A recent BBC poll of 2,000 women across the UK shows the public thinks Kate is a bigger fashion icon than Lady Gaga and Cheryl Cole, and another poll conducted by YouGov among 1,000 people 18 and older shows 86 percent of women don't envy Kate Middleton, even though she's pretty.

To define Kate's dressing style, fashionistas find it as hard as Kate herself does. She is at a transforming stage, battling between royal and modern.

Take the tiara, for instance. Some tabloid reports say Kate is considering wearing flowers in her hair on her wedding day, even though she knows "she's risking being blamed as disrespectful to royal tradition."

"The unknown is how far she's going to present herself as absolutely the traditional bride, and how far her designer might collaborate with her just to give her that bit of difference," said Alice Ritchie, of Agence France-Presse.

Fashionistas also kept close tabs on Kate's wedding dress, saying it is so much more than a dress. UK Vogue Editor Alexandra Shulman points out: "The dress carries not only her personal taste, but her commitment to fashion, her attitude to money, especially in the current economic doldrums."
 

She must have noticed the unspoken fashion mission she carries. She is reported to have inherited Princess Diana's style: the love of blue and the love of wearing a beret.