Marie-Antoinette et sa modiste Rose Bertin

Rose Bertin, couturière et "ministre de la mode" de Marie-Antoinette, aide la Reine à affirmer ses goûts vestimentaires. Ensemble, elles inventent la haute couture (Secrets d'Histoire/Marie-Antoinette intime/Société Européenne de Production).

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[tattisalles1989]

Rose Bertin was the fashion minister ....frenches....hehehe

[nokomarie1963]

@X33vince Cool, thanks.

[X33vince]

''It appeared as indecent, as people said, that a queen showed herself dressed as any chambermaid.''

''The royal image is gravely threatened and this portrait is very quickly removed to be replaced with Marie Antoinette with the rose, to appease the minds.''

Her tiny revolution regarding appearances will be enough to knock around three centuries of clothing tradition. (end)

[X33vince]

''So Marie Antoinette tries to free her body, she doesn't want any constraints, and in the end adopts the clothing that allows her to live, to play, to enjoy herself, to move as she pleases.''

But the queen is not Mrs Anybody. And her dress will be the start of a real scandal. During an exposition in Paris, the people discover this official portrait, on which the liberties Marie Antoinette takes will gain her only more hate from those who already don't like her.

[X33vince]

The french splendor is definitively upset.

''it's a little bit of a revolution, because for a queen of France, to appear in an untidy shirt-gown, very simple, it doesn't belong to common rules, to the etiquette. It's known that Marie Antoinette hated etiquette that she lived as a constraint . So you can see here, still underskirt, but no ''baskets'' on the sides.''

[X33vince]

''There comes a moment when the realm of France begins to lack cruelly of money, and when the king asks the queen to restrain herself about the way she lives, in order to save.''

It is the end of excentricities, of fabric and ribbons orgies. At the head of society, people only praise nature. The queen is part of the movment and dreams about dressing like a farmer's girl, in a simple cotton dress.

[X33vince]

The national archives registrate the fashion of this time, giving precious indications about what Marie Antoinette was wearing day by day. Cotton, silk, lace, little bits of everyone of her dresses have been kept there. In an official way, these books allow to follow the command of each dress. In the real way, they are there in order to control how much the queen spends.

[X33vince]

''All that Marie Antoinette buys are dresses without respect for the etiquette. That's what will fuel the reproaches. In the end, she uses the royal treasure like a simple private woman; she aims for her own contentment, not for her people's, or the greatness of the State.''

[X33vince]

''So we can see a sort of frenzy, that her chambermaid Madame de Sèvres can't really manage with. Hence this reputation of being a woman who wastes the state's money.''

''She was accused of spending the realm's money. It's right she spent a lot. But let's say that in comparison with the real deficit, it was almost nothing.''

[X33vince]

''She's someone who always passes an astonishing lot of commands, who make collections of clothes, for example in 1784 she commands 258 lace scarfs, and in 1787, 437 which means more than one scarf for one day.''