• The Ladies' Attire

    The exhibition is displayed in the gate wing of the Castle and can be viewed in rooms built in the same period as the costumes are from.

    Castle exhibitions

    Unique find in the

    storage chambers

    During a clean-up in one of the castle's storage chambers, Count Michael made a rare find. In an old box, he found a unique collection of great-great-grandmother Jessie's dresses and magazines from the 1800s with patterns that were incredibly well-preserved. The magazines from Paris contained patterns for the most extravagant dresses. They were then passed on to a seamstress who realised the pen strokes and sent the finished suits back. Several of these are on display in the exhibition.

    From haute couture

    to staff uniforms

    From haute couture

    to staff uniforms

    Marie Antoinette's

    dress

    You will also be able to experience an absolute unique piece of European fashion history. This treasure is a dress recreated from fragments of fabric from the only surviving dress worn by the former French Queen Marie-Antoinette in Versailles. Michael's grandmother, Countess Nonni, bought the original parts of the dress at an auction in Paris and then had a pattern scan made to recreate the dress.