Former fashion editor turned royal style obsessive. Has spent two decades cataloguing every brooch, hemline, and color choice made by queens and princesses worldwide. Believes fashion is always political.
"A royal never gets dressed by accident."
After a three-year absence, the Princess of Wales returned to Royal Ascot in a dress she'd already worn twice before. Vivienne St. Claire on why that was deliberate.
In a single June week, Princess Leonor wore military fatigues, papal-protocol black, and a pastel blue statement dress. Here's what each one was saying.
She wore baby blue Catherine Walker, coordinated five family members in a single palette, and made a statement so quiet you had to know what to look for. Vivienne St. Claire was looking.
She has never wasted a Trooping the Colour appearance. With 13 June one week away, the clues to what the Princess of Wales will wear are already in plain sight.
When the Princess of Wales arrived at the 2026 BAFTAs in a lilac Gucci gown she first wore seven years ago, the fashion press called it elegant. Vivienne St. Claire calls it something far more deliberate than that.