What innumerable media outlets have fittingly dubbed “ the Kate effect ” refers to a fashion phenomenon surrounding the ...

Inside the Élysée Palace, the French President’s 365-room official residence, larger than Versailles and the White House.

However, we’re no longer in the 1720s - so how do we modernise Rococo for 2025 without resembling a Marie Antoinette costume?

Perry plays with the ascribed femininity of 18th-century French Rococo and the ascribed ... Across the room, a beribboned Madame De Pompadour (the 1759 oil painting by François Boucher) smiles ...

but to look like someone like Madame de Pompadour. A year after I made this I had a show in Paris that coincided with a big celebration of the French Revolution. And so in continuing the theme of the ...

Madame de Pompadour didn't just share King Louis XV's bed, she also shared his power. As the most commanding mistress in the French court, she bettered the lives of many and became a beloved ...

Savill was not only the director, but also the Wallace’s internationally regarded curator of 18th-century French porcelain ... Everyday Rococo: Madame de Pompadour & Sèvres Porcelain.

When you are attending a fashion event in Paris today, you are, in effect, in that French court ... The formidable Madame de Pompadour would have approved. By the way, as the keeper of Louis ...

The very inspiration Perry honed as a young artist came from the dichotomy at the Wallace Collection – it’s contrasting depictions of extreme femininity from the 18th century French Rococo ... s ...

Madame de Pompadour remained King Louis XV's mistress for 19 years ... Some also gained great political power. In the 1540s and 50s, the French King Henri II's mistress, Diane de Poitiers, imposed ...