Set up at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the exhibition tells the style of the most popular queen in the story between Cimeli and Contemporary References
Appointment in London with Marie Antoinette Style, the exhibition sponsored by Manolo Blahnik and set up in the spaces of the Victoria & Albert museum in its headquarters in Kensington. The exhibition, the first ever made in England on the most famous queen of the eighteenth century, will be officially inaugurated tomorrow, Saturday 20 September, and will remain on the bill until March 22, 2026. On stage 250 objects, including the wedding dress of Maria Antonietta and Cimeli never seen outside Versailles, which tell the cultural impact of the sovere Fonte of inspiration for creatives such as Sofia Coppola, director of the 2006 eponymous film, Manolo Blahnik himself, who for the film made a special capsule collection for the occasion and then Moschino, Dior, Chanel, Erdem, Vivienne Westwood and Valentino with their clothes. “The name of Marie Antoinette, the most fashionable, examined and controversial queen of history, evokes both excess visions and objects and interiors of great beauty”, explained Sarah Grant, curator of the exhibition, “the Austrian archduchess, who became queen of France, had a huge impact on the taste and European fashion of her time, creating a distinctive style that now has a universal charm and application. Style and the figure at its center, using a range of exquisite objects belonging to Maria Antonietta, together with the most beautiful precious and decorative pieces that its legacy has inspired. Combination of glamor, show and tragedy it presents remains intoxicating today as it was in the eighteenth century “. A cultural short circuit that puts vintage jewelry and film frames, monarchy and avant -garde, eighteenth century and 2000s into dialogue.
