Marie Antoinette may or may not have said, “Let them eat cake,” but she definitely piled on the rouge. Now, more than two centuries later, a new generation is following the final queen of France’s ...

Marie Antoinette, the final Queen of France, may have met her untimely death over two centuries ago, but “Marie Antoinette blush” is alive and well in 2025. For a quick history lesson: Austrian-born ...

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Kate Moss, Fashion: Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen, Van Cleef & Arpels, and Julian d'Ys, The Ritz, Paris, 2012, for Vogue US, April 2012 issue. © Tim Walker The ...

In London, the V&A’s latest blockbuster fashion exhibition, the hotly anticipated “Marie Antoinette Style,” feels almost like a séance. It has everything you would expect from a no-holds-barred, ...

On September 17 2025, coinciding with London Fashion Week, a new exhibition was unveiled at the V&A South Kensington, London. Titled 'Marie Antoinette Style’, this is the UK's first exhibition on the ...

Marie Antoinette died over 230 years ago. But in the modern day, the teen queen’s presence remains widely felt. A-listers from Kylie Jenner to Miley Cyrus have embodied her likeness for fashion ...

“I did have it most of my life—this obsession with Marie Antoinette,” Manolo Blahnik confides. It began in childhood, he says, when, growing up in the Canary Islands, his mother read aloud a biography ...

Long before Jackie O or Princess Diana, Marie Antoinette was the original socialite and style icon. France’s last queen was renowned for her fashion prowess and her huge influence over the country’s ...

Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette (2006), starring Kirsten Dunst, unfolds like a feature-length fashion film, a Ladurée-colored dreamscape of panniered gowns, lace fans, feathered hairpieces, and ...

Above: Marie Antoinette scandalously abandoned traditional regalia for newfangled “fashion”—as seen in this fateful 1783 portrait by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, one of her style influencers. Between the ...