Zarzuela's unknown treasure: Queen Sofia and her impressive Valentino Alta Sewing closet, exposed (from the 70s to today)

  • By:karen-millen

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12/2022

FASHUNAn thorough analysis of the public appearances of Queen Sofia in the last fifty years reveals a spectacular repertoire of Italian designs worthy of a large fashion collector.

By César Andrés Baciero

Queen Sofia married King Juan Carlos on May 14, 1962.The then princess wore the same embroidery veil who had covered her mother's hair on her wedding day with King Pablo in 1936.He was held by the Prussian Tiara, also a gift from Federica Hannover, that 42 years later Letizia Ortiz chose as an ornament on the day of her nuptials with Felipe de Borbón.It was the first time we saw her with a.The daughter of the kings of Greece premiered Jean Deseses's dress, the Alexandrian fisher of the family based in Paris.Today you can see this piece of silver lame covered with tulLorenzo Caprile de la Infanta Cristina.At the orders of this design star, Valentino Garavani worked in the fifties.A review of her wardrobe reveals the dozens of occasions in which the Emeritous Queen of Spain has dressed haute couture pieces created by the Italian.From gala dresses to skirt and jacket sets, Doña Sofía made Valentino her most faithful dressmaker.

The examples date back to the seventies, although it is difficult to rule out that his idyll with the Italian began before.Previously to become a consort, in 1973, he premiered a gray halter neck dress adorned with a large flower in the neck, the same with which he would appear shortly after on the cover of Paris Match magazine.With the fingers of one hand we can count the times we have seen the shoulders of the Helena.

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El tesoro desconocido de Zarzuela: la reina Sofía y su impresionante armario de Valentino Alta Costura, al descubierto (de los años 70 hasta hoy)

In 1977 Juan Carlos and Sofia were received at Gymnich Castle by the president of Germany Walter Scheel.His newly released Majesty opted for a blouse embroidered with roses and a spring haughty green skirt of Garavani made the same year.

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In March 1980 the Kings visited Denmark invited by Sovereign Margarita and Prince Enrique.Sofia wore a Valentino spring/white summer, very representative of the time, lace and plumeti manga with fly skirt, the mellerio tiara of the infant Isabel 'La Chata' and vision stole - Sofia Sofia, a railway ecologist, now hates the skins-.

In April 1981, Princess Grace, as president of the Monegasca subsidiary, met with the Spanish Red Cross delegation, was then received by the Queen in Zarzuela accompanied by a preteen Felipe and dressed in a gray spot and skirtLombardia matching degraded.

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One of her favorite pieces of this designer is formed by a silver rhinestone body and Pink Schiaparelli bullshit skirt that belongs to the 1984 Summer Haute Couture Collection of 1984.He premiered it in October of that same year for the gala dinner offered in honor of the president of Greece, Costantinos Karamanlis.The one in which they say that he tried to justify the decision to prevent his brother ConstantineSpain, not with a princess of Greece ".This outfit also used it for the official portraits fired by Alberto Schommer in the outdated audience hall of his informal residence.

Valentino is the blue -inspired blue dress - which shares with Farah Diba (recovered it for the 45th anniversary party of the teacher in the fashion world) - with which Reginald Davis, lover of the cut prints, immortalized DoñaSofia with Don Juan Carlos in the seventies.

For the last ones who posed as a queen in exercise, the work of Dany Virgili in 2007, he also chose a Valentino.A vibrant eggplant, with a pouring at the waist from which a waterfall of crystals is born in tune, to which the emeritus incorporated sleeves and back to convert the word neckline into a square that finished off with two twin brooches he inherited from Queen Federica.On the head the Tiara Cartier and in its real dolls the twin bracelets of the Queen Ena de Battenberg.For an encounter with Mohamed VI of Morocco in 2000, Sofia chose the same piece and combined it with the until then missing black pearls collar of Queen María Cristina.The outfit belongs to the Autumn/Winter 2000 sample and the Alhaja was acquired at auction in Geneva a year earlier.It is unknown who bought it and how it ended in the Spanish jeweler.

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The pink and silver duo used it again in 1985 during the agape organized at the Royal Palace of Madrid in honor of Queen Beatriz de Holland.A year later he recycled him for dinner at the Embassy of Spain in London that served as a farewell to the official visit of the Kings to Great Britain.Infantas Elena and Cristina and Princess Irene de Greece appeared by surprise.For dinner at Windsor the previous night Sofia chose another Valentino in Albo with embroidery in Paisley de Rórería Azul and great loop (expendable) in the navel.

