I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.

The crinoline fashion for evening wear influenced world fashion and the French designers contributed their own take on the influence of Hartnell and the Queen's ancestry by creating day clothes featuring plaids or tartans in their next seasons designs. Hartnell was also commissioned to design women's uniforms for both army and medical corps during the war and subsequently designed others including those for the women's Metropolitan Police in London. However much Hartnell regretted this from as personal and business angle his Society stage and film commissions soon included those of other members of the Royal Family and he was patronised by all the many Royal ladies until his death.

Sir Norman Bishop Hartnell KCVO (12 June 1901 London – 8 June 1979 Windsor[disambiguation needed]) was a British fashion designer.