Marie Antoinette Style at the V&A: a ‘magnificent’ exhibition

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Buying up to four pairs of shoes per week while her subjects were starving, France’s final queen remains both a “vacuous profligate” and a “style icon for a consumerist cult” to this day, said Laura Cumming in The Observer.
The V&A’s exhibition – the first in the UK solely devoted to her…

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