Liberty, Equality, Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution

$35.00 at de Young Museum.

The forgotten story of how three women dazzled the world with their radical style and transformed the fashion of the French Revolution.Joséphine Bonaparte, future consort of Napoléon; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals, cast off the rigid clothing regime of the past. Overcoming forced marriages and imprisonment during the Terror, they became the first self-made fashion celebrities. From one year to the next, the Three Graces led a rebellion…