Rose Bertin: The Minister of Fashion Nobody Elected
Rose Bertin was a milliner's daughter from a cloth town in northern France who ended up dressing Marie Antoinette twice a week in private, and built what might be the first modern fashion business along the way: a guild leadership, forty-odd staff, and a client list of fifteen hundred people stretching across the royal courts of Europe. This episode covers the chemise à la reine, the pouf hairstyles, the business machinery behind "Le Grand Mogol," and what happened to her when the Revolution came for the queen she'd dressed for twenty years.
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