Queen Silvia's Fashion and Style Part 1: November 2002 - December 2009

[pollyemma]

has any royal lady ever worn the same dress to more than one nobel?

[LaPlusBelle]

Originally Posted by Gabriella

It seems to me that she either gets it dead on, or dead wrong. I really like her dress from 2002, really pretty.

I agree. She seems to get the dresses in the last decade wrong and then right and alternates like that to the present day.

[Josefine]

if you are in stockholm you can see all the nobel dresses worn by silvia at the royal castle this becouse she has been sweden queen for 30 years now this summer and taken part in 28 nobel days

[elbeamer]

Does anyone have any good images of Queen Silvia wearing her black and white gown at the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony?

[Josefine]

elbeamer asked for photos of Silvias black and white dress i think you will find it in the beginning of this thread

[Sister Morphine]

1985, 1995 and 1997 are just..............no. Especially 1985. God, that dress is just tragic.

[Sister Morphine]

These are the worst of the worst of the worst.

Originally Posted by Josefine

Nobel 1983

Ummm, what? Ugly dress. The 80s were just a bad time to be dressing formally. That shiny red, flared out fabric makes you look like a walking fire hydrant.

Originally Posted by Josefine

Nobel 1985

Ugh. Bad Queen Silvia, bad. You look like a cupcake on top of more cupcakes. How many layers of crinoline underneath the dress are there? 600? It's flared out to Helsinki, for cryin' out loud.

Originally Posted by Josefine

Nobel 1990

Midnight blue velvet and my mom's lace tablecloth around your neck. What a winning combination. You get points for the sapphires......but that's it. The dress makes you look like a down-home school marm.

Originally Posted by Josefine

Nobel 1995

From the front, it's awesome. Then you turn around have that huge ugly pink bow stuck to the back.....almost like you have a huge wad of chewing gum stuck to your dress.

Originally Posted by Josefine

Nobel 1997

MY EYES!! MY POOR EYES!! I never thought my two favorite colors could actually look bad on a dress. Well, I guess I was wrong. Bad pattern....it's waaaaaaay too busy. Those poofy things at the shoulder? Ditch them.





All the other dresses were either really good or sort of bad, but not bad enough to make the Hall of Shame.

[Sophus]

DESIGNERS OF QUEEN SILVIA'S NOBEL DRESSES:

Maison Dior, Paris: 1976

Olga Persson, Stockholm: 1977,1978,1981

Elisabeth Wondrake, London: 1979

Jørgen Bender, Copenhagen: 1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1991,1992,2002

Ateljé Felicitas, Stockholm: 1990

Nina Ricci, Paris: 1993,1995,1997,2001

Jacques Zehnder, Paris: 1994,1996,1998,1999,2000,2003,2004,2005


Maison Dior had also designed Queen Silvia's weddingdress in 1976.

Jørgen Bender was for a lifetime the favorite designer of the danish royal family designing among many dresses the weddinggowns of Queen Margrethe II, princess Benedikte, princess Alexandra and princess Alexandra of Berleburg.

Elisabeth Wondrake is the favorite designer of princess Lillian, beeing one of her best friends.

[Larzen]

IMO most of Jørgen Benders gowns looks the same, one colored satin with big skirt and sparkly stuff, he used the same recipe for many of Princess Alexandras gowns as well. My favourite are the zebra dress fromNina Ricci (stunning and dramatic), the black and white one from 1994 by Zhender and the pale pink one from 1999, also by Zhender, they look like Nobel gowns are supposed to look. I can understand Felicitas from Stockholm only got one chance, it looked like she was wearing a left over costume from Gone with the wind with all that velvet and lace.

[RachelD]

In post #20...wow! She looks great in this style of dress, even the color looks great on her! She should wear this style of dress, not the puffy creations she tends to favor.

[amina1]

This is my favorit, I love it:w00t2:

[Sister Morphine]

Originally Posted by amina1

This is my favorit, I love it:w00t2:http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums...5&d=1119211026

That dress is very "fairy princess". I like it. It's miles better than those monstrosities she wore in the 80s/early 90s.

[Her_Majesty]

Her Noble-Gowns are amazing!
They are wonderful!
I prefer the 1999-dress! It's simply Fairy-Tale like!

[rop81]

Originally Posted by Madame Royale

My favourite would have to be '81' though where Silvia looked undeniably majestic.

The plunging neckline gives way to Silvia's ample bosom and beautifully proportioned décolletage. It superbly exhibits Silvia's neck to its full and gracious length and I very much like how you are unable to identify her waist. Very elegant and so beautiful.

Silvia was pregnant with Madeleine at that time so it was a maternity dress, a very beautiful one though

[Chabelita]

Is Very Interesting How Her Look Change, But Every Year Shelooks Amazing

[Olka]

Amazing pictures and Queen Silvia is a very, very beautiful woman...

[LadyK]

I love doing this (tehehe):

1977: Great tiara, dress pattern should remain safely in the seventies

1978: Lovely- the dress seems to perfectly match the sapphire necklace
and tiara, very elegant and flattering

1979: Very pretty

1982: Cinderella, Cinderella, Queen Silvia's Cinderella

1983: Tomato Soup with giant cans for sleeves

1984: a breath of fresh pretty air between two disasters

1985: One big giant swirl of butter with giant buttery swirls for arms

1986: Lovely gown, matches the Amethyst tiara she wore, reminds me a
little of one of the official portraits of Princess Alexandra of Denmark
taken when she was still married to Prince Joachim

1990: Is she pretending to be Queen Elizabeth I?

1993: Such fancy feathers for a jail bird

1994: Lovely

1995: "Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday
dear---oh wait, that's the Queen!

1997: Oops, do you think I should tell Her Majesty that we mixed up her
dress fabric with the new curtains?

2001: da Dum da dum, da Dum da dum, Do you take this dress in
matrimony? Queen Silvia: "I do!"

[Josefine]

i think there was a very long time since we saw silvia with a new sress. is there gala dresses that i have missed so please post them i would love to see dresses she wore in the begining

Originally Posted by swedishme

here you go... :)



(not fab quality though..thanx to imageshack silly size limit...)

when seeing this i wonder if anyone bought the catalog about her nobel dresses as they are shown at the royal palace this year

1990 was it just after her mom died?
is it true that she has never worn a new dress for the nobel
if so i have no ide what dress she can were to the nobel 2006

[galuhcandrakirana]

Nice to see Sylvia's pictures in those "big tiara", parure and gala gown. So far she is the only queen with commoner background who wears one of the most beautiful tiara collection in the world. Sonya of Norway doesn't wear many of big tiara since Norway RF doesn't have collection as many as Swedish RF. Her appearance on the photos above, Sylvia looks like a queen in fairy tale story in children books. I can not wait to see her appearance in the next nobel prize event

[Boris]

At the 1990 Nobel, Queen Silvia was indeed still in mourning, tough for her father who had died shortly before, not her mother who died from Alzheimer's disease a few years later, if I'm correct.
So the circumstances have to be taken into consideration when reviewing her choice of that that rather heavy & sombre dark blue velvet gown (which she had worn before but without the white lace collar).
My prediction for the Nobel 2006 gown is the silver embroidered one she wore for the state visit in Thailand. She really hasn't worn many new gala dresses for years on end, so this is about the only one left!