This is my drawing to participate in a fashion illustration contest. It's about Marie Antoinette - A fashion symbol of France.
"Marie Antoinette is often described as the first consumer of ‘haute couture’ fashion – one-of-a-kind pieces designed and made to measure for her by her ‘Minister of Fashion’ Rose Bertin.
Thanks to her skills and her spendthrift Royal client, Bertin became the first famous ‘fashion designer’, and her creations would inspire a nation.
Marie Antoinette's fashion masterpieces included costumes of extreme extravagance for court appearances. She was the first young and fashionable Queen in three generations to hold the public absolutely captivated by what voluminous, heavily decorated creation she would wear next.
She was also looked to for her tall and intensely adorned hairstyles, which were called ‘poufs’ and were halfway between a hat and a hair arrangement.
Poufs would often reference events of pop culture or political significance of the day. They would include relevant emblems interlaced within the hair design, often with drawings and written text or motifs.
For more casual wear with friends away from the court, Marie Antoinette favored rustic and simple muslin gowns in whites and pastel colors, which also set new trends.
For the first time in history, Marie Antoinette, together with Rose Bertin, elevated fashion and clothes from a trade to an artform.
Fashion has moved on since the days of Marie Antoinette, and whilst we no longer attempt to dress like her day-to-day, the concept of 'celebrity style', influencing and imitated by society at large, is as strong now as ever."
So I started to think about "How does she look like with nowadays luxury brand like Dior, Chanel, Hermes,..."
