{"id":159774,"date":"2025-11-03T03:20:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T03:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/159774\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T03:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T03:20:23","slug":"bazaar-prives-private-view-of-the-marie-antoinette-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/159774\/","title":{"rendered":"Bazaar Priv\u00e9&#8217;s private view of the Marie Antoinette exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-journey-content=\"true\" class=\"body-dropcap css-1vn2egp emevuu60\">On a stormy Thursday morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpersbazaar.com\/uk\/membership\/a62763433\/prive\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.harpersbazaar.com\/uk\/membership\/a62763433\/prive\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Priv\u00e9 \" class=\"body-link css-156jt4g emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Priv\u00e9 <\/a>members and Bazaar guests took shelter in the V&amp;A for a very special breakfast and private view of the museum\u2019s landmark exhibition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpersbazaar.com\/uk\/culture\/a68002323\/marie-antoinette-style-fashion-truth\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.harpersbazaar.com\/uk\/culture\/a68002323\/marie-antoinette-style-fashion-truth\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"\u2018Marie Antoinette Style\u2019\" class=\"body-link css-156jt4g emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u2018Marie Antoinette Style\u2019<\/a>, co-hosted with Manolo Blahnik. <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" class=\"css-1j6jf9a emevuu60\">Attendees were greeted on arrival by the beautiful sound of the grand piano in the majestic Gamble Room, as trays of fruit platters, pastries and smoked salmon canap\u00e9s were served with warming cups of coffee. Pieces from Manolo Blahnik\u2019s Marie Antoinette capsule collection were on proud display beside copies of our special collector\u2019s-edition September issue, emblazoned with one of Manolo\u2019s sketches for the 2006 Sofia Coppola film, for which he designed the shoes. <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" class=\"css-1j6jf9a emevuu60\">Bazaar\u2019s editor-in-chief Lydia Slater began proceedings with a welcome speech and was joined by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpersbazaar.com\/uk\/culture\/a68002435\/manolo-blahnik-marie-antoinette-shoes-obsession\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.harpersbazaar.com\/uk\/culture\/a68002435\/manolo-blahnik-marie-antoinette-shoes-obsession\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Manolo Blahnik\" class=\"body-link css-156jt4g emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Manolo Blahnik<\/a> CEO Kristina Blahnik, who spoke of her uncle\u2019s lifelong passion for the French queen, his involvement in the film and his sponsorship of the exhibition \u2013 which arose from his own enthusiasm for the project, after curators asked him to donate his sketches for display.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" class=\"css-1j6jf9a emevuu60\">The exhibition, which brings together several pieces owned by Marie Antoinette that have never before left France \u2013 and some which have been reunited for the first time since being in the queen\u2019s possession \u2013 is a feast for the senses, and was brought to life on a private guided tour by one of its chief curators, Helena Cox. <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" class=\"css-1j6jf9a emevuu60\">Guests then, of course, exited via the gift shop, armed with delicious treats from Manolo Blahnik and a copy of Bazaar\u2019s limited-edition Marie Antoinette cover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a stormy Thursday morning, Priv\u00e9 members and Bazaar guests took shelter in the V&amp;A for a very&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,92876,366,18,117,2037,596,2220,5489,19,17,88171,85904,77856,13516,43061,41846,48296],"class_list":{"0":"post-159774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-bazaar-prive","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-exhibition","17":"tag-fashion","18":"tag-france","19":"tag-history","20":"tag-ie","21":"tag-ireland","22":"tag-manolo-blahnik","23":"tag-marie-antoinette","24":"tag-membership","25":"tag-museum","26":"tag-shoes","27":"tag-sofia-coppola","28":"tag-va"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115483615096246727","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}