Remembering Norman Hartnell, The Fashion Designer Behind Princess Beatrice’s Vintage Wedding Dress

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Remembering Norman Hartnell, The Fashion Designer Behind Princess Beatrice’s Vintage Wedding Dress
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See two new images from Princess Beatrice's wedding, with a closer look at her vintage wedding dress.

It was while studying Modern Languages at Cambridge that he began making costumes for Footlights productions, working alongside Cecil Beaton – until thepublished a fateful review of his work. “Is the dress genius of the future now at Cambridge?” wrote journalist Minnie Hogg. “The frocks ingiven by the Footlights Dramatic Club yesterday set me thinking as to whether Mr N B Hartnell wasn’t contemplating conquering feminine London with original gowns.

By the mid-1930s, Hartnell’s frothy creations had grown so popular that he relocated from his studio to a Mayfair townhouse on Bruton Street – and his relationship with the royal family began in earnest. In 1935, Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott asked the young creative to make not only her wedding gown for her marriage to the Duke of Gloucester, but also her bridesmaids’ outfits. Included in her wedding party? Both Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret.

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