Kate Middleton may have gone through a considered style transformation in recent months since becoming Britain’s new Princess of Wales, but throughout she has remained a loyal client of one of the most influential fashion labels which has seen her develop from royal bride to one of the most influential women in the world.
Kate has been noted for her fashion picks since becoming a focus of public interest in the early 2000s while dating Prince William. Her most eagerly anticipated fashion choice was over who would design her 2011 wedding dress, which would ultimately become a defining moment in royal fashion history.
On April 29, 2011, just moments before Kate walked down the aisle of Westminster Abbey it was announced that the commission of the dress had been entrusted to the design house of Alexander McQueen.
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Lee “Alexander” McQueen was a revolutionary designer, educated in London and a former head of the Paris house of Givenchy. McQueen was known as the bad boy of British fashion who joked that, when he trained on Savile Row, the heartland of British tailoring, he drew phallic symbols in chalk on the linings of then-Prince Charles’ suits.
McQueen died in February 2010, before Kate and William became engaged, and it was his right-hand-woman and successor as head of his fashion label, Sarah Burton, who formed the close working relationship with Kate that has stretched over a decade.
For many of the most important royal occasions of her married life, Kate has returned to Burton whose expert eye and famous tight-lipped confidential nature have made her one of the most prolific designers of her time.
From Trooping the Colour parades to Jubilees and state banquets, Kate has regularly been seen in a McQueen coat dress, evening…
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