Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s lifelong relationship with fashion is masterfully surveyed in Buckingham Palace\u2019s current exhibition, Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style. In our latest installment of \u201cObjects of Affection,\u201d Vogue\u2019s global editor at large, Hamish Bowles, and surveyor of the King\u2019s works of arts, Caroline de Guitaut, walk through The King\u2019s Gallery to admire the beloved monarch\u2019s most quintessential moments.<\/p>\n
In addition to the clothing itself, the archive showcases rare documentation, correspondence, and fashion sketches\u2014all of which assemble a narrative surrounding her relationship with fashion. \u201cThe great takeaway,\u201d de Guitaut says, \u201cis that she was deeply, deeply involved in the production of her clothing.\u201d Take the numerous dresses by Norman Hartnell on display as an example, the queen\u2019s most favored collaborator.<\/p>\n
Within the exhibition is Hartnell\u2019s iconic yellow silk tulle gown known as the Wattle Dress. It was created for her royal tour of Australia in 1954 and reveals white and yellow wattle blossom motifs to honor her first visit to the country as queen. \u201cShe always wanted her designers to incorporate something for the host nation, and this is a remarkable example of that,\u201d Bowles explains.<\/p>\n
Similarly exquisite inclusions in the collection span the queen\u2019s lifetime\u2014from floral cotton lawn dresses that she and Princess Margaret played in as children (crafted in Liberty London florals), to her coronation dress that, as Bowles puts it, \u201cwas greeted with rapture\u201d by the post-war public.<\/p>\n
Walking through the exhibition\u2019s various rooms illuminates who the queen was and what she wanted to convey through the way she dressed. \u201cThat sense of communication with audiences was so important to her even without needing to speak,\u201d de Guitaut says. \u201cThe clothes did so much of the talking.\u201d<\/p>\n
Director: Catherine Orchard
Director Of Photography: Rachel Clark
Editors: Katie Wolford, Michael Suyeda<\/p>\n
Producer: Rashida Josiah
Associate Producer: Anisa Kennar<\/p>\n
Assistant Camera: Louise Murphy
Gaffer: Kieran Waites
Audio: Joanna Hunt
Runner: Edie Chesters
Groomer: Nadia Altinbas<\/p>\n
Production Coordinator: Tan\u00eda Jones
Production Manager: Kristen Helmick
Senior Production Manager: Venita Singh-Warner
Line Producer: Natasha Soto-Albors<\/p>\n
Assistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow
Post Production Coordinator: Holly Frew
Supervising Editor: Kameron Key
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch<\/p>\n
Executive Producer :Rahel Gebreyes
Senior Director, Digital Video: Romy van den Broeke
Senior Director, Programming: Linda Gittleson
VP, Video Programming: Thespena Guatieri<\/p>\n
Images Courtesy of \u00a9 Royal Collection Enterprises Limited, Royal Collection Trust, Jon Stokes, Paul Bulley, Roger and Faye Dargie<\/p>\n
Filmed on Location: The King\u2019s Gallery, Buckingham Palace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s lifelong relationship with fashion is masterfully surveyed in Buckingham Palace\u2019s current exhibition, Queen Elizabeth II:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[5069,9,24,63,122,124,123,13801,19769,990],"class_list":["post-217773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-living","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-storytypenews-trending","tag-textabovecenterfullbleed","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}