Caroline Weber not only combines fresh insights with new material, she also has a dazzling style of writing that most authors would kill for. Fascinating in its rich detail yet also deeply moving, no other book about the tragic Marie Antoinette so captures her fatal flair for fashion. Here is fashion at its most cut-throat and history at its most sumptuous an original, arresting tale, of high stakes all around.'-Stacy Schiff, author of 'A Great Improvisation''' ''Queen of Fashion 'is a marvelous read. While this book is rigorously researched, Weber's narrative style is energetic and alive with her own feminine pleasure at a beautiful dress or an outrageous pouf.'- Entertainment Weekly (grade: A) 'Wickedly enjoyable.'- The New York Times Style Magazine, A perceptive work of scholarship that helps to explain the transcendent importance of fashion to French culture., 'Caroline Weber weaves her portrait of Marie Antoinette-and pre-revolutionary France-from the very fabric of the Queen''s wardrobe.

As sociology, it's nothing short of stunning.'- The Washington Post Book World 'Absorbing, fascinating, a wonderful display of grace and expertise.'- The New York Review of Books 'A thrilling frock-by-frock account. While this book is rigorously researched, Weber's narrative style is energetic and alive with her own feminine pleasure at a beautiful dress or an outrageous pouf.'- Entertainment Weekly (grade: A) 'Wickedly enjoyable.'- The New York Times Style Magazine, 'A perceptive work of scholarship that helps to explain the transcendent importance of fashion to French culture.'- The New Yorker ' Queen of Fashion is as richly imagined as the gowns it describes.

While this book is rigorously researched, Weber's narrative style is energetic and alive with her own feminine pleasure at a beautiful dress or an outrageous pouf.' - Entertainment Weekly (grade: A) 'Wickedly enjoyable.' - The New York Times Style Magazine, 'A perceptive work of scholarship that helps to explain the transcendent importance of fashion to French culture.'- The New Yorker ' Queen of Fashion is as richly imagined as the gowns it describes. As sociology, it's nothing short of stunning.' - The Washington Post Book World 'Absorbing, fascinating, a wonderful display of grace and expertise.' - The New York Review of Books 'A thrilling frock-by-frock account. 'A perceptive work of scholarship that helps to explain the transcendent importance of fashion to French culture.' - The New Yorker ' Queen of Fashion is as richly imagined as the gowns it describes.

Queen of Fashion by Caroline Weber