Her Majesty the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations

Despite the typical British weather everyone came out to see the Royals in action and overall the event was a resounding success! Rumour has it the Palace responded immediately by commenting it was the best jubilee event yet!

Waiting for the arrival

Her Majesty

The Duke in The Design Cycle pod

Photos above Dave Piper

FashionCapital Director, Jenny Holloway, escorted the Queen around the various fashion displays, meeting designers and the team. Meanwhile, JoJo, the British Designers manageress, met the Duke of Edinburgh in the Design Cycle pod which displayed the various stages of production from sketch idea to finished product. The Duke chatted and joked to the team and Desiree did a great job explaining the process to him! It was also fantastic to see so many of our inspiring designers in one place: Bora Aksu, Jean-Pierre Braganza, Jeff Banks, John Rocha, PPQ, Hemyca, Alice Palmer and the list goes on.

Her Majesty at the Heritage Display with leading LFW designers

Take a look at just a few of the messages received so far from participants:

‘Just wanted to drop you a quick note to thank you for the fabulous day yesterday – it was such an honour to be with Alice as she met the Queen and also be introduced – it was such a fabulous day.

I also wanted to pass on my congratulations as you produced the most fantastic day and experience for the designers – I hope that you got chance to really enjoy it too’ Alison Lowe, Managing Director Felicities

‘Thank you very much for inviting Vauxhall City Farm to have a stand at today’s event. The team really enjoyed it and apparently the Queen actually shook Rob’s hand! He was holding a chicken at the time! Lots of people visited the stand after the Queen so I’m sure our profile in that part of London has risen enormously.’  Nigel Rust

‘I just wanted to say a huge Thank You for including us for the Queen’s Visit. Jane said it was a great honour to be there and actually meet The Royal Couple!!’ Goat

‘Well the day seemed to go very smoothly, so thank you for making it all so effortless!!’ Pearce Fionda

‘I hope you can all manage a night off. I am raising my glass to you all for your efforts. It was such a lovely day and an experience I will never forget. Just to be in a room with such talent was an honour. Thank you all and congratulations.’ Nicola Woods by Beautiful Soul

The Evening Standard also reported that day on the visit, even including a description of the vintage garments loaned from C20 Vintage Fashion for the heritage display and a quote from Mark Butterfield himself:

 

Jenny Holloway, Director was also interviewed live on BBC London radio. To listen to the interview follow the link below and fast forward to 1.20.58 – 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00rm3m5

A huge thank you to everyone who took part and supported the event! Watch this space for the official photographs, further press and testimonials from the designers!