It is late, but it arrives. One month after its opening to the public, the official inauguration of the Royal Collections Gallery is celebrated in Madrid. kings preside Philip VI y Joy. Acting Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, has arrived ten minutes before the monarch and his wife. The media pass the accreditations control at 18:00. It was blisteringly hot. It was time to wait.
Don Felipe and Doña Letizia have made their arrival after 7:00 p.m. It is your institutional visit to the great treasure of the history of Spain that National Heritage shows with all its luster and splendor. The opening has been postponed until after the 23-J elections because nothing is inaugurated during the electoral campaign. It has been this Tuesday, July 25, the day of Santiago, in the mega annex to the Royal Palace of Madrid. An immense white container that overlooks the Manzanares River, designed by the architects Luis Moreno Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón. It is the most important cultural and museum event in Spain in the last decade. This is the setting and this is the Queen’s look.
With this background and the hangover of 23-J, Don Felipe and Doña Letizia have visited the Gallery. With an agenda marked this week by their transfer to Palma this Wednesday, the King and Queen have toured this space, which has been so long awaited and has aroused so much expectation.
For this cultural format event in a Madrid that is about to say goodbye to a scorching month of July, Letizia has relied on a premiere. A new look cut dress with a wasp waist, which is cinched with a black bow-belt to match the wide straps and sweetheart neckline. She lifts this design, a flowery print in graphite and anthracite gray on white in a perfectly cut midi skirt. Quite a style swerve after that vibrant electric blue Maksu design in the house of ABC. This time, neither vibrant nor electric nor asymmetrical nor vaporous. In the antipodes, this armed, cinematographic dress with a Hollywood air from the 50s.