When Queen Elizabeth II visited Spain in 1988, Sofia premiered an jet piece (to which she had incorporated cape sleeves) and white tail with black moles from the spring haughty collection of the nickname as an emperor of fashion.This model was cloned by Isabel Pantoja for reappearance in Madrid in 2017 after passing through the Alcalá de Guadaira prison.On this occasion, as in almost all in which Lilibeth has met, the queen played with the Tiara Flor de Lis that Alfonso XIII gave Queen Victoria Eugenia on the occasion of her sponsorship injured on May 31, 1906.

With embroidered flora, in this case Rosas instead of lis flowers, it was the 1983 red sequin dress that the queen chose to celebrate the golden weddings of her in -laws of Barcelona on October 12, 1985.

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For the dinner before the Infanta Elena link with Jaime de Marichalar, organized at the Villamanrique Palace, Queen Sofía combined her Valentino, of the winter season 1989, green and blue with double skirt and fantasy in the ribs with a dressing ofEsmeraldas.

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A structure similar to the one he dressed, also from Garavani, that same 1995 in an encounter with the kings of Norway, Harald and Sonia, in Madrid.

For the orthodox ceremony that united, for now, to his nephew Pablo Schleswid-Holstein-Sanderburg-Glüksburg (the queen is named like this, not Greece) with the American billionaire Marie-Chantal Miller on July 1 also chose a Valentino.There Valentino went to the pointedman - including Infanta Cristina -.Sofia opted for a pink jacket suit with rhombuses and a floral brooch of little value that had belonged to her mother.

Five years earlier, a knee dress had also released with 3D flowers blank with yellow and fajín details in the Mallorcan link of his political niece Simoneta Gómez-Acebo and José Miguel Fernández Sastrón.The bride was very elegant with a Ferré Gianfranco for Dior and La Tiara La Russa who then belonged to her grandmother María de las Mercedes de Borbón and today is owned by Don Juan Carlos.

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On July 19, 1998, the then Kings wanted to accompany former President Adolfo Suárez at the wedding of his son Adolfo with Isabel Flores that was held in Villahermosa.Felipe VI's mother wore a black gauze dress with ranging ranging ranges in raw.On the neckline they caught some inappropriate pearls that we have never seen again.

The mourning dress with a word of honor and dotted with feathers that Infanta Elena walked through London on the night prior to the link of her cousin Alexia of Greece just a year later is from this same collection seam spring/summer 1998.

In 2002, European royalty met around its dean, also in the favorite castle of the honoree, to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the arrival of its funny Majesty to the British throne.Sofia wore a nívea siren cut skirt of the 1999 spring sewing collection with black and embroidered flowof which the false pearl pilgrim hung.

To this same collection of Garavani belongs the draped red dress with rhinestones at the waist - lucid by Naomi Campbell on the catwalk - and to which the queen, once again, incorporated French sleeves.He has presumed him countless occasions, such as the night he delivered in New York the gold medal of Queen Sofia Spanish Institute in 2007 the actress Penelope Cruz.Crimson is also the one of the Empire and Fantasy in the chest that he dressed for the dinner offered to Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni in 2009. Lo engalanó con la tiara, los pendientes y el collar de rubíes de la joyería Van Cleef & Arpels que el armador griego Stavros Niarchos le regaló por su boda.A very versatile game whose pieces can be added until reaching an incredible length. Who will inherit it?It is not part of the jewels of passing.

And we continue.In 2006 the now emeritos went together to the 60th anniversary of King Gustavo de Sweden.He with tuxedo and she with a pink couture with silver details of the fall of 2003.One of the models that has repeated the most during the first decade of the 2000.

At the wedding of Princess Victoria of Sweden with Daniel Westling, four years later, Sofia wore a dress of the same signature of the Summary 2008 Sewing Collection, the last designer.To this same collection belongs the jacket suit that wore at the concert that director Zubin Mehta gave in his honor to celebrate the 70th birthday of the Greek in the Superior Auditorium of Music baptized with his name or the flowered and recharged model that he premiered for theDinner with the president of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, in 2008.

Flores is also the 2003 sewing proposal that we saw during the reception that Casa Real offered Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan.Proposal to which the chocolate brown also belonged on his official trip to Thailand in February 2006 or the metallic with which he entertained President Vladimir Putin with a few days apart.

Nívea is also the jacket embroidered with branches of the 2006 collection that wore in 2009 to receive on April 21 the president of India, Pratibha Devising Patil, in the Palace of East and that combined with the floral tiara that the Government of Spain, thenIn Franco, he gave him when he married Juanito.This coat garment also put it in the Vatican, with comb and mantilla, during the canonization ceremony of John Paul II and Juan XXII.

Casa Real has an outstanding account: an exhibition by the Queen Emeritus closet that keeps jealously in the basement of Zarzuela.

Zarzuela's unknown treasure: Queen Sofia and her impressive Valentino Alta Sewing closet, exposed (from the 70s to today)
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