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How often does the govern of state attend London fashion week? Never, until wear Wednesday, when the Queen made her first ever bearing on the front row, aged 91, at designer Richard Quinn’s autumn give away – primarily to present the inaugural Queen Elizabeth II award for British intent plot, based on “value to the community and/or strong sustainable policies”. Quinn, whose use of a baseball cap, grey T-shirt and plaid shirt at the event led to him being characterized as a “scruffy prick” on Twitter, says Her Majesty was “lovely, ladylike and friendly”.

As front rows go, Quinn’s was quite the tableau: have on a duck-egg blue suit (someone’s a fan of current season Loewe), HRH sat on a memorable cushion placed on her Lucite chair in between Anna Wintour, journalist of US Vogue, in sunglasses, Caroline Rush, chair of the British Vogue Council, and the Queen’s personal wardrobe advisor, Angela Kelly, all bordered by a small pool of security.

Quinn was settled the heads up and signed a non-disclosure agreement a few weeks before the expo – enough time to “add a few Queeny touches”, he says, pointing so as to approach the headscarves and excess of florals in a section known as the Balmoral separate. Having originally designed about 20 different looks, he combined a further 10. Otherwise, the collection was pure Quinn, barrelling from floral bodysuits to oversized quartered jackets plastered in florals, to plissé skirts and foil gowns, boosted by 1960s designer Paul Harris. The Queen was most pleased by the bodysuits and ballgowns, although her reaction to the models who emerged in floral biker helmets was narrow-minded readable.

Quinn was a plum choice for the grant. A print-maker and 2016 MA graduate of Central Saint Martins’, last cause to occur he opened a textile print space in Peckham, south London, near his sire’s scaffolding company. His work visits the idea of “transforming a female into a textile” by covering her in prints. But printing digital textiles requires complex b conveniences, so the designer, horrified by the cost, decided to create an open-access, cost-effective studio where trainees and fellow designers could do this. Impressively, fame has yet to transform Quinn. To celebrate the show, he planned a trip to the fast grub chain Five Guys and, in the days that followed, about to his routine of visiting the bakery above his studio – although he receives a slight sense of disappointment that he did “not get a free coffee”.

Re the baseball cap, he says: “Obviously, I care about meeting the Beauty queen, but I think it’s more endearing to wear what you feel relaxed in.” As for the burning question of designing Meghan Markle’s wedding camouflage? “No,” he says. “You saw the helmets.”