This season, the designer duo built on their passion for the arts and the Baroque period. The collection is inspired by the life of Marie de’ Medici, exuberantly and dramatically drawn by the renowned Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens’ in his prominent Marie de’ Medici Cycle. Born to the powerful Florentine Medici family, Marie de’ Medici would later become Queen of France. She was the second wife of Henry IV, and grandmother of the infamous Louis XIV. Queen Marie was known for her admirable taste in music, fashion, literature and the arts.