Text: Natalia Orlova-Obolenskaya "IF THERE DO NOT HAVE BREAD, LET THE EATING CASES ..." SAY THAT THE LEGENDARY PHRASE THROWN ON ONE OF THE SQUARE OF PARIS IN THE MOST DENSE OF AN ENDURED CROWD, AND CAUSED A RESPONSE. AT THE END OF THE XVIII CENTURY THE LUXURY LOSED. AT THE BEGINNING OF THE XXI CENTURY, THE ROCCO CAPRICES HAVE FORMED A TREND.
Well, Marie Antoinette really loved her people. However, such statements about the subjects did not allow herself. After all, she was well brought up. With Christian sympathy, she treated all disadvantaged. And as they would say these days, she actively participated in various charity programs!
But in this phrase, by the way, attributed to the fierce opponent of the hated "Madame Deficit" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the style and attitude of Marie Antoinette to luxury and the very spirit of the end of the gallant era are perfectly noted and conveyed. The last queen of “whim" loved luxury. And led a rather wasteful and extravagant lifestyle. But then far more elegantly than her predecessors she was able to raise all the main entertainments of the French aristocracy into a cult. Magnificent fabrics, unique clockworks, intricate hairstyles, exquisite aromas and perfumed bath accessories, morning and evening make-up, coupled with the most delicate cakes and sweetest dessert wines, were used in excess in the courtyard of the times of Louis VI.
The main fetish was hairstyles. And the manner of trusting the head to a personal cufer! Refinement and maximum unnaturalness ruled the ball everywhere, causing ridicule of writers and ordinary people. The hairstyles were tall, lush and made up a single whole with intricate headgear. History knows many examples of fantastic constructions from false hair and hairpieces with interweaving of all kinds of ribbons, roses and whole fruit baskets ...
All the most complex and expressive constructions were erected by the legendary hairstylist - and in gallant times, Kuafers were equated with artists - Monsieur Leonard Bolyar. It was he with his "creative bureau" who recreated the famous "hunting scenes", Peisan pastorals with windmills and sheep, fruit still lifes and pictures from fashion plays ...
His most famous work was the a-la Belle Poule hairstyle. They worked on the 70-centimeter building for about 10 hours, standing on the stairs and stands ... But at the magnificent ball in Versailles, Marie Antoinette showed a miniature copy of the frigate of the same name that attacked the British and their famous HMS Arethus in 1778.
The Queen’s special passion for jewelry gave rise to a different fashion ... Hairstyles sparkled and shimmered with all the colors of the rainbow ... And the ladies literally bent under the weight of gold and precious stones ... Sometimes the total weight of jewelry, skillfully decorating locks of hair, according to the information stored in the archives, exceeded the weight of the owner of a luxurious and complicated hairstyles!
In the 1970s, the famous jewelry house Graff offered its version of the "precious hairstyle" of gallant times to the world. "Styling in a million" - namely, how much the jewels placed in the hair cost in total - became a real sensation. In 2013, Graff decided to repeat the success by making a replica and investing $ 500 million in the model’s head.
How to make a hairstyle in the style of Marie Antoinette:
- Wash your hair and comb your hair well, divide them into wide locks
- Put on the top of the frame - voluminous, but light: mesh with a feather, foam
- Lift hair in a row and secure to the frame. Curl. Wind the ends
- Powder your hair with blue, pink or white rice powder
- Decorate your hair with ribbons, feathers, flowers or delicate lace. Vuala!
Katy Perry: Being Marie Antoinette!
- The image of a sophisticated aristocrat required the use of silver, white, fawn and pink powder for fluffy whipped hair.
- The lady put on a linen peignoir pudermantel, so as not to spoil the dress and make-up.
- And she held a long mask with plates of mica near her eyes, while the hairdresser poured it abundantly. Katy Perry showed all this in her video.
- By the way, Kuafers were called "merlan" - "fish boneless in flour."
