![]() ![]() Weddings have become a mainstay of his business since Elizabeth II gave him his first boost. The finale however, brought back the lace veil in a hopeful way: a bride, in white, with a huge spray of flowers. The black put it in the shade, in a good way. All the young minds and hands at Richard Quinn had been devoted to proving they were equal to showing up for an historic moment. Understandable if that part didn’t have the chance, or the atelier-power to fully make its point. Then came renderings of multi-colored bulbous-topped bodysuits, his signature floral coats, feathered polka-dot embroideries, a pair of short bejeweled capes. ![]() There were CCTV cameras bristling from the central ‘chandelier.’ The Queen video screens switched to live footage of the audience. That had been intended by Quinn to be spun around a concept about public surveillance. This show included not just Off-White’s fall 2022 ready-to-wear collection, but also a new high fashion line (haute couture without the haute. Under one, a tiny black crown was visible.Īnd then, well, it was on with part two: the show that should have been. The spaceship metaphor worked in more ways than one. All the model’s faces were either completely obscured in floor length lace veils, or masked in point d’esprit netting. He pulled out all the stops on multiple silhouettes for that section: black swing coats, his translations of fitted 1950s formal dresses, vast capes in lurex, a velvet tunic dress with a big glittering jeweled brooch. So, in that way, it was breaking that barrier, wanting to mourn the real her.” There’s even a bit where she's in the carriage at the Coronation, and she doesn’t know she’s being filmed, is having a laugh and joke with Prince Philip, and suddenly she’s poised again. “What you saw there was her with her corgis, interacting with animals and nature.
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