In Queen of Fashion, Caroline Weber shows how Marie Antoinette developed her reputation for fashionable excess, and explains through lively, illuminating new research the political controversies that her clothing provoked. Marie Antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style, but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid sustained attention to her clothes. It does not store any personal data.In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinettes bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France

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She is currently at work on a sequel to that project: a social history of the demise of the French aristocracy between 18. Her latest book, Proust’ Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris (2018), won the French Heritage Society Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. For nine years, she wrote regularly for The New York Times Book Review.

The latter work, a study of Marie Antoinette’ politically fraught clothing choices, led to writing assignments for The New York Times, The Financial Times, Town & Country, The Washington Post, W magazine, and Vogue. Weber’ first two books, Terror and Its Discontents (2003) and Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution (2006), analyzed the complex politics of revolutionary France. She has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton. Since 2005 she has been a professor of French and Comparative Literature at Barnard College, Columbia University. Caroline Weber is a scholar of French literature, history, and culture.

Queen of Fashion by Caroline Weber