GRACE ADAMS.
QUEEN SIRIKIT MUSEUM.
Fit For Queen: Her Majesty Queen Siriki Creations by Balmain opened in August 2016 at the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles in Bangkok. Since then, locals, tourists and fans of Her Majesty have been visiting the museum for close-up look of her regal wardrobe.
The museum curated the exhibition in honour of the auspicious occasion of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit’s seventh cycle birthday anniversary on August 12, 2016. Fit For Queen focuses on the 22-year-long working relationship between Her Majesty and French couturier Pierre Balmain. In 1960, His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit embarked on historic state visit to 15 Western nations. The tour was the West’s formal introduction to the youthful royal couple.
Her Majesty had determined that she would need fashionable yet seasonally appropriate Western wardrobe for the six month-long tour, and engaged renowned Paris couturier Pierre
Balmain to design it.
From the early 1970s onwards, Balmain and to transform Thai village silks into fashionable Western attire, which was worn by Her Majesty to promote the work of her SUPPORT the chance to view more than 30 of Her Majesty’s most stylish daytime, cocktail and several pieces of luggage custom made by Louis Vuitton for Their Majesties, which were
never before displayed.
Design sketches and embroidery swatches lent by Balmain S.A. and the House of Lesage in Paris will help illuminate the design and creation by period footage and photographs. lavishly illustrated catalogue has also been published in Thai and English in partnership with Bangkokbased River Books. The museum is located inside the Grand Palace complex in Bangkok.
The exhibition will run through June 2018.
Source: MUHIBAH, the Royal Brunei Airlines in-flight magazine, 2017 May-Jun, pages 43-47. Text recovered from the scanned page by OCR and lightly corrected; spelling may differ from the printed edition.
