There's a thing called a "prison press", where you lay your suit (or gown) below your mattress and sleep on it to flatten it out.
That's what this gown looks like it had done to it.
Falconetti dress in 2020.
Great color, and that flounce at the bottom hem makes her legs look like stumps and she's got pretty much an ideal body for wearing clothes.
Lose that, it'd work.
McQueen, worn multiple times.
Snoooooore. Her princess-line coats look much better.
Alessandra Rich dress, worn multiple times.
Very, VERY unflattering Diana cosplay. That dropped waist is tragic.
Hail no.
Barbara Cassandra in 2016.
Her figure is the only way this worked. SUUUPER boring.
Needs a necklace.
Erdem, 2020.
I don't know what it is about the flounces but all they do is say "LOOK HOW WIDE I AM". She gets away with it because she's a twig but they still don't look GOOD.
This isn't part of the montage, but it's a princess line dress, with the fitting seams done vertically instead of horizontally. See how much better it looks? She still looks older than she is, but it's not disjointed.
Gucci, 2021.
Meghan wears pants, Kate wears pants.
With a bow. There's always a goddamn bow somewhere.
Jenny Packham, 2011.
If they're calling this great, they're either scraping the bottom of the barrel or using images the Palace sent over. This is average. At best.
In McQueen for Louis' christening.
I'll give her half a point since she's in church, but blurgh. So very blurgh.
Kate always does better when she's not wearing English designers.
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Today we're going to do a #JewelWatch thread that's kind of also a #RoyalWatch. It's one of those "I thought you knew that" kinds of things.
Look out, there's history.
The Delhi Durbar parure.
It is so named because after Queen Mary took the throne with... whoever she married... George V, right. (I know the queens because they wore the jewelry. No joke.) Anyway, when they took the throne, they decided to also be crowned in India, in Delhi.
There had been durbars, the Indian ceremony I think the British Empire cooked up on the spot, to officially take the "throne" of India which had definitely not existed before the Empire. (It had been a group of independent nations, not one.)
This is all speculation, I'm not saying otherwise. But it smells.
Right, so Christmas Day, Kate Windsor did the walk from Church that's traditional.
It's the last time anyone "public" has seen her.
There are rumors that an ambulance was seen leaving where she was staying, sometime in the next few days. Rumor. Entirely rumor.
January 17, so already not seen for twentyish days, the Palace announces Kate has gone into the hospital the day before, for "planned abdominal surgery". At that time everyone was told not to expect to see Kate until Easterish. (That's March 31.)
There were some questions about the liquid organdy dress - the dark blue, very shiny, full skirt, corset waist. And I mentioned that the next time I was on my computer (where the fashion images live) I'd post some more photos. #FashionWatch
Armani, 2021:
As I said before, it's made of some kind of high tech fiber, and silk. It's very short on details so I assume proprietary tech is involved.
Guo Pei, 2016.
I haven't done much digging, to see if it all tracks back to a single manufacturer, or a couple who've licensed from a tech company. But that's my first guess.
Today's #DesignerSeries choice is Suzanne Syz, a woman of beauty and humor who apparently doesn't want much data out on line about her, so we'll respect that. #JewelWatch
She's based in Switzerland.
She works with an art business model, mostly. Meaning she produces individual pieces that are one of a kind, and sold at those prices.
In some cases artists also have a manufactured line that they design for, we'll be seeing both.
This is the piece that got my attention.
She's famous? Notorious? For her rings. They are fabulous, and extremely varied.