Citation

Arnold R. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 2014; (12): 295-312.

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(Copyright © 2014)

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Abstract

In the last twenty years, a visual style evolved within cinema, in particular within Sofia Coppola's films, The Virgin suicides (1999), Lost in translation (2003) and Marie Antoinette (2006), and in fashion imagery, including Corinne Day's photographs and Stella McCartney's designs, which expressed a light, feminine ideal reminiscent of the eighteenth-century Rococo. This essay explores the reasons why this 'new Rococo' style, a pastiche of eighteenth-century and contemporary reference points, emerged, and considers how it enabled these image-makers to validate contemporary feminine and fashionable ideals, but also to foreground these as constructed surfaces.

Language: en