by Hannibal Reitano
The Victoria & Albert's extraordinary fashion exhibition, the hotly anticipated "Marie Antoinette Style", opened with a champagne and canapes VIP Preview Party. The exhibition feels almost like a seance. It's got everything you'd expect from a no-holds-barred, couture-filled reassessment of the extravagant French queen - the pomp and circumstance, stunning gowns, shimmering jewels, impossibly elegant furnishings, luminous portraiture, items which have never before left Versailles - but even more remarkably, it manages to conjure her spirit, in all its complexity. Marie Antoinette's legacy is most pronounced in fashion and style, and this was also the case in her own time.
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| The Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Chloe Simone Dj's |
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| Flora Vestenberg |
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| Lady Victoria Hervey |
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| Jacky St Clair and Carl Michelson |
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| The Presentation Speech |
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| Luna De Casanova, Pia Hallstrom and Kimberleigh Gelber |
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| Hannibal Reitano and Celia Imrie |
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| Kristina Blahnik |
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| Tristram Hunt |
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| Basia Briggs and Amita Azar |
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| Isabella Charlotta Poppius |
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| Armita Azar |
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| Sarah Grant and Hannibal Reitano |
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| Lauren Jane Barnett and Tony Mardon |
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| Parker O'Connor and Mariya Dykalo |
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| Hannibal Reitano and Ditta von Teese |
Photos by Hannibal Reitano
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