The discovery of a rare set of fashion plates from a French Revolution-era magazine gave Anne Higonnet insight into a time when women’s clothing became a force of cultural and social change.

In Revolution-era Paris, three radically chic media stars swept away centuries of strictures about what women should wear and how they should live. A new book unveils the other French Revolution.

Overlooked, familiar, homely… These are the words traditionally associated with the apron, a detachable, workaday garment ...

Let them wear Manolos! The Victoria & Albert Museum has unveiled plans for an exhibition on the fashion legacy of Marie Antoinette. The museum bills her as “the most fashionable, scrutinised and ...

The improbable rise of three women who helped transform French fashion. Anne Higonnet’s “Liberty Equality Fashion” elevates the role of Juliette Récamier, Térézia Tallien and Joséphine ...

During a time when social status meant everything, women of the 18th century literally made an indelible footprint on early ...

With its new exhibition “Mood of the Moment,” the Jewish Museum in New York highlights the Jewish Egyptian entrepreneur Gaby Aghion’s groundbreaking work as the founder of French fashion ...

While Lora Jones’s debut is largely concerned with the impact of the French Revolution on the role and advancement of women (despite women’s involvement in some of the revolution’s most ...