Vogue’s Hamish Bowles Dashes to London for Hockney and Hartnell Inline

July 28, 2016

Photo: Hamish Bowles
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Outside London’s Royal Academy of Arts stands the 18th-century portraitist and first President of the Academy, Sir Joshua Reynolds, currently garlanded with flowers.
Photo: Courtesy of the Royal Collection Trust
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Queen Elizabeth II’s 1947 wedding dress by Norman Hartnell was inspired by Botticelli’s Primavera and featured garlands of embroidered pearl orange blossoms, jasmine, and White Rose of York.

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Hartnell’s sketch depicts the diaphanous train worn by the Queen at her Westminster Abbey wedding.
Photo: Courtesy of the Royal Collection Trust
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Hartnell’s tour-de-force coronation gown for the soon-to-be Queen Elizabeth II featured emblems of the Commonwealth rendered in 10,000 seed pearls and thousands of white crystal beads.
Photo: Courtesy of Sir Norman Hartnell
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The designer’s sketch for the resplendent gown in 1953.

Outside London’s Royal Academy of Arts stands the 18th-century portraitist and first President of the Academy, Sir Joshua Reynolds, currently garlanded with flowers.