Royals Love: Lace

Another section in our "Royals Love Series". This time with lace:

Designers (left to right): McQueen, Erdem, Erdem, Jenny Packham, McQueen, Jenny Packham, Temperly

The Duchess of Cambridge is a very big fan of lace it showed back when she married in 2011 and last year, during the Diamond Jubilee and her tour of Asia. Catherine turns to different designers when it comes to lace. Above, there are the names fo the designers that Catherine wore in the past two years.

Other royals also have a love of lace, Crown Princess Mary has worn more than two lace dresses. Last year she wore two dazzling numbers! The Hereditary Grand Duchess wore a lace dress (I think) for her wedding. Princess Letizia wore a lace dress last year and a evening gown with a lace top a while back.

Wedding Wednesday: Duchess of Cambridge’s Gown

In 4 days, Prince William and Catherine were married in London and were named the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. So let’s get into the magical dress:

Catherine chose Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen (that was not my guess for the designer). Her dress consisted many, many, many pieces of lace. On her sleeves, there were 4 different kinds of flowers. 

I love the shape of the train, it’s so nice. The dress was 2 meters and 70 centimetres or near 8 foot 10 inches. The Train as well had lace on it. The lace was made by the Royal School of Needlework (they didn’t even know that it was the lace for the royal Wedding dress. – They had to change their needle every 30 minutes, and wash their hands I think every hour.)

The back of Catherine’s dress include 58 buttons, a bustle and lace galore!

Under the dress she had a big skirt of tulle (Tulle gives a puff.)

The bouquet was small (and I don’t like comparing things to Princess Diana but, it was very small compared to Diana’s.) The bouquet included myrtle, lily-of-the-valley, sweet William and hyacinth flowers. The shoes were nice too, they were made by McQueen and the lace by the Royal School of Needlework.

The earrings were hand-made for Catherine, the top part was because of the scrolls on the tiara and the acorn is suppose to resemble the Middleton family emblem. The tiara that Catherine wore was the Cartier Halo Scroll Tiara. Catherine wore her hair half-up, half-down.

The only thing I would have liked more was Catherine, used too much Grace, and Margaret inspired dress then just Catherine Elizabeth Middleton style.

Fashion Friday: Noble Prize Awards Trough the Years

Ok, ya, It’s late (well, it depends where you live.) Ok, just a heads-up, I will have a Fashion Saturday for the Queen’s Dresses – which are amazing (Take my word). So enjoy they last 10 years of fashion!

2001

Dresses: Ok, Love Silvia right now! The Nina Rucci Dress is amazing! I like Victoria’s but, not a Huge Fan.

Tiaras: If anyone knows me personally, you would know, that I LOVE Tiaras. I like the Baden Fringe Tiara. I as well like the Sapphire tiara that Silvia is wearing.

2002

Dresses: Ok. Um…Well we have a Swedish/Danish/Greek/German Princess. Benedick accualy is related to the Swedish Family (because her mum was a Swedish Princess). Anyways, Madeleine, Madeleine, Madeleine. Way to low cut! You know better. I am partly in love with Benedick’s Dress.

Tiaras: Ya! The Modern Fringe Tiara is on top of Madeleine’s head! And Benedick, always a favourite of yours.

Dress: Ok, um…it’s not that bad.

Tiara: Not a favourite tiara of mine. Not a good year for Silvia.

2003

Dresses: Well… sorry to say but, they are both terrible, a wreck.

Tiaras: Not loving Victoria’s but, I am loving Madeleine’s…Is it her property?

Dress: The Dress is to much for my taste.

Tiara: I like the tiara. Sorry but…It looked better on Madeleine.

2004

Dresses: Accually, not terrible! They are very lovely!

Tiaras: I don’t like Victoria’s but, I do like Silvia’s.

2005

Dresses: I am actually all in love with all of them. Especially Madeleine’s!

Tiaras: Silvia is busting out the Cameo Tiara. Nice!

2006

Dresses: Love all of them!

Tiaras: Love all of them, again.

Dress: Amazing. I actually love the big, long sleeves.

Tiara: Again, so very lovely.

2007

Dresses: Not really a good year for the dresses. Oh, Silvia! What are you wearing. Madeleine is the only one who is decent.

Tiaras: Again, Madeleine… the only one decent. I don’t like Victoria’s or Silvia.

2008

Dresses: Ok, Silvia, you have to step up your game. And Victoria! You look so beautiful! So lovely! So…I can’t put it into words!

Tiaras: OMG! Everyone had a good tiara! OMG! OMG!

2009

Dresses: I love them all. They are amazing!!

Tiaras: Ok Madeleine is always the one who makes me happy. Victoria you should have worn the Amethyst Tiara.

Dress: Silvia, go back to wearing Jørgen Bender.

Tiara: Latley, it seems Silvia just wears this tiara every 2 years. Could this be the tiara she wears tomorrow?

2010

Dresses: Yeah, both Elie Saab – A brand I now love. Ok at the King’s Banquet it’s ok. At the Ceremony, Oh! If I wore it I would look super old!

Tiara/Hair Piece: Oh, The Cut Steel Tiara has never looked so lovely on Victoria’s head.

Dresses: Ok… First the Ceremony. OMG! LOVE it! So much Emerald. And The King’s Banquet. Um… Should I say anything?

Tiaras: They should really get a emerald tiara, to go with Green Dresses. But overall the tiaras are ok.

2011

Royals:

Sweden:

• Crown Princess Victoria
• Prince Carl Philip
• Queen Silvia
• King Carl

Luxembourg:

• Grand Duke Henri
• Grand Duchess Maria

Dresses:

Sweden:

• Victoria - Elie Saab

Luxembourg:

• Maria Theresa – Elie Saab

Fashion Friday: What will Catherine wear for Christmas?

Daily Mail just recently posted: What will Catherine wear for Christmas? – that includes 5 outfits! Which includes a casual outfit for breakfast, a smart outfit - and a hat - for the morning church service, a dress for lunch, a cocktail dress for early evening drinks and a full-length dress for the evening meal.

She as well said she will not be able to wear a outfit she has worn before. So anyways, this will be about Kate, what she might wear.

Possible outfits:

Breakfast

Yes 3 are Elie Saab and the rest are Reiss. I am in love with the light blue dress from Elie Saab, the gray Elie Saab and all the Reiss dresses with the model.

Church Service

Well, you all might say: “Why are there just coats? What about dresses? Just Coats? They won’t just wear coats!!” Well, Duh! They won’t! I am in love with the red coat and the middle coat.

Lunch

The first 3 dresses have bland colours. I like the Brighter colours, I love the dark red dress.

Evening Drinks

 

These I really like. And yes, the bright blue one is ISSA, Similar to Catherine’s Engagement Dress and the Dress she wore in Canada on the 2nd day in the evening. I love the 2nd and 1st dresses to the right, I love them.

Evening Dinner

Yes if you are a Elie Saab fan, you would know that these, every single one of these are Elie Saab’s hopefully Princess Beatrice won’t be the only Royal in the Family to be wearing Elie Saab. I have to say I L-O-V-E the black one with the train.