  | | | | Queen Elizabeth embraced fashion and used it send a powerful message, according to an author and fashion journalist.
"She said so much with her clothing without having to say anything at all," said Elizabeth Holmes, the author of HRH: So Many Thoughts on Royal Style.
Elizabeth, Canada's head of state and the longest-reigning British monarch, died Thursday. She was 96.
Holmes pointed out that the "visual landscape" changed drastically during Elizabeth's reign, from the explosion of photography, to the cable news era to the Instagram age.
"The Queen experienced all of those. And fashion is such a big part of that," said Holmes.
Listen to part of her conversation with As It Happens host Nil Köksal. | | | | | | | | |  | | | | Queen Elizabeth took the throne at the age 25, and stayed there through seven decades, 15 British prime ministers and the longest reign in U.K. history.
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