Lydia Courteille pays homage to Marie-Antoinette

May 2019

Lydia Courteille pays homage to Marie-Antoinette

May 2019

Marie-Antoinette seen from a very different angle, the woman whose charm and seduction was gradually degraded to unpopularity and disgrace.

The collection comes alive with a pallet inspired by the life of the Archiduchess : from a soft pastel aquamarine blue to royal gold, then gradually to a dark and almost Gothic side where a spiders come to mingle with the royal treasures the Queen could have saved until her last moments in her prison

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