The one-step style trick to dazzle like film stars and royals
A revival of an old failsafe is reigniting joie de vivre in the way we dress - and it s easy to master
10 June 2021 • 5:00am
Cher with her Best Actress Oscar for Moonstruck
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Although Princess Beatrice s jewelled wedding dress last year was subdued in the bling states compared with the emerald-and-pearl-encrusted gowns of her distant antecedent Queen Elizabeth I, it seems to have sparked a revival in the genre.
This wasn t any old jewelled dress. Created by Norman Hartnell, it belonged to the bride s grandmother, one Queen Elizabeth II, who had worn it to the premiere of Lawrence of Arabia in 1962.