Ex-Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman says Princess Eugenie’s dress didn’t do her boobs ‘any favours’

FORMER Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman says Princess Eugenie’s pale pink Zac Posen evening gown “didn’t do her bosom any favours”.

FORMER Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman says Princess Eugenie’s pale pink Zac Posen evening gown “didn’t do her bosom any favours”.

Writing for The Mail On Sunday, she said the American designer was “in love with the golden days of Hollywood” meaning the dress “could easily be imagined on Joan Crawford or Bette Davis”.

Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank at Royal Lodge in Windsor, on October 12, 2018 ahead of the private evening dinner, following their wedding.

The 60-year-old journalist added: “But it’s a curious choice for a young woman. A pleated bodice or pin-tucked plissé for anyone who has a bosom, as Eugenie does, will never do you any favours.”

Alexandra wishes Eugenie, 28, had flashed more flesh at her reception, which was held at The Royal Lodge in Windsor.

She continued: “I just wish she had exposed more of her lovely skin rather than covered it in a heavy layer of silk.”

Posen, 37, has previously designed dresses for Uma Thurman, Reese Witherspoon and Rita Ora, while earlier this year he was chosen to redesign the outfits for Delta Airlines’ 60,000 staff.

Ex-editor-in-chief of British Vogue Alexandra Shulman.

It is reported Eugenie’s Biddle Sawyer Silk bespoke gown cost in excess of £14,000 ($AU25,800).

Alexandra announced in January 2017 that she would be leaving British Vogue after 25 years, and has been replaced by Edward Enninful, a former fashion director at i-D Magazine.

Sharing a shot of her final cover online, she wrote: “So excited to receive my final issue of Vogue as Editor-in-chief.

“Filled with fashion and memories and the women who made a difference in the past quarter of a century.”

Alexandra has previously claimed designer clothes sizes are now so “extreme” only the “very, very thinnest” people fit into them.

Speaking to an audience at Regent Street’s Fashion and Design Month in October, she said: “I’m pleased that I did raise the question of the sizes, the sample sizes.

“I wrote this letter to all the designers saying could they consider the fact that the sample sizes that we have to photograph are so small that only the very, very thinnest people in the world could get into them.

“I mean, even some models couldn’t get into them. It reached a really very extreme stage. I’m pleased I did it, but I really don’t think it made any difference.

“Everyone wrote polite letters back and everyone had their own reason why they did it, but I felt at least I’d brought that question up in the fashion arena.”

This article originally appeared on The Sun and has been republished here with permission.