Zinneke, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wiki Commons

It’s a very famous royal wedding outfit, a style statement worn as a much talked about bride became a princess. Charlene Wittstock arrived at her civil marriage to Prince Albert II of Monaco in a trouser suit she designed with the help of Karl Lagerfeld.

Charlene and Albert’s civil wedding took place on July 1st 2011 at the Prince’s Palace in Monaco. For the event, the first part of what had been described as the biggest celebration in Monaco since the wedding of Albert’s parents in 1956, the princess chose a striking and surprising outfit. For this royal bride wore blue to say ‘I do’ for the first time.

Embed from Getty Images

Charlene’s civil wedding outfit included palazzo pants made of chiffon and a single breasted fitted jacket. The creation was a shade said to match her eyes to perfection and known since as ‘Charlene blue’. Charlene worked on the design with Lagerfeld who was creative director of both Chanel and Fendi.

He was among the most high profile guests at Albert and Charlene’s religious wedding on July 2nd 2011 although for that ceremony, the bride wore Armani. Karl Lagerfeld, however, dressed some of the most important guests at the event with the groom’s sister, Princess Caroline of Hanover, and her elder daughter, Charlotte Casiraghi, both in Chanel designs for the occasion.

Embed from Getty Images

Lagerfeld’s involvement in the royal wedding was widely expected as he had been close to Monaco’s royal family for many years. He was a particularly good friend of Caroline, who wore many of his designs over the decades, choosing his creations for major events in the Monaco royal calendar including the Bal de Rose.

However, it is the wedding outfit he helped Princess Charlene create that will remain perhaps his best known royal style statement.