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Hello and welcome to a post covering spring and fall fashions from brands worn by the Princess of Wales.  Alexander McQueen has played a vital role in the Princess of Wales's working wardrobe since she joined the royal family in 2011. Below, the Princess in three designs by Sarah Burton, the label's creative director. When it was announced in 2023 that Ms. Burton was leaving the brand, many of us wondered if Alexander McQueen would remain a key style factor for the Princess. Below, you see three more McQueen looks. When we learned Sarah Burton would become creative director of Givenchy, an obvious question involved the possibility of Givenchy playing a part in the Princess's wardrobe. I thought we could use the two brands' autumn 2025 collections as a starting point for a discussion of this topic. Sadly, there are minimal photos from the A/W 2025 Givenchy collection and none I can license. Not even any I could embed from Getty Images. The best I can do is share some social media posts by the brand and reviews of the collection. NOTE: Try refreshing your browser if you have trouble seeing any of the embedded images. (Why I don't like using embedded images. Argh!) Here are several looks from the fall line in a quick video shared on Twitter.  Stripped-back to cut, silhouette, proportion. The Fall Winter 2025 Womenswear collection by Sarah Burton, evolved around tailoring, merging and counterpointing masculine techniques with feminine shape. A sense of powerful femininity is constructed, re-cut, played with and… pic.twitter.com/rCPamIu4Ey — Givenchy (@givenchy) March 7, 2025  We learn more about Sarah Burton's first collection for Givenchy from this Women's Wear Daily story:  Sarah Burton’s exploration of the Givenchy archive quickly zeroed in on a stash of patterns and fabric swatches from founder Hubert de Givenchy’s first collection from 1952. Inexplicably, they were hidden inside a wall in the designer’s first atelier, and unearthed only about a year ago dur