Legendary British designer Vivienne Westwood once said the Queen was the most fashionable woman in the world. She was a monarch who needed to be "seen to be believed", and see we did — the Queen cut an instantly recognisable silhouette despite the crowded media landscape that arose during her reign. Peter McNeil, a design historian at UTS, believes this mission was a delicate and politically sensitive one, which set out to broadcast a modern, post-imperial Britain… with the Queen as its global symbol.