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Milan Fashion Week Italy - 20 Feb 2020.
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MARIE ANTOINETTE STYLE AT THE
V&A
Opening this month at V&A South
Kensington, Marie Antoinette Style will
be the UK’s first exhibition on the French
queen Marie Antoinette. The exhibition
will explore the origins and countless
revivals of the style shaped by the most
fashionable queen in history. A fashion
icon in her own time, and an early
modern ‘celebrity’, the dress and
interiors modelled and adopted by the
ill-fated Queen of France in the final
decades of the eighteenth century have
had a lasting influence on over 250
years of design, fashion, film and
decorative arts.
250 objects will go on display
including historical and contemporary
fashion, alongside audio visual
installations and immersive curation to
explore how and why Marie Antoinette,
the person, has provided a constant
source of inspiration. The exhibition will
also consider afresh the legacy of a
complex figure whose style, youth and
notoriety have all contributed to her
timeless appeal.
The exhibition will trace the cultural
impact of the Marie Antoinette style, and
her ongoing inspiration for leading
designers and creatives, from Sofia
Coppola and Manolo Blahnik to
Moschino and Vivienne Westwood.
On display will be exceptionally rare
personal items owned and worn by
Marie Antoinette including richly
embellished fragments of court dress,
the Queen’s own silk slippers, and
jewels from her private collection. Other
highlight objects which have never left
Versailles or France before, include
personal effects such as the queen’s
dinner service from the Petit Trianon, her
accessories and intimate items from her
toilette case. The exhibition will also
feature contemporary clothing including
couture pieces by designers such as
Moschino, Dior, Chanel, Erdem,
Vivienne Westwood and Valentino.
Marie Antoinette shaped not just the
fashion, design, interiors, gardens, fine
and decorative arts of her own time but
has continued to exert an influence over
more than two and a half centuries of
graphic and decorative arts, fashion,
photography, film and performance.
Through theatrical staging and sensory
experiences, the excessive, lavish and
feminine style will come to life and set
the stage for over 250 years of style
reimagined again and again.
Portrait de Marie-Antoinette a la rose,
Elisabeth-Louise Vigee Le Brun ©
Chateau de Versailles, Dist. Grand Palais
RMN Christophe Fouin
HANNAH SHERGOLD AT MALL
GALLERIES
This September, acclaimed wildlife
artist and former British Army helicopter
pilot Hannah Shergold will stage her
highly anticipated solo exhibition at Mall
Galleries. Running from 30 September to
4 October, the show will feature her
latest collection of dynamic oil paintings
alongside a striking portrait of Rolling
Stones legend Ronnie Wood.
Shergold, who has raised over
£370,000 for charity since turning
professional in 2018, is an ambassador
for Tusk Trust, the wildlife conservation
charity under the Royal Patronage of
HRH the Prince of Wales.
At the heart of her new exhibition is the
portrait of Ronnie Wood, which will be
auctioned during the Preview evening on
30 September, with all proceeds benefiting
Tusk’s conservation work in Africa.
A self-representing artist with a
distinctive style that combines oils,
palette knives, and bold geometric
forms, Shergold has sold over £1.5
million of her work in just seven years.
Her paintings now grace private
collections worldwide, making her one
of the UK’s most exciting contemporary
wildlife artists.
For further information, visit the
website at www.hannahshergold.com
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