I design to flatter the body,” says Oldfield, who has designed neatly-tailored formal suits and some splendid dresses for Camilla, over the years, starting with the super chic A-line, long-sleeved, powder blue gown she wore to attend King Willem-Alexander’s investiture ceremony in The Netherlands in 2013. Of Camilla’s gown he says “I think she wanted what everyone wants in a dress, that is allure… I design in quite a classical way. Oldfield certainly knows a thing or two about old school glamour, not to mention how to make women look stunning.
Well done… What a magnificent career capper’.” Magnificent indeed. There has not been time yet to read the deluge of messages that are pinging into his phone, although he does share one he received from Tina Brown, former Vanity Fair editor and author of The Palace Papers: “She said, ‘You know I’m so proud of you. He is chatting to me at Browns Hotel, where he has been enjoying a post-coronation celebratory lunch. “Who would have thought that this little brown boy would end up designing the next Queen’s Coronation gown?” says the British couturier, who is looking exceedingly dapper when I meet him following Saturday’s ceremony in his trusty Edward Sexton suit (despite having endured a downpour on his walk over from Westminster Abbey). “I wish I’d been in the front row because we’d spent so much time on the fit and the way the thing reacted with the body, and what she had to do – she had to kneel and do a curtsy to the King – I probably knew more about how the dress was going to work and how it was going to behave than the Queen, because she has never done that before, and I have made a lot of wedding dresses!”īut this particular dress is clearly a source of great pride.
“It is rather historic, isn’t it? And she looked lovely,” reflects designer Bruce Oldfield on how it felt to attend the Coronation and watch Queen Camilla being crowned in Westminster Abbey, before a global audience of billions, wearing the sleekly elegant coronation dress he designed: an ivory, Peau de Soie silk, floor-length gown that flattered her figure to perfection, embellished with swathes of shimmering silver and gold embroideries of delicate wildflowers from hedgerows.
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