Queenie

Marie Antoinette was a queen of fashion, and Caroline Weber's book Queen of Fashion proves it. In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinette's bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France. Weber reveals how, as a girl, Marie Antoinette struggled to survive Versailles's rigid traditions of royal glamour—twelve-foot wide hoop skirts and whalebone corsets that crushed her organs. As a queen, she used stunning, often extreme costumes to project an image of power and wage war against her enemies.