Marie Antoinette Style

The exhibition will explore the origins and countless revivals of the style shaped by the most fashionable queen in history. A fashion icon in her own time, and an early modern ‘celebrity’, the dress and interiors modelled and adopted by the ill-fated Queen of France in the final decades of the eighteenth century have had a lasting influence on over 250 years of design, fashion, film and decorative arts. 

250 objects, including exceptional loans from the Château de Versailles never before seen outside France, will go on display including historical and contemporary fashion, alongside audio visual installations and immersive curation to explore how and why Marie Antoinette, the person, has provided a constant source of inspiration.