Strange what one of you said about the dress beeing something marie antoinette would have worn, Christian Lacroix explained that he took inspiration from the beautiful embroided silk which hangs on marie antoinette's bedroom walls in Versailles for the bolero. So you have a point.
Even more funny, is the fact that princess Philomena, with her coloured tiara, ended to look like a queen from the very early french Moyen Age, which was completely appropriate in a town like senlis where prince Jean's ancestor, Hugues Capet, was elected king of France in 987.
To tell you the truth, i was surprised at the beginning and then, i thought, this is at least something new which she likes and it suits her.
Absolutely different from the perfect classical dress with a white tiara, but after all
, it is a style, and aren't we a bit fed up with brides always looking the same ? I am.