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...Their outfits were inspired by Audrey Hepburn, Jackie Onassis and Elizabeth Taylor.”...
...There is plenty of rag doll pair work for Valmont (a tireless Joseph Taylor) and the various women in his life....
...But it is also part of a continuum that dates at least to Marie Antoinette building herself a faux-rural hamlet with dovecote, dairy and boudoir on the grounds of the otherwise impeccably formal Palace of...
...That provenance, we were jokingly saying, “Is there a more grand provenance than Marie Antoinette? What about Cleopatra?”...
...(Thomas is an academic and authority on Marie Antoinette.)...
...You can trace this back to Marie Antoinette. In 1783, the French queen caused a scandal when she was painted by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun in a simple white muslin dress....
...Even Marie Antoinette owned paste jewellery [set and faceted lead glass], because it was the same workmanship but less expensive,” says Ms Satloff....
...The lily was also the favourite flower of Elizabeth Taylor, who persuaded the actor Rex Harrison to buy her a frosted rock crystal clutch of the flowers, with nephrite leaves, after spotting it in a Vienna...
...Caroline Weber, author of Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution, points to the evolution of Le Bal des Débutantes in Paris, the annual social event in Paris....
...Amid a show of Capri trousers, batwing angora sweaters, leather frocks and floral sheath dresses inspired by 1950s stars like Elizabeth Taylor and Ava Gardner, he said: “Today’s stars don’t want spring/summer...
...But if every jewel Marie-Antoinette had ever worn was “cursed”, owners of beautiful gems would have been dropping like flies ever since....
...It’s the model of lavish good taste and the hosts (celebrating a collective 70-years – she 32, he 38) are dressed as Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette....
...At Dior, for example, John Galliano traded in his usual Marie Antoinette, let-them-get-out-of-the-way-of-my-cake-like-skirt extravaganzas for a relatively restrained parade of hourglass silhouettes, where...
...“Oversized pieces can create a very strong visual impact,” agrees Karen Howes of Chelsea-based interior designers Taylor Howes....
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