Reviled toward the end of her life, Marie Antoinette has been revered in death. The enduring public obsession with France’s last Queen has only been fueled by the sensational nature of her death ...

“Let them eat cake,” said the hard-hearted Marie Antoinette when told that her subjects had no bread. Except she almost certainly did not. The much-despised queen, widely disliked in her own time, was ...

Marie Antoinette went right on shopping her way to the guillotine, and so remains the magnifying glass through which we look at both our fashion dreams and fashion nightmares. Theories of clothing ...

Long before Jackie O or Princess Diana, Marie Antoinette was the original socialite and style icon. France’s last queen was renowned for her fashion prowess and her huge influence over the country’s ...

Above: Marie Antoinette scandalously abandoned traditional regalia for newfangled “fashion”—as seen in this fateful 1783 portrait by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, one of her style influencers. Between the ...