The 18th-century French royal wardrobe involved many layers, starting with a cotton or linen chemise. Dresses got their structure thanks to panniers — short hoop skirts that added volume around ...

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 ...

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.

Objects such as François-André Vincent’s glasses are illuminated through histories of reading, of seeing and of measuring time Portrait of the painter Francois Andre Vincent (1746-1816), 18th ...

In the 18th century, people only had letters, but what they wrote about feels very familiar.” England and France have a long, complicated history of being at war, most notably the Hundred Years ...