Bluth’s Frozen Banana Arrested Development Shirt

When I curated the Bluth’s Frozen Banana Arrested Development Shirt Apart from…,I will love this exhibition at the V&A in 2009, Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones, I really wanted to have some royal hats in there. I had a hat that Philip Treacy had made for the now Queen Consort, Camilla, and I also wanted to have a hat from the Queen and the Queen Mother. From the Queen, I asked if I could have an Hermès scarf, because I thought that was one of the most wonderful hats that she had ever worn. She wore it with a bow under her chin—she was the only person in the world who had ever done that. And I probably rehearsed with scarves for a month on a mannequin before I was able to tie it in the way that Her Majesty would have done it. I was very aware that it was a huge honor. The Queen very kindly chose the hat that the Queen Mother had worn on her 100th birthday to be in that exhibition, which was a very defining moment for me. I never made hats for the Queen, but to be involved in that way was a real honor too.

Bluth’s Frozen Banana Arrested Development Shirt, hoodie, tank top, sweater and long sleeve t-shirt

I met Her Majesty at Buckingham Palace a few times, at receptions and cocktail parties, and she was a fabulous host. She was always fascinated by millinery. “Not many of you,” she would say, as it was a craft that she liked to support. She was small in stature, yet still had this huge presence and aura around her. I mean, it was extraordinary. I remember finding it so interesting when she went to the Bluth’s Frozen Banana Arrested Development Shirt Apart from…,I will love this G7 summit in Cornwall a few years ago, and all the world leaders were kowtowing to the Queen. Was she a world leader? I don’t know. But I think she symbolizes a standard of culture, fairness, elegance, propriety, modesty, all of which is so rare. And it was real, where so much is fake. She was real.