Hey, listen...
Princess Caroline attended the 2017 Rose Ball
in Monaco this weekend.
I
did say that the
advanced Chanel-ing should be left to the Monacos.
There's actually a lot more to unpack here, once you get past the initial giggle stage. The Rose Ball always has a theme; this year's, overseen again by Karl Lagerfeld, was a tribute to the
Vienna Secession art movement. In keeping with that theme, Caroline's dress is part inspiration and part copy of the style of dress worn by Emilie Flöge.
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| Emilie Flöge |
Flöge was an Austrian fashion designer and the life companion of artist Gustav Klimt, one of the founders of the movement. This was an avant garde style of dress at the time (and it sort of still is, I guess, over a century later). It was also a feminist style of dress, eschewing the use of a corset.
Now, this 2017 version, on its own? That'll be a big no thank you. But I do think it's pretty cute how pleased Princess Caroline seems to be with her tribute dress. She looks like she had fun with it, and really, what's the point of having a theme if you're not going to get into it? (Those enormous diamond floral earrings, which have been worn by Caroline multiple times over the years, can come home with me any time, by the way.)
Pierre Casiraghi and Beatrice Borromeo, who welcomed son Stefano on
February 28th, were in attendance, as was Charlotte Casiraghi. Beatrice
looked gorgeously old Hollywood with
another pair of divine earrings. Charlotte's dress seemed a departure from her style to me, and then I realized that it actually
isn't her style, strictly speaking:
it's an old dress of her mother's. I love that. I can only imagine what "vintage" treasures lie in some of these royal wardrobes.
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