Katell le Bourhis is Associate Curator for Special Projects, The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Through years of studying historical photos, home movies, museum collections and archives, the filmmaking team actually helped to revive parts of the Osage culture, including the making of authentic clothing. Napoleon had this beautiful green velvet coat along with a fur hat, which you see briefly in the movie. Well, whatever you may need the French Emperor for, just know that we've got the outfit if you're in need.

One of the most daunting scenes was the massive coronation, which took place at Notre Dame in 1804 and is depicted in “The Coronation of Napoleon,” the 1807 painting by Jacques-Louis David. The shirt and pants, crafted from pristine white gabardine fabric, provide a crisp and polished look. The Apple Original Films and Columbia Pictures production is a military action movie crossed with a love story that stars Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon and Vanessa Kirby as Empress Josephine.

Napoleon marries Josephine, but later, she’s exiled to Château de Malmaison, where she’s dressed in a violet-colored cape unlike anything she’s worn before. with essays by Patricia Lee Rubin, Beverly Louise Brown, Peter Humfrey, and Rudolf Preimesberger, and contributions by Andrea Bayer, Francesco Caglioti, Eleonara Luciano, and Stephen K. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Mary Tavener Holmes, Fritz Koreny, Donald Posner, and Duncan Robinson. David: We had to hit the ground running and push forward with the embroidery because if we’d waited around for the final script and casting, it just wouldn’t have happened [in time].You can make a hat from this [bark] because it will take the stiffener and the heat to form a lovely shape.

Carpenter, Stephanie D’Alessandro, Clare Davies, Jayson Kerr Dobney, Ashley Dunn, Adam Eaker, Maryam Ekhtiar, Helen C. Heckscher, Thomas Hoving, Marilynn Johnson, Oscar White Muscarella, John Goldsmith Phillips, Olga Raggio, and Emanuel Winternitz. Pastelists at Work: Two Portraits at the Metropolitan Museum by Maurice Quentin de La Tour and Jean Baptiste Perroneau. If you are a California resident, California law may consider certain disclosures of data a “sale” of your personal information (such as cookies that help Motion Picture Association later serve you ads, like we discuss in our Privacy Policy here), and may give you the right to opt out. There are even foam medals printed and pinned to the outfit, so you can look like a proper strategic genius.A Tale of Two Chapeaux: Fashion, Revolution, and David’s Portrait of the Lavoisiers": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. This men's Napoleon costume, made by California Costumes, is perfect for a historical themed or even international fancy dress event. I Cacciatori Amanti': The Portrait of Count Giacomo Durazzo and His Wife by Martin van Meytens the Younger.