The Mexican-American’s elegant dress took 14 rolls of duck tape and 120 hours to make. It was inspired by 18th-century French art that she saw at the Getty Museum, per her profile on the Duck ...

It took a village to bring so many opulent 18th-century-inspired looks to life for “Marie Antoinette” — including two costume designers, a 65-person costume department, and the House of Dior.

At the recent Paris Fashion Week, haute couture from the planet’s most renowned fashion houses was paraded and admired. Not for the first time, collections and designs nodded to past trends, but ...

Fashion from the 18th century is notorious for being painful to wear, from constricting corsets to tight footwear. ... Fabrics were sourced in the UK and Europe, mainly France and Italy.

Dress codes shown in 18th-Century art can tell us a lot about race and identity – both then and now. Cath Pound explores the details hidden in the "Casta" paintings of Latin America.