Nothing could be more French than to allow current affairs to influence fashion (just look at the hairstyles concocted by Rose Bertin for Marie Antoinette and her coterie – battleships, babies being born and balloons taking off are just a few examples) and the outrageously dressed Merveilleuses are the finest example of this.
Les Merveilleuses (‘The Marvellous Ones’) made their first appearance in 1794 and influenced by the victims of the guillotine, they cultivated a highly modish and edgily morbid style that bordered on the gothic. The leaders of the Merveilleuses were the extremely stylish Theresa Tallien and Rose de Beauharnais, both of whom had been imprisoned during the Terror and had barely escaped with their lives.
One of the favoured accessories of the fashionable Merveilleuse was a thin red ribbon or choker of rubies, designed to mimic droplets of blood around a severed neck.
-
artistic-everything reblogged this from jaded-mandarin
-
midnitered liked this
-
gaiasghost reblogged this from jaded-mandarin
-
pattitrice reblogged this from jaded-mandarin and added:
Yes yes yes!!! I am dying!!
-
sans-merci reblogged this from morbidezza
-
sweatit-out reblogged this from jaded-mandarin
-
belalwaysrowley liked this
-
onesorryloser reblogged this from jaded-mandarin
-
morbidezza reblogged this from satiricdancer
-
queenmabsconspirator liked this
-
gingerbread-child liked this
-
sadomars liked this
-
thegirlfromthering reblogged this from jaded-mandarin
-
jaded-mandarin liked this
-
jaded-mandarin reblogged this from titam
-
satiricdancer reblogged this from jaded-mandarin
-
jeparleamonseul reblogged this from titam and added:
YOUGUISE. I want to be a Merveilleuse when I grow up. Or now. And ooh, Empress Josephine was one, too. WANT TO BECOME.
-
djladybiggulp reblogged this from vivelareine
-
titam reblogged this from vivelareine
-
cirquedangelique reblogged this from vivelareine
-
flowingthrough reblogged this from vivelareine
-
amandasthewalrus liked this
-
trucydae reblogged this from vivelareine
-
bittersweetstyle reblogged this from vivelareine
-
adriennejade reblogged this from vivelareine
-
ashukar reblogged this from vivelareine
-
calantheandthenightingale liked this
-
reneechristopher liked this
-
beauharnais reblogged this from vivelareine
-
thisstuffesbueno reblogged this from vivelareine
-
vivelareine reblogged this from mmeguillotine
-
unfamiliarfamiliarity liked this
-
vivelareine liked this
-
lookinsidethepictures liked this
-
lifeofthedamned liked this
-
hollowvault reblogged this from mmeguillotine
-
ardentpittite liked this
-
helllosweetie liked this
-
mmeguillotine posted this
