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Friday, October 22, 2021 6:00 PM (CT)
Bob and Jean Smith Auditorium - Meadows Museum
214.768.8587meadowsmuseuminfo@smu.edu
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, fashion historian, curator, and journalist
During Spain’s Golden Age, its fashions were admired and imitated across Europe. But the decline of Spanish power and the ascendancy of France under Louis XIV (r. 1643–1715) shifted the axis of fashion, art and culture to Paris. Eighteenth-century travelers remarked that Spanish women dressed in “modern French fashion.” But their French counterparts increasingly looked to Spain’s past glories for inspiration. Neither antique nor modern, traditional Spanish costume was a picturesque and timeless alternative to the increasingly fickle fashions of the era, inspiring masquerade, theater and court costumes as well as genre scenes and portraits à l’espagnole. Once easily distinguishable from French fashion, Spanish style began to permeate everyday dress and by the reign of Louis XVI (r. 1774–1792), even the royal family embraced the new Spanish-accented rustic elegance. This lecture explores the relationship between French and Spanish fashion during the eighteenth century.
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