LONDON (Reuters) -From her dazzling jewels and silk footwear to modern interpretations of her extravagant gowns, a new exhibition exploring the style of France’s doomed 18th century queen Marie Antoinette opens in London this week.

Running at the V&A Museum, “Marie Antoinette Style” is the UK’s first exhibition dedicated to the queen, a member of the Austrian royal family who wed French King Louis XVI.

She became a fashionable and contentious figure, known for her opulent taste, before she and her husband were overthrown during the French Revolution and executed in 1793. Marie Antoinette was 37 years old.

“(The exhibition is) about the style shaped by the most fashionable queen in history, Marie Antoinette,” exhibition curator Sarah Grant said in an interview.

“We look at the style tha

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