A white cloud that exuded Italian know-how mixed with English tradition. Lady Kitty Spencer left everyone breathless when she appeared escorted by the brothers Louis, viscount of Althorp, and Samuel Aitken at the entrance of Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati to marry on Saturday 24 July with the fashion magnate Michael Lewis.
The wait for the signed dress Dolce & Gabbana was spasmodic: Princess Diana’s granddaughter is global ambassador of the brand and it was easy to understand that the designers would have put all their talent to pay homage to a friend now considered to be at home for the most important day of her life.
The dress gave the aristocratic blonde the solemnity of an old-time bride also for the Victorian inspiration declared on the brand’s social channels. Given yesterday’s heat in Frascati (the guests on Instagram showed up with fans), the dress will also have represented a great challenge for Lady Kitty.
Made in six months with multiple craftsmanship in the field, the lace dress with an intricate floral design from the full skirt and bodice featured a deep button placket that went from the feet to the high neck. The sleeves were puffed and very long while the long veil was enriched with a flounce on the front that contributed to making the ensemble created between the Dolce & Gabbana embroidery factory and their atelier in Milan even more ethereal. Stefano Dolce and Domenico Gabbana, joined by Tatler, they said that the dress is «a dream made of fabrics». Kitty only needed four tests to reach the goal. «They were beautiful and exciting moments» confessed the two who also made four other princely dresses for the occasion.
Between royal watchers, disappointed not to have seen on Kitty’s head the Spencer Tiara, the family tiara worn exactly 40 years by Diana for her wedding, there are those who see in this design a link with the dress worn by her mother Victoria on her wedding day to Charles Spencer in 1989 while still others see a quote from the dress of Grace Kelly.
Thirty-year-old Lady Kitty Spencer in the second half of February this year was invested with the title of Global Ambassador of Dolce & Gabbana. “We are happy to welcome Kitty into our big family” the two designers said on that occasion “her charisma and her radiant being struck us right from the start: seeing her wearing our clothes and interpreting them with her style always excites us Very”.
For your part, you consider Domenico and Stefano much more than your reference designers. “When I wear their clothes I sense their passion and they make me feel the best version of myself,” Princess Diana’s granddaughter said at the time. Words that, if it were not about clothes, could have made fashion mogul Michaeal Lewis jealous, 31 years older than the bride but also a luster older than his father Charles Spencer of which there is no trace in the testimonies we have as well as apparently absent were both Cambridges and Sussexes, leaving us orphaned of the outfits of the wives of the cousins of the new lady Lewis, Kate and Meghan.
Kitty but also the sisters Eliza and Amelia made their first sensational appearance worldwide in 2011 at the wedding of William and Kate but the fame of the eldest daughter of Charles Spencer and Victoria Lockwood was established in 2018 at wedding of Harry and Meghan, dressed that time, needless to say, Dolce & Gabbana with whom he had begun to collaborate the previous year. That hand-painted emerald green dress catapulted her into the Olympus of celebrities to keep an eye on: her Instagram shot from 37 thousand followers to half a million and Bulgari called her to make her the testimonial to which to tie the jewels of the precious brand.
The link with Italy is visceral and it is not just a matter of fashion. Kitty Spencer, who grew up in South Africa like her husband, studied psychology, politics and English literature at the University of Cape Town. Once she graduated, she moved to Florence, her favorite city in the world, to study art history and Italian. Strengthened by that experience, she returned to the United Kingdom where she was born to enroll in a master’s degree in luxury brand management at the European Business School of Regent’s University in London in 2015. The aristocrat therefore is much more than a model, it-girl or the passive face of a brand but she knows very well both the DNA of the brands she works with and the strategic and economic functioning.
The Italian maison was the absolute protagonist of this union, signing both the Florentine bachelorette party dresses and those worn at the celebrations that lasted an entire weekend. Dolce & Gabbana didn’t just dress Lady Kitty Spencer but also several guests who swirled the dresses on their Instagram profiles showing them in all their splendor. Between these Emma Weymouth, the Viscountess of Bath in red, the socialite e dj Marjorie gubelmann with a floral dress, and the chicchissima madre di Elon Musk, Maye, with a white flounced dress with polka dots and black details, with a bag from the label (even the designer Jade Holland Cooper had one) and Bulgari earrings.
Filed a Spencer, there are two others that could soon give us fashion emotions. Even on Amelia and Eliza, Diana’s twenty-nine grandchildren, the spotlight of Italian fashion is turning on. The twins in fact would have begun to collaborate with Philosophy by Lorenzo Serafini. Both recently moved to London from South Africa and were hired by the same modeling agency as their older sister. If for Eliza there are no orange blossoms on the horizon, for Amelia the news already records a marriage proposal by her boyfriend Greg Mallett in August last year. There is no date yet but there is already talk of a special location: the Althorp residence, the one in which all the Spencers grew up, is the favorite candidate. A way to have Diana next to whom these girls of good British society owe so much: the sense of style is all of the aunt. It’s a fact.
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