Report: Kate Middleton Wedding Dress Designer Chosen
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Kate Middleton's wedding dress designer is Alexander McQueen creative director, Sarah Burton, according to reports in British newspapers.
While McQueen officials are issuing denials -- which they would be obliged to do, even if it were true -- sources told the UK's
Telegraph that Burton has been chosen for her discretion, talent and quirky, feminine take on elegance.
The 36-year-old was promoted to the top design job after McQueen himself
committed suicide last year. First Lady Michelle Obama
caused a stir when she wore one of Burton's McQueen designs to a State Dinner for Chinese president Hu Jintao in January.
London's Sunday Times is also reporting McQueen's CEO Jonathan Akeroyd gushed to a colleague that the fashion house had won the coveted commission for Middleton's April 29 wedding to longtime love,
Prince William.
Burton's work first caught the royal bride-to-be's eye in 2005 when she created an off-the-shoulder wedding dress for Sara Buys, a fashion journalist married to Tom Parker-Bowles, the son of her future stepmother-in-law, the Duchess of Cornwall, according to the Telegraph.
Burton denied the reports regarding her involvement to
Vogue UK: "I'm not doing it." Akeroyd also denied the rumors, saying: "No, not at all. I'm the CEO, I would know if we were doing it."
The commission has also been rumored to belong to Bruce Oldfield, a favorite of the late Princess Diana and designer of Queen Rania of Jordan's wedding dress.
Even if the latest rumors are true, Burton and company wouldn't want to have the exalted McQueen name stepping on a future queen's well-shod toes.
The designers of Princess Diana's 1981 wedding dress, David and Elizabeth Emanuel, repeatedly denied their role as royal couturier.
Middleton has made it clear her dress designer is to remain a closely guarded state secret until her wedding day, so she can surprise her fiancé as she walks down the long, dramatic Westminster Abbey aisle.
Last week, St. James Palace announced the highly anticipated dress details would be released first on its own website,
The Royal Wedding.
Daily Telegraph Fashion Editor Hilary Alexander told London's
Daily Mail if the Burton/McQueen news is true, it's a welcome relief for fashion: "It's desperately in need of an injection of fabulousness in the wake of the whole
John Galliano scandal."
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I thought she was getting her dress at Costco.
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Who gives a Rusty F**K
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I hope it is not god awful huge like Dianas, Kate is pretty, i hope it is at least flattering, the queen mum probably wants her in a sack with a 50 foot train!
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I don't consider myself a "royal watcher" but Kate's so lovely. I think she'll have something rather simple and elegant.
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Well, just read an article which stated the wedding would definitely be watched by aliens aboard a UFO, as it said aliens always were hovering above watching any important event. So why not don your aluminum hat and ask them? I'm sure they'll know.
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She certainly is beautiful. In this photo I believe she bears a striking resemblance to a young Delta Burke, anyone else agree?