Queen Elizabeth II had style. An inimitable and very elegant style. We will remember her sometimes extravagant hats, the bright color of her suits, her gloves and her inseparable handbag.
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Queen Elizabeth II is more than 70 years of reign and style.
During her coronation on June 2, 1953, the young queen wore a magnificent white silk dress, designed by British fashion designer Norman Hartnell, who had created the future queen’s wedding dress in 1947. During the 1950s, the young Elizabeth II represents the revival of the United Kingdom: she wears majestic long dresses always very glamorous, made of lace, tulle and silk decorated with gold threads, for the state banquets and the evenings which she attends.
Over the years, on a daily basis, Her Majesty has opted for colourful, made-to-measure skirt suits in pinks, mauves, blues, yellows, greens and oranges. She never goes unnoticed and is nicknamed the Rainbow Queen.
Her hat always matches her outfit. Always impeccable, she very often wears a pearl necklace, a jewel brooch and moccasins with low heels. She never separates from her Launer handbag, a British luxury brand, of which she has 200 copies.
Her wardrobe would be made up of more than 11,000 pieces, colorful, flowery sets, as well as ball gowns.
Comfortable clothes
You always have to be able to spot the Queen from afar, in crowds, and that’s one of the reasons she wears bright colors. The choice of color will also be made according to the country she is visiting; for example, she chooses red for Canada. His choice can also correspond to a political message; she often wears green, the color of hope.
The queen avoids black, reserved for mourning, and gray, which is not a color that enhances her. She should be comfortable in her clothes, they should not bother her, be neither too tight nor too loose, the cut should be perfect and the skirt should be below the knee.
For a long time, it was the designer Hardy Amies who took care of the queen’s wardrobe and made her many suits. For more than 25 years, it was Angela Kelly who was her stylist, and, it is said, maintained a relationship of great complicity with her. The stylist chose the fabrics, colors, hats, jewelry and shoes, which she even went so far as to wear first so that the queen would find them comfortable.
It’s Angela Kelly who makes the queen look more pop, and even makes her a fashion icon with her head-to-toe monochrome outfits. It was the latter who proposed to the Queen to attend a fashion show during London Fashion Week in 2018, where she is seated, delighted, next to Anna Wintour, editor of the American magazine vogue.
The Queen’s favorite outfits are said to be those she wears in the countryside or during her stays at Balmoral Castle, Scotland. A Barbour jacket or a raincoat, boots, a tweed skirt, a knit cardigan, a scarf (Hermès or Burberry) on the head, and neutral colors, to blend in with nature this time. It was in her royal residence of Balmoral that the queen passed away peacefully on Thursday.