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‘Corsage’ Review: A Superb Vicky Krieps Gives the Empress New Clothes in a Brilliant Reclamation of the ‘Sissi’ Legend Reviewed at Soho Screening Rooms, London, May 6, 2022.
Bora Aksu pays tribute to the royal ‘beauty queen’ Empress Sisi at London Fashion Week - The Turkish designer showcased a regal display at St Paul’s Church in Covent Garden.
Nearly 125 years after her assassination, the Empress Elisabeth of Austria — or Sisi to her enduring cultists — continues to inspire a veritable industry of portraiture in Europe: In the last ...
‘Sisi & I’ Review: Lively, Gorgeously Attired Costume Drama Continues the Radicalization of Austria’s Empress Elisabeth Reviewed at Berlin Film Festival (Panorama), Feb. 19, 2023.
Before there was Lady Di, there was Sisi. Here's why this 19th-century Austrian empress is everywhere in movies and TV right now.
Sisi’s legend became a European obsession thanks to the performance of Romy Schneider in the 1955 movie Sissi, one of the most successful German-language movies of all time.
The Austrian Empress was renowned for her arresting appearance throughout her reign—and beyond. Sisi made it a point to seek out anything novel and unexplored in her pursuit of beauty treatments.
It is hard to imagine the same fate befalling Krieps, and not just because “Corsage” is an infinitely better movie than, say, 1958’s “Sissi: Fateful Years of an Empress,” the trilogy’s ...