Announcing a new exhibition: Marie Antoinette Style
August 28, 2025By press.office@vam.ac.uk
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Marie Antoinette Style will be the UK’s first exhibition on the French queen Marie Antoinette, featuring 250 objects, including exceptional loans never seen before outside Versailles and France
On display will be rare personal items owned and worn by Marie Antoinette including the Queen’s own silk slippers, jewels from her private collection and the final note she wrote in her life.
Contemporary clothing including couture pieces by designers such as Moschino, Dior, Chanel and Vivienne Westwood and costumes made for screen, such as for Sofia Coppola’s Oscar winning Marie Antoinette film will also feature from September 2025 at V&A South Kensington.
The exhibition will explore the origins and countless revivals of the style shaped by the most fashionable queen in history. A fashion icon in her own time, and an early modern ‘celebrity’, the dress and interiors modelled and adopted by the ill-fated Queen of France in the final decades of the eighteenth century have had a lasting influence on over 250 years of design, fashion, film and decorative arts.
There will be opportunities to see the exhibition privately as part of a special event after the museums closes, allowing guests an exclusive and special insight into the French Queen's legacy and magic.
