The V&A is hosting Marie Antoinette Style, the first ever UK exhibition on the fashionable and ill-fated French queen. As well as showing how she was a fashion icon in her own time, the display will examine Marie Antoinette’s influence on design, fashion, film and decorative arts more than 200 years after she was put to the guillotine. Over 250 objects will be on show, including pieces loaned from the Chateau De Versailles as well as contemporary fashion from the likes of Moschino, Dior, Chanel and Vivienne Westwood, and costumes from Sofia Coppola’s Oscar-winning Marie Antoinette.
