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LONDON, ENGLAND – APRIL 29: HRH Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge exits following her marriage to HRH Prince William, Duke of Cambridge at Westminster Abbey on April 29, 2011 in London, England. (Photo by Chris Jackson\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Australian podcast hosts Isabelle Truman and Grace O\u2019Neill of After Work Drinks<\/em> <\/a>have spoken with Alexandra Shulman,<\/a> the longest serving editor-in-chief of British Vogue<\/em> in their latest episode. In it, the magazine editor reveals she helped Kate Middleton arrive at her Alexander McQueen wedding dress.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Catherine Middleton, as she was known then, got engaged to Prince William, everyone was talking about what she was going to wear and what the wedding dress was going to be,\u201d Shulman told Truman and O\u2019Neill. \u201cOne day I got a phone call from somebody in her office asking if I would be prepared to just come in and have an informal chat about options. So, of course, I jumped at the opportunity as you can imagine. \u2018No I think I\u2019ll wash my hair that day\u2019 [laughs].\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI put together pictures of different designers that I thought might be good and got myself acquainted a bit with the bridal market because actually, it wasn\u2019t something I really knew that much about,\u201d she continued. \u201cI toddled along and met Catherine and I think she was very keen to get opinions, to canvas options, and learn a bit. She\u2019s not someone who is particularly fascinated by the minutiae of the fashion industry. I think wearing fashion and labels is something she does as part of her job, but it\u2019s not something she would probably spend a lot of time doing if she was in another life, so she didn\u2019t probably know the work of some of the designers that I had suggested.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Photo by Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Shulman offerings included Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, Erdem and Bruce Oldfield. \u201cAs we were doing it, I realized the obvious choice was Alexander McQueen because as a house, their craftsmanship is incredible and you would want to show British craftsmanship off in terms of the embroidery and the lace,\u201d explains Shulman. \u201cPlus McQueen has always used symbolism within his work – he\u2019d always used a lot of references in it. So I thought that as a brand, it fitted.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Photo by CARL DE SOUZA\/AFP via Getty Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sadly, McQueen passed away the year prior and Sarah Burton had taken over. \u201cI thought, [Burton] is a very unassuming, very clever, very sensitive woman and I thought that she would be somebody that would be very easy for Catherine to work with, because they were obviously going to spend a lot of time together. So I explained all those things and they thanked me for my advice and off I went and that was the last thing I heard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThen I got an invitation to the wedding and that was so exciting,\u201d says Schulman. \u201cBut I didn\u2019t know that she was going to wear McQueen until I was in the abbey.\u201d She got a text from a colleague saying, \u2018It\u2019s McQueen!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Schulman is currently promoting her fourth book, Clothes\u2026and Other Things that Matter<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0To listen to the episode in its entirety, download the After Work Drinks<\/em> podcast here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":1012,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,16],"yoast_head":"\nThe Unknown Story Of How Kate Middleton Picked Her Wedding Dress to Prince William - Grazia USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/unknown-story-kate-middleton-wedding-dress\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Unknown Story Of How Kate Middleton Picked Her Wedding Dress to Prince William\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Australian podcast hosts Isabelle Truman and Grace O\u2019Neill of After Work Drinks have spoken with Alexandra Shulman, the longest serving editor-in-chief of British Vogue in their latest episode. 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