If you were a debutante in about 1902, you’d dress like this. (Most of) these young women are wearing the “S” monobosum corset at the height of its style – demonstrating how very different one style can be on various body types. This is the challenge we meet every project …
The 5 ensembles we are working on are progressing with excellence. Anna’s corset is hot “off the press” (and she will be ‘smokin” in her 1805 corded stays which ‘lift and separate’), and Doty and Fiona had their corset fittings with our corsetierre pro Mary LaVenture (how DOES she get …
It was her husband’s Bourbon French king line that had to be overthrown for Napoleon to take power. Featured and Below: Marie Antoinette’s friend Madame Lamballe with the Queen
We respect, revere, and actually build American history from the “Bum Up”. Our work is dedicated to understanding what has gone before, and the “spaces between” that which is documented – what might it have really been like. Join us in studying the places, people, and connections as we build …
.. married to Napoleon’s I, first wife Josephine’s, and Napoleon’s adopted son, Eugene. Eugene and Amalia tied together many countries through theirs and the next generation’s marriages.
Napoleon I’s brother Joseph’s daughter, and the wife of Napoleon’s other brother, Lucien (whom he didn’t like)? There is another coral tiara the French Royals seem to love! (Later it was corals and pearls)
.. Caroline Bonaparte, Madame Murat.. who lived a bit on the “wild side”. Regency fashion.
Featured: later Empress Josephine, and below: near 1800 with “the little white dress” and accents related to French military uniforming.
.. of Napoleon that we missed before. While Marie Louise (wife #2) was not noteworthy as leading fashion, Josephine was. Marie had people who designed and dressed for her in attempt to have her accepted into French nobility. She was popular, but not because of her clothing; because she was …
.. to fashion and other countries. We have also gone thoroughly through Napoleon’s 2 wives, Josephine and Marie Louise, and their children. Do you have your family tree in order? We will now move “laterally” to Napoleon’s liasons and progeny through mistresses, as they continue connections to today. (portrait: a …
