Join Dr. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, author of Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette for an exploration of one of the most exciting, controversial, and extravagant periods in the history of fashion: the reign of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette in 18th-century France. This turbulent era’s sophisticated and largely female-dominated fashion industry both produced courtly finery and promoted a thriving secondhand clothing market outside the royal circle. Chrisman-Campbell will illuminate the exceptionally imaginative and uninhibited styles of the period immediately before the French Revolution, as well as fashion’s surprising influence on the course of the Revolution itself.

Dr. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell is an award-winning fashion historian, curator, and journalist. She is the author of Worn on This Day: The Clothes That Made History, The Way We Wed: A Global History of Wedding Fashion, Red, White, and Blue on the Runway: The 1968 White House Fashion Show and the Politics of American Style and Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the 20th Century. She has written about fashion, art, and culture for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Politico and Slate.

Books will be available for purchase.