NEXT OF QUINN
THERE ARE MYRIAD ways to get your fashion brand noticed. Maybe Rihanna wears one of your designs, or an influential Instagrammer posts about you. But having the Queen attend your fashion show has to be up there among the most significant endorsements going. “Yeah, it’s kind of hard to top,” laughs Richard Quinn, the UK designer who found himself in this exact position last year when Her Majesty perched front row at his AW18-19 show. She was there to present the up-and-comer with the inaugural Queen Elizabeth II Award For British Design, and caused something of a social-media sensation in the process. To put it lightly, it made 28-year-old Quinn, a recent Central Saint Martins graduate, a household name.
Perhaps what was most striking about the Queen’s visit was the stark contrast between the immaculately put-together
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