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Kate Middleton’s stunning wedding dress will go down in history as an all-timeiconic fashion moment. Yet the iconic gown that she wore 10 years ago today didn’t simply fall together overnight.
“Kate had her final fitting at (Alexander McQueen designer) Sarah Burton’s salon early in the morning the day before her wedding,” embroidererChloe Savagerecalls in this week’s issue of PEOPLE about Kate’s2011 royal weddingtoPrince William.
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“We were all sitting around the studio at about nine o’clock waiting for the dress to come back with any final adjustments,” Chloe continues. “We hadn’t finalized the lace down the seams yet. We had most of it on the dress but had left the lace loose in the seam to accommodate for that final fitting.”
Thankfully for Chloe and the other members of the 50-strong team that secretly toiled away for months ahead of the wedding, Kate’s Chantilly lace dress needed very few last-minute alterations. The end result was show-stopping.
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“She didn’t know what I’d been up to for months and was quite excited when I told her that mummy had dressed a princess,” says Chloe. What followed was a day filled with joy, excitement – and a huge amount of relief!
“Our involvement was more during the months before the actual wedding,” says Chloe, who quietly worked on the dress in the seclusion of historic Hampton Court Palace, using rooms that were later found to be standing on the foundations of Anne Boleyn’s private apartments.
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“When we were making the dress, we had to keep everything a total secret,” Chloe adds. “But I have to confess that I might have texted a few mates during the ceremony to say ‘By the way…!”
source: people.com
