A Well-Fashioned Image: Clothing and Costume in European Art, 1500-1850
The dress is very long, so I tucked it up from the hem in two spots so it wouldn't get damaged at the Ren Faire grounds
Or are these costumes reflective of what many adults fear and work so hard to avoid
This is MALM as Ive never seen it: glossy, energetic, eye-catching
It has everything you would expect from a no-holds-barred, couture-filled reassessment of the extravagant French queenthe pomp and circumstance, stunning gowns, shimmering jewels, impossibly elegant furnishings, luminous portraiture, items which have never before left Versaillesbut, even more remarkably, it manages to conjure her spirit, in all its complexity