress," covering each phase of the queen's tumultuous life, beginning with the young girl, struggling to survive Versailles's rigid traditions of royal glamour (twelve-foot-wide hoopskirts, whalebone corsets that crushed her organs). In Queen of Fashion, Caroline 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. Produktbeschreibung In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinette's bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France Marie Antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style, but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid sustained attention to her clothes.
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