LIBERTY EQUALITY FASHION (HB)

The forgotten story of how Joséphine Bonaparte, Térézia Tallien, and Juliette Récamier dazzled the world with their radical style and transformed the fashion of the French Revolution. Overcoming forced marriages and imprisonment during the Terror, they cast off the rigid clothing regime of the past and became the first self-made fashion celebrities. After the French Revolution, a conservative reaction would keep women “buttoned up” for two centuries, making the fashion-forward story of the Three Graces even more resonant today.