Historical tiaras
Love, fashion, and power...
The tradition of tiaras began during the Greek and Roman empires, when
high-ranking men and women wore headpieces as symbols of their status.
But it was Napoleon who made them truly en vogue: with the aim of
presenting his court as the most magnificent in 19th-century Europe—and
to associate himself with the ancient emperors of the past—he
commissioned a number of fantastical headpieces for his wife, Josephine.
Soon enough, all the noblewomen of their court began to follow her
fashionable neoclassical suit, as did the rest of the grand houses of
Europe.
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