Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie

Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

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Fashion historian Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell discusses one of the most exciting, controversial, and extravagant periods in the history of fashion: the reign of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette in 18th-century France. She explores the exceptionally imaginative and uninhibited styles of the period leading up to the French Revolution, as well as fashion’s surprising influence on the course of the Revolution itself. This is part of the Wark Lecture Series at The Huntington.

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