Queen of Fashion

“A thrilling frock-by-frock account . . . energetic and alive with [Weber’s] own feminine pleasure at a beautiful dress or an outrageous pouf.” —Entertainment Weekly (grade: A)

Marie Antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style, but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid sustained attention to her clothes. In Queen of Fashion, Caroline Weber shows how Marie Antoinette developed h...