The Queen made a surprise appearance at London Fashion Week today, sitting on the front row at the Richard Quinn show. She was in attendance to present the inaugural Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design to the young designer.
Sitting between the chief executive of the British Fashion Council, Caroline Rush, and American Vogue editor Anna Wintour, she wore a duck egg blue skirt suit by personal stylist Angela Kelly and carried one of her signature bags. It was a first for the monarch, who hasn’t been seen at a London Fashion Week show before. Her late sister, Princess Margaret, attended Dior’s couture show at Blenheim Palace in 1954.
London born designer Richard Quinn established his eponymous label in 2016, having graduated from the esteemed Fashion MA course at Central Saint Martins.
It comes just a day after the Duchess of Cambridge and Countess of Wessex launched the Commonwealth Fashion Exchange with a soiree at Buckingham Palace. The initiative hopes to use fashion as a common language to change the way that people view the modern commonwealth today.