source: mb.com.ph
LONDON (AFP) – Two billion viewers, 1,900 guests, four bridesmaids, and two cakes – but when Prince William and Kate Middleton marry on Friday, there can only be one dress.
All eyes will be on Kate’s wedding gown as she makes the long walk down the aisle at Westminster Abbey, as a symbol of her personality, her style, and crucially, what kind of queen she may one day become.
“It’s the dress that is going to receive the most instant and global attention ever,” said Edwina Ehrman, curator of a forthcoming exhibition on wedding gowns at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Palace officials have refused to divulge details of the dress to ensure the maximum impact when Kate steps out of the car – but also ensuring that expectations are impossibly high.
“This dress is so much more than a dress,” said Alexandra Shulman, the editor of the British edition of Vogue, in a recent article.
“Her dress is not simply her wedding dress but a big flag, symbolizing her taste, her commitment (or otherwise) to fashion, her attitude to money at a time when the country is in economic doldrums.”
From the moment she appears, Kate’s gown will become the subject of countless blogs and Tweets, while retailers will move quickly to get reproductions on the high streets and the image printed on souvenirs.
“We have to remember that this dress is going to be seen forever. She is our future queen,” said Caroline Castigliano, a British wedding dress designer.
The media have named several candidates to make the gown. Much attention has surrounded Sarah Burton, a British designer and creative director at Alexander McQueen, who was reportedly recommended to Kate by Shulman.
Other fashion editors have tipped Sophie Cranston, a relative unknown who worked for McQueen before setting up her own label, Libelula.
But in the absence of hard facts, experts are left to speculate on what kind of dress would suit Kate.
Britain braces for huge royal wedding rites
From campsites springing up in central London to wild parties being held in normally sleepy villages, Britain is braced for a flood of festivities to celebrate Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding, expected to be viewed by two billion people.
Hundreds of thousands of revelers, from Britain and abroad, are expected in London alone for the most important royal wedding since Prince Charles and Princess Diana married in 1981.
Susan Fleisher, 64, plans to head to The Mall, a road on the route of the wedding procession, from her north London home early on Friday to experience the celebrations and watch the Westminster Abbey ceremony on a big screen.
“I got up at 4 a.m. to watch the last wedding (of Charles and Diana) and I don’t want to miss the next generation,” she said.
“It is to share the joy of the moment because there is not enough joy in the world,” she added.
“It is amazing how much it is all on our minds even though we all have our own very busy lives.”
Fleisher, who is originally from the US but has lived for more than 20 years in Britain, attended Diana’s funeral in 1997 after her death in a Paris car crash and said she would be thinking of the late princess as William got married.
“As an older person, I think that Diana is very much in my consciousness,” she said.
source: mb.com.ph
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