A wonderful exhibit is opened March 31st at Versailles in Paris. Titled “Fastes de Cour & Cérémonies Royales” – “Court Pomp & Royal Ceremony” – the exhibit, sponsored by Chanel, retraces European court costumes from 1650 to 1800. This runs through June 28th.
Karl Lagerfeld is the voice of the exhibition catalogue’s forward and he remarks that the French court – the most brilliant and imitated in the world – went into debt to retain universal admiration because “nothing was too beautiful, or too expensive… One had to dazzle to impose [one’s presence].”
Images courtesy of the Fashion Spot forums.
