(toskanews) – Dream dresses, suit impeccable, bold hats and a wedding dress as fairytale as ever before: the entire wardrobe of the Queen Elizabeth II comes to life in an explosion of British style King’s Gallery of Buckingham Palace. The exhibition Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style opens its doors tomorrow, April 10thwith 200 breathtaking pieces – almost half unpublished – to celebrate the 100 years since birth of the sovereign of the century.
Queen Elizabeth II, a journey through jewels and unpublished sketches
From overviews on gowns glittering in close-ups tiara and military uniformsthe exhibition is a journey through time among sketches, jewels and fabrics that have made the history of fashion. And with the curator Caroline de Guitaut we have a preview.
«We are here in the King’s Gallery of Buckingham Palace to visit the exhibition Queen Elizabeth II: Her life in stylewhich reveals, for the first time and with an unprecedented level of detail, theThe Queen’s fashion archive. The exhibition brings together exceptional garments, as well as accessories, jewelery and ephemera linked to this collection.”
Fashion as a sense of duty
Not just nostalgia: it is the story of a queen who translated her well-known sense of duty in high fashionsupporting the British design against the giants and big Parisian brands.
De Guitaut sums it up passionately: «I believe that yes, this exhibition celebrates a very auspicious anniversary, the centenary of his birth of Queen Elizabeth II, and I hope that visitors can really gain a much deeper understanding of it than hers relationship with British fashionof the role it played in supporting British design.”
A riot of style that promises to enchant visitors from all over the world, bringing back to light the secrets of a character entered into our everyday life but also into history.
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