From hated queen to 21st-century icon: Paris exhibition celebrates life of Marie-Antoinette
Paris show includes contemporary treatment of woman France loved to hate in mangas, fashion and film
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Dior restores two exceptional places at the Château de Versailles
The Queen’s House and Réchauffoir/ The Warming Room (where dishes were warmed before being served at the royal table) –
Manolo Blahnik: The Art of Shoes retrospective
Manolo Blahnik: The Art of Shoes is an intimate retrospective spanning 45 years of work by one of the most
The Largest Origami Flower blooms in the oldest Kitchen garden in the world
The world’s Largest Origami Rose has a diameter of 5.08 m (16 ft 8 in) and was made with a
Le bouquet de la Reine perfume to support Chateau de Versailles Palace restoration
“She was a “prototype for fashion and taste”, wrote her biographer, Stefan Zweig, in 1932. Among the paradoxes of a
From baroque to bling: how France became king of high style
In early modern Europe, as political power shifted, one country became a leader in luxury. Now the V&A’s new galleries reveal how, through conflict and colonialism, France gained its artistic supremacy