Sarah Grant
Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum who organized the 'Marie Antoinette: Style' exhibition and provides expert commentary on Marie Antoinette's clothing, jewellery and cultural impact.
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Mar 24, 2026 • 1h 6min
Did Fashion Kill Marie Antoinette?
Sarah Grant, curator at the V&A who organized the 'Marie Antoinette: Style' exhibition, discusses the queen’s wardrobes, jewellery and cultural afterlife. Hear about Versailles at the brink, why fashion mattered to court politics, towering hairstyles and muslin scandal, the Diamond Necklace affair, surviving relics like tiny shoes, and how Marie Antoinette became both reviled and endlessly admired.
