Showing posts with label Fashion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fashion. Show all posts
Thursday, 29 November 2012

Blues and whites

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They're my favourite two colours together. Elena Maria Vidal's blog Tea at Trianon shows some of Marie-Antoinette's favourite...
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Saturday, 11 June 2011

Modern Royal couture

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Via Tea at Trianon comes an article about this magnificent gown by Norman Hartnell, which was worn by the current Queen on a State visit to...
Monday, 9 May 2011

The Surviving Jewels of Marie-Antoinette

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Via Tea at Trianon comes an article about the few surviving fragments of Marie-Antoinette's legendary jewel collection. For this blo...
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Tuesday, 1 March 2011

Marie-Antoinette's ballgown re-created

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Via Tea at Trianon comes news of this Italian recreation of one of the gown's made for Queen Marie-Antoinette by her so-called "m...
Sunday, 24 October 2010

"Popular" character profile: Catherine

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Over at my book blog, I have started p rofiling in-depth the main characters of Popular , my first novel which will be released in the UK o...
Saturday, 16 October 2010

October 16th, 1793: The Execution of Marie-Antoinette

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"I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood ...
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Monday, 11 October 2010

Fit for a Queen

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The blog Marie Antoinette's Gossip Guide to the 18th Century is hosting a rather fun video, celebrating the legendary wardrobe of the la...
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Wednesday, 29 September 2010

Mortifying mistake on "Australia's Next Top Model"

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From my other blog - an embarrassing mistake on the live finale of Australia's Next Top Model. 
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Sunday, 26 September 2010

"In a true democracy, everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut": Has the Preppy Era gone too far?

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Thirty years after the publication of Lisa Birnbach's The Official Preppy Handbook, Eric Felten wonders if the culture of preppines...
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Monday, 13 September 2010

"Elvis, Chatsworth, JFK and Me:" An Interview with Deborah Mitford

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In light of the release of her memoirs , Wait for Me! , The Daily Telegraph writes a wonderful and very entertaining profile of Deborah Mi...
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Sunday, 12 September 2010

James II's wedding suit

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Via Tea at Trianon comes an account of the sumptuous wedding suit worn by the future King James II when he married his second bride, the l...