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Catherine, The Duchess of Cambridge, or her handlers forgot to check the black dress for camera flashes. The dress per se look cheap.
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Catherine, The Duchess of Cambridge, or her handlers forgot to check the black dress for camera flashes. The dress per se look cheap.
I am sure you are right about the quality. However, a pointelle dress is very difficult to pull off and often does not photograph well.
Catherine, The Duchess of Cambridge, or her handlers forgot to check the black dress for camera flashes. The dress per se look cheap.
It's an early Halloween - she looks like the cat burglar.
With all due respect, but it would be fair to assume that professional stylists can predict how a certain dress or ensemble will look on photos. If we are to believe some Internet gossips, Hollywood actresses and their stylists check their red carpet ensembles (dresses and makeup) by taking several photos with a really brightest/strongest flash. Apparently it can be done.I am not sure how one could check for camera flashes unless one is prepared to accept that the whole idea in practice would be preposterous!
A test such as this would not have the same results in any other lighting conditions other than those to which the clothing would be subject on the night it was to be worn by Catherine. A single flash on someone's phone camera inside a gloomy cupboard at Kensington palace would render the results inconclusive and be a far cry from dozens of media photographers all flashing their nikons at the same time repeatedly.
A few weeks before the event, a group of at least 12 palace staff would have to go out in the dead of night, one wearing the garment, the others (who would all have to be proficient in photography) all holding high quality cameras, media-strength flashes and zoom lenses to test whether or not items secreted underneath the garment can be seen.
With all due respect, but it would be fair to assume that professional stylists can predict how a certain dress or ensemble will look on photos.
With all due respect, but it would be fair to assume that professional stylists can predict how a certain dress or ensemble will look on photos. If we are to believe some Internet gossips, Hollywood actresses and their stylists check their red carpet ensembles (dresses and makeup) by taking several photos with a really brightest/strongest flash. Apparently it can be done.
I am not sure how one could check for camera flashes unless one is prepared to accept that the whole idea in practice would be preposterous!
A test such as this would not have the same results in any other lighting conditions other than those to which the clothing would be subject on the night it was to be worn by Catherine. A single flash on someone's phone camera inside a gloomy cupboard at Kensington palace would render the results inconclusive and be a far cry from dozens of media photographers all flashing their nikons at the same time repeatedly.
A few weeks before the event, a group of at least 12 palace staff would have to go out in the dead of night, one wearing the garment, the others (who would all have to be proficient in photography) all holding high quality cameras, media-strength flashes and zoom lenses to test whether or not items secreted underneath the garment can be seen.
With all due respect, but it would be fair to assume that professional stylists can predict how a certain dress or ensemble will look on photos. If we are to believe some Internet gossips, Hollywood actresses and their stylists check their red carpet ensembles (dresses and makeup) by taking several photos with a really brightest/strongest flash. Apparently it can be done.
Well yes dear, having carried out the experiment I suggested above!
In all seriousness though, it depends on whether professional stylists even know that a possible problem exists and to what length they will go to check how a dress or ensemble will look in photos.
Someone above kindly posted pictures of Cathernine's dress on a mannequin and a model and they show no obvious problem.
At the end of the day, the proof will be whether Catherine wears the dress again - if she doesn't we could assume it might be because of the flash photography. If she does wear it again, then the problem would appear to be in the eye of the beholder.
Perhaps when purchasing an outfit with an unusual material, someone at the palace should go on the internet and look for similar dresses worn by people standing in front of flashing photographers to see how the dress looks.
She's a beautiful girl and herself always looks very nice....however even without the 'flash issue' the dress is just awful. The design is horrid. The pattern of the dress does nothing for her. I don't see what's so edgy about it either...it's a black dress with 'cut outs'...it has been done by various celebs starting years ago.
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Yes, I give preference to professional advice. I also understand that the British courtiers are not as efficient and professional as the IHA (the Imperial Household Agency). So I do not expect much from them.... You ascribe too much omniscience to 'professional stylists". This reminds me of debates in science when one party believes that science will/must have the answer to all things. Stylists are concerned with far more global issues when it comes to a dress, than the split seconds of flashbulbs going off, though the flashbulbs for sure factor in if it is known they will be present for significant moments or for a significant length of time. ...
Yes, I give preference to professional advice. I also understand that the British courtiers are not as efficient and professional as the IHA (the Imperial Household Agency). So I do not expect much from them.
One might assume that Catherine, The Duchess of Cambridge, is not into fashion and makeup. With the public and mass media with HD lenses watching her every move, it would be shrewd to better chose ensembles.