The V&A Museum will host the exhibition “Marie Antoinette Style.”
The exhibition will feature 250 objects, including loans which have never been outside of Versailles or France. It will include rare personal items from Marie Antoinette, including her silk slippers and jewels from her private collection. You will also be able to see costumes made for the screen, such as those from Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette.
A scent experience will re-create the scents of the French court and the perfume Marie Antoinette wore.
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- Design for Tourzel Habsburg, 2005.
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- Bracelet clasps, France, Gold with brilliant cut diamonds, central plaques of blue paste (glass). © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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- Antonietta, 2005 by Manolo Blahnik.
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- Portrait de Marie-Antoinette à la rose, Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun © Château de Versailles, Dist. Grand Palais RMN / Christophe Fouin.
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- One slipper belonging to Marie Antoinette beaded pink silk. Photo: CC0 Paris Musées / Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris.
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- Moschino show, Runway, Fall Winter 2020, Milan Fashion Week, Italy – 20 Feb 2020. Photo: PIXELFORMULA/SIPA/Shutterstock.
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- Marie-Antoinette’s Pearl jewels. Heidi Horten Collection. © Sotheby’s / Bridgeman Images.
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- Crystal flask with label ‘Eau de Cologne from the ‘Nécessaire de voyage’, belonging to Marie Antoinette. © Grand Palais RMN (musée du Louvre) / Michel Urtado.
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- Dress, ‘robe de style’, white organza with artificial flowers, France © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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- Fragments of a court gown belonging to Marie Antoinette © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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- Kate Moss, Fashion: Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen, Van Cleef & Arpels, and Julian d’Ys, The Ritz, Paris 2012. [photographs of Kate Moss at the Paris Ritz for Vogue US April 2012 issue] © Tim Walker.
![Kate Moss, Fashion: Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen, Van Cleef & Arpels, and Julian d'Ys, The Ritz, Paris 2012. [photographs of Kate Moss at the Paris Ritz for Vogue US April 2012 issue] © Tim Walker.](https://www.royal-news.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/KATEMO1-scaled.jpg)
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- ‘Lettre’, 1921 from Fêtes Galantes © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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- Marie-Antoinette as a harpy tearing up Human Rights and the Constitution. Photo: CC0 Paris Musées / Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris.
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- Marie-Antoinette’s chair set © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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- Photo: Courtesy Andrea Grossi
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- © Designmuseum Denmark / Photo: Pernille Klemp.
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- Wedding gown of Duchess Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotta (later Queen of Sweden). – Photo: Göran Schmidt Livrustkammaren/SHM (CC BY 4.0)
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- © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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- © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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- © Grand Palais Rmn (Sèvres – Manufacture et musée nationaux) / Martine Beck-Coppola.
Sarah Grant, Curator of Marie Antoinette Style, said: “The most fashionable, scrutinised and controversial queen in history, Marie Antoinette’s name summons both visions of excess and objects and interiors of great beauty. The Austrian archduchess turned Queen of France had an enormous impact on European taste and fashion in her own time, creating a distinctive style that now has universal appeal and application. This exhibition explores that style and the figure at its centre, using a range of exquisite objects belonging to Marie Antoinette, alongside the most beautiful fine and decorative objects that her legacy has inspired. This is the design legacy of an early modern celebrity and the story of a woman whose power to fascinate has never ebbed. Marie Antoinette’s story has been re-told and re-purposed by each successive generation to suit its own ends. The rare combination of glamour, spectacle and tragedy she presents remains as intoxicating today as it was in the eighteenth century.”
The exhibition “Marie Antoinette Style” runs at the V&A South Kensington from 20 September 2025 to 22 March 2026. Tickets can be bought here.
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