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Caroline Weber

Associate Professor of French Literature, Columbia University

A conversation with the fashion historian and professor of French Literature at Barnard. Read More

A fashion historian needs to be an expert on her own wardrobe. Read More

Fashion historian Caroline Weber wants to know to what extent those miracles really happened. Read More

The fashion author and historian worries about the quantity and quality of her output. Read More

Alexander McQueen has an idea that could transform the age-old parades of seasonal style, says Caroline Weber, a French literature professor at Barnard. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

When fashion expert Caroline Weber studies the significance of today’s style, she is struck by the rapid pace of changing trends, all working to feed the $300 billion industry. Read More

From Marie Antoinette to Michelle Obama, one’s clothing often has the power to dictate their fate, says fashion historian and Barnard professor Caroline Weber. Read More

Historian Caroline Weber takes us through the origination of fashion, which started as early as the 12th century. Read More

About Caroline Weber

Caroline Weber

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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