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Velvet ballgowns and Elvis slippers: Deborah Mitford’s inimitable style comes to Chatsworth

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There’s also Chatsworth itself. Right now, with its stupendous herbaceous borders in full bloom and its rolling hills (thank you, Capability Brown) at their most gorgeous, it’s hard to imagine anywhere lovelier.

As for the interiors, there are sumptuous furnishings  – plus Sargents, Gainsboroughs, Raphaels, Rembrandts, Freuds and some seriously good modern art. The main problem for a fashion designer is how their clothes can compete.

But if ever a collection was made for Chatsworth, it’s the one on display here. Erdem has long been obsessed with the 126-roomed house, which dates back to the 16th century and its inhabitants. 

He has dressed Laura Cavendish, Countess of Burlington, whose husband William is heir to Chatsworth, for years.

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