BY POPULAR DEMAND | POWER DRESSING: Marie Antoinette and the fashion that brought down the Ancien Regime with Sylvia Sagona

This lecture investigates the layers of social, cultural and political significance that lay beneath the seemingly frivolous changes in fashion instigated by Marie Antoinette from the time she arrived in Paris as a teenager, to her death on the scaffold. Style does matter.

Sylvia Sagona is a fellow of the School of languages at the University of Melbourne and specialises in 19th Century French art and society.