How to Fashion a Neoclassical Queen
This heroine who inspired a nation’s resistance to Napoleonic globalization was pretty as a picture. She loved clothes for their own sake as much as for their symbolic value in propaganda. Like many a girly-girl, she had balls. After her death she was neutered. For over a hundred years, a series of mutations, adapted to reactionary politics and fascist myth, obscured the real woman and her self-made images almost entirely from view.
FULL TEXT reblogged from a contrablog, 2012
WHO IS LOUISE? WHAT IS SHE?
Schadow Prinzessinnengruppe (Crown Princess Louise and her younger sister Princess Frederica of Prussia) 1796 -7. Image: WGA
THE HUSBAND WHO LOVED UNIFORMS
BEING THE HEROINE’S SISTER
LOUISE OF PRUSSIA AND IMAGES OF FEMALE POWER
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