Clash of the front-row Princesses at Paris Fashion Week

Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana of Thailand was unceremoniously snubbed by Princess Beatrice at the Saab show

 BY ANDY BLOXHAM

Princess Sirivannavari (Left) is a keen follower of fashion and the Saab show was her fifth at Paris Fashion Week alone. The princess, who is a fashion student in Thailand, is also an international standard badminton player and was recently ranked among the 20 most attractive young royals in the world by Forbes magazine. She has previously shown a collection of her own work in Paris and has appeared in daring outfits including a figure-hugging black dress slashed to her upper thigh matched with black lipstick. By contrast, Princess Beatrice’s (Right) choice of a hat for the Royal wedding which was likened to a pretzel, antlers, and a toilet seat was widely criticized by fashion experts. The silk “pretzel hat”, by milliner Philip Treacy, became a talking point on the internet before the princess took the joke in her stride and auctioned it for Unicef and Children in Crisis. The granddaughter of the Queen, who is 23, seems to be improving her kudos and has been praised for her fashion sense this week. - – Follow more on this story