McQueen, Oh How I Adore You

Earlier this week i wasn't that interested in the royal wedding, i though it was a lot of hype for something that i wasn't really interested in. However i was so interested in the dress that Catherine Middleton was to wear along with the fact i just finished mine for my final A-level piece. But for ages we've been guessing who was to design the royal wedding dress, to start with i thought it may be someone understated like Princess Diana's wedding dress designer Emanuel, but the more and more i thought about it i thought of British designers and did wonder about McQueen and Amanda Wakeley and then when i heard that Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen was seen going into Catherine's hotel i didn't quite believe it. 


At 7.40 this morning when i woke up this morning to go down to the coast, watching the news about the wedding i decided i wanted to be in London, but tough luck. Anyway half way across the solent i receive a text saying that it was Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen designing the wedding dress and that she looked stunning, Fuck was i annoyed that i wasn't anywhere near london or a TV. So theres me just after designing and making a wedding dress i started having a conversation with my mum on how i would have designed the wedding dress, this was before seeing the actual dress, mine was lace arms and bodice above the bust going into a sweetheart corset with the back coming up to the neck like a bolero, then a v neck into a corset type bodice which hugged the figure to the waist and then elegantly flowed into a reasonably long train. So when i finally got enough signal to get on the internet, i was googling to see Catherine in the wedding dress.. Wow when i saw it i was in ore she looked so beautiful and the dress did Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen and myself so proud. 


I was so excited by the fact that id come up with an image and design in my head and then i was partially correct although it came in more at the waist than i would have designed but today i have been in my element considering the fact that i've been pretty pissed off with the fact that i want to be in london so damn bad. The dress made my jaw drop and then later on during the evening when i found out that her evening reception dress is also by McQueen, I am in my element and Catherine's sisters dress was also amazing!

I find this dress absolutely stunning and was even more amazed by the dress when i found out that firstly it represents an opening flower with the lace having intricate designs of different flowers, along with the lace embroidery going up the skirt of the dress and secondly the fact that the dress has a large influence from Grace Kelly's wedding dress when she married Ranier III, Prince of Monaco and became Princess Grace of Monaco in 1956. The dress followed the influence of a lace appliqué bodice and sleeves along with a high waisted full skirt with a long train, even the accessories were similar with Catherine wearing a Cartier tiara borrowed from the Queen and the thin veil. This dress was definitely fit for a princess and i am so jealous. 

I think today i have watched the Royal Wedding over and over again and i am still not bored of it, a bit like the documentary McQueen and I, i adore Alexander McQueen and now Sarah Burton is creative director at McQueen after Alexander McQueen's suicide last year, i adore the fashion house even more and the wedding collections have never failed to amaze me. Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen will be known worldwide for an amazing creation that she designed with and for Catherine Middleton who had an exact idea of what she wanted.

It was truly outstanding.

Although i'm completely at loss with it, i adore the idea of love and i'm truly a sucker for love and romance. 

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