Caroline Weber

Caroline Weber

Associate Professor of French Literature, Columbia University

A specialist in eighteenth-century French literature and culture, Weber is a fashion historian and the author of "Queen of Fashion: What Marie-Antoinette Wore to the French Revolution." She is also an Associate French Professor at Barnard College.

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A conversation with the fashion historian and professor of French Literature at Barnard.
A fashion historian needs to be an expert on her own wardrobe.
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Fashion historian Caroline Weber wants to know to what extent those miracles really happened.
The fashion author and historian worries about the quantity and quality of her output.
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Alexander McQueen has an idea that could transform the age-old parades of seasonal style, says Caroline Weber, a French literature professor at Barnard.
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Fashion historian Caroline Weber is hoping we’ll pass out of the phase in which celebrities are the ultimate trendsetters. Only then will style become original again.
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Barnard professor Caroline Weber recalls an embarrassing moment on the French Metro that speaks volumes about the disparate relationship that American and French women have with fashion.