I am interested in our Royal family’s Fashion, past and present. In the Library I came across a book called ‘Fashionista A century of style Icons’. Aware that Royals have been very influential on our fashion I began to flick through this book to see which ones were mentioned. I came across the Title ‘The Duchess of Windsor’ and with further reading I learnt that just for her honeymoon she took sixty-six dresses!

Looking more into the Royal’s fashion I remembered about an exhibition that had previously been on. I searched this and found on Vogue’s website there was an article about this exhibition which was called ‘Fashion Rules Restyled’ that occurred at Kensington Palace. By reading this it was interesting to find out what the people that designed the Royal’s clothes need to consider such as keeping to one block colour so that the Royal is visible.

I then found an article in Vogues most recent edition which talked about the Queen and her life. Although this article focused less on her fashion It still gave a good representation of the Queen herself which I think intern is reflected into her clothes. They talk about the Queen being ‘a sensible girl’, which I think explains the sensibleness of the clothes she wears. It talks about the Queen’s dresses and explains why they have not changed too much in the many years she has reigned.

Looking at these different articles I found it interesting the different views and scopes taken on such an iconic families. It is a much discussed subject about the way they dress and from this I think that we can see how fashion is important in representing our individuality.

Bibliography

Book:
Werle, S (2009) Fashionista A Century of Style Icons London: Prestel Publishing

Website:
Milligan, L (2016) Inside Three Royal Wardrobes Available from:
http://www.vogue.co.uk/gallery/queen-princess-diana-exhibition-fashion-rules-restyled[Accessed 13 November 2017]

Magazine Article:
Smith, Z (2017) Mrs Windsor, Vogue, December, 135 – 138