Reconstruction of Marie Antoinette’s cell in the Conciergerie, Paris.

11/8 - 2015

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Inspiration: baby blue menswear

This week I’ve posted a LOT of menswear (from the incredibly ugly Moschino collectiontomodern and antique embroidery and the perfect macaroni outfit), so let’s begin the weekend with this little selection of baby blue menswear very much in the mood of the pink menswear post.

Baby blue is a nice colour elegant and easy to the eye, is somehow discreet and offers a nice contrast with gold and yellow embelishments and a cold and similiar background to grey and silver.

And of course we must add that pastel colours rule.

Photos from top:

• Still from the 2001 Swedish mini-series “The Marriage of Gustav III” (Gustav III:s äktenskap)
  
• “Portrait of Jean Charles Garnier d’Isle”, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, ca. 1750
  
• Three-piece suit made of silk with metallic-thread passementerie, French, ca. 1765
• Porcelain blue waistcoat made in London with textile made by Peter Lekeux and designed by Anna Maria Garthwaite, brocaded with silver-gilt poliate and appiquéd with polychrome silk, 1747
• Wool suit, British, ca. 1780
• Waistcoat with same colour silk embroidery, made in China for the Western market, ca. 1740
• Blue three-piece suit with golden embelishments, French, ca. 1725-1750 (detail and waistcoat)
• “Portrait of a gentleman (maybe Armand Guillaume François de Gourges, Marquis of Vayres and d’Aulnay), Jean Valade, 1753
• Three-piece suit of silk with moiré finish embroidered with sequins and metallic-thread, France, ca. 1760
• “Portrait of Marie-Joseph Peyre”,  Marie-Suzanne Giroust, 1771

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A sculpture of Marie Antoinette, 19th century, after a contemporary bust by Louis-Simon Boizot.

[credit:© RMN-Grand Palais / Hervé Lewandowski]

“Terrible news from Paris. Thursday morning the palace [of the Tuileries] was attacked; the king and queen escaped to the Assembly. At one o´clock the populace were fighting in the courtyard and the Carousel. Blood flowed in streams; many killed and hanged; the palace forced on all sides; eight pieces of cannon levelled and firing upon it […] My god, what horrors!

[…] Mercy said in the evening that the Assembly had surrounded itself with cannon, and that step awed the factious. The king had either been deposed, or had abdicated of his own accord.”

- Axel von Fersen in his journal on the 13th of August 1792, three days after the events at the Assembly.

Commission from Scarfofsilver