Every dress tells a story, and Catherine Middleton’s wedding dress tells one of a new generation of royalty building on British traditions and of the elegance and modernity of a young bride. Inside the Abbey, before she embarked on her walk down the aisle, Middleton paused for an adjustment, and in a flash, the months-long guessing game of who designed her dress was over. Sarah Burton, the creative director of the Alexander McQueen label, darted out from a side aisle and quickly smoothed the 9-ft.-long train, a last-minute tweak that inadvertently confirmed her role in the making of one of the decade’s most anticipated dresses.
