Queen makes surprise appearance at London fashion week

There are few people that can get the usually aloof fashion crowd giggling in a state of high excitement. But then there is only one Queen Elizabeth II.

Her Majesty was a surprise guest on Tuesday afternoon at Richard Quinn’s show, the last of London fashion week and his second ever. There was a hush as she entered the room, with the audience standing up to greet the monarch and, of course, raising their phones to get that all-important social media picture.

The Queen sat front row, of course – with a special cushion placed on her seat – beside Vogue’s editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, who in turn sat next to the monarch’s dressmaker, Angela Kelly.

Spurning this season’s front row trends such as trench coats and giant scarves, Her Majesty wore an ice-blue skirt suit, black handbag, black gloves and sensible shoes.

Although the 91-year-old monarch is hardly a regular at fashion week, she looked relaxed, placing her handbag on the floor like a “frow” pro.

She even shared a joke with Wintour, who wore her trademark sunglasses throughout the show.

When the audience stopped gawping at the actual Queen in their presence, there was Quinn’s collection to look at. It paid homage to his special guest, after a fashion. The British-born designer, who graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2016, is famous for outfits whose scarves cover models’ faces – à la Leigh Bowery in the 1980s – and that look was in evidence here. But the scarves were of the classic variety, the kind the Queen is known for wearing at Balmoral.

Source: theguardian