What it is to be a lady. The expectations of how you should dress, how you should look, how you should conduct yourself, a story as old as time and driven into our brains from birth.
Informed by 18th Century art, especially Vigee Le Brun’s portraits of Marie Antoinette. As a foreign queen, the weight of France’s expectations grew heavy on Marie Antoinette’s shoulders, and she often took to “playing dress-up” as a peasant in an effort to experience a momentary escapism.
Playing with common tropes of how little girls are told to behave, like sweet little dolls and perfect princesses.
Two girls growing weary of their conditioned lives decide to break through and be free from societal norms.
