Did I post the anon who was concerned about Kate being associated with Meghan’s trainwreck? I don’t remember. I meant to comment that I thought the contrast actually benefited Kate. Today’s engagement is a perfect example. Meghan looks awful and Kate looks amazing.
“However, one obvious missing link in an otherwise flawless tour de couture was the glaring lack of Irish designers incorporated anywhere into her wardrobe. Wearing forest green for your first night just won’t suffice as flying the Irish fashion flag when you’ve displayed outfits worth over €10,000 over the course of 36 hours.”
At least someone noticed. I don’t know why she missed this incredibly obvious thing. It’s particularly glaring when she did local designers during her “regional tour” and the “Meghan Effect” was touted everywhere. Yes, they were all put forward by the London Fashion Council, but it’s not that hard to google for a local bag or necklace. Heck, the press was making lists for her.
It’s also going to look horrible if she “champions” Australian designers during Invictus.
Well, Scotland isn’t Ireland by any stretch of the imagination. I don’t care how Celtic it may be. It’s a different country. They were also the only UK designer she wore, no?
The tour is over, but they may do a photo at the airport saying goodbye. I’m kind of shocked that there wasn’t even one Irish designer. I thought that was a given and the tabs and People were making lists of designers that she may choose.
Pt 2 She is now emphasizing her breasts (padded bra for sure) tight around the torso. Sex pot Meghan. Stuff she is now wearing suits her shape much better. But can she sustain this – she needs to give them a lot of press to justify the costs. And her inability to walk is still a problem. Harry is conspicuously looking at her feet all the time fear of her falling out of the shoes. Express even had an article about her inability to walk. She needs to get shoes she can walk in.
I prefer a padded bra to seeing her nipples when she’s braless. Small mercies.
But this Roland Mouret dress doesn’t exactly look like it fits on top. It’s not smooth on top, kind of wrinkled. Looks like it needs to be pulled down or adjusted in some places. The color on her doesn’t help either. Kind of a washout.
And this suit looks pretty basic on her. I don’t understand how Givenchy justifies giving her this. It doesn’t look like a couture house suit with that scoop neck, at least to me.
Why the pumps on an athletic field? I will never understand this.
Which do you think it is, Plant? Do you think she randomly chooses an outfit without thinking about the event, or does she think about the event and deliberately chooses something that will be inappropriate? I thought she looked good today for another, different, event. And she should have padded the front of her dress to tamp down the permanent high beams. Instead she wants to emphasize them, with the tight top and her posture. Harry is also clearly trying not to hold hands with her, but she keeps doing it. Pretty certain he told her to put her dress back on her shoulders in the carriage at Trooping, too, but she refused. In one shot, he’s looking at her shoulders in dismay and she looks absolutely stubborn, looking straight ahead with her chin in the air. Tungsten seems to have problems with rules and authority, which could be why the Suits people were so frustrated with her as well.
Thanks for sending this in!. I suspect she doesn’t have the “feel” for this kind of events. When you’ve attended weddings and funerals your entire life (even as a member of the middle and/or upper classes) you have a feel for what is and isn’t appropriate. Ditto if you’ve been watching these events on television all your life.
Meghan hasn’t done that. She was raised in a hippie household and likely never attended formal events. This was probably her first baby christening EVER. it was definitely her first military event. The Spencer wedding was her first country wedding. She just doesn’t have a feel for it.
She has not delivered on the fashion stakes at all, which is bizarre because she has spent a shitload of money and gotten most everything custom. I think the GOAT dress and the Lady Gaga dress were the only off-the-rack looks, other than the casual polo outfits.
I was expecting her to pic one coherent look and one designer and build her “uniform” so to speak. Instead she has been all over the place. She started with black pants before the wedding, then went into demure pinks with tons of buttons and tablecloth corners and stuff, and now she’s going into severe shapes in colors. She went from messy bun, to messy waves, to actually looking like she brushed her hair now. She went from natural look, to dewy ingenue, to bronzer queen. She is ALL OVER THE PLACE. Plus she has barely any UK designers and she is spending tons of moolah.
Kate, weirdly enough, is the one who settled on one uniform (the McQueen coat dress), which she just keeps wearing to death. She is turning into HM. I suspect she was always heading this way, but now it is more noticeable. I think the contrast with Meghan fast-tracked this.
We had an anon last week who said she would probably switch to bright colors now because Season 1 was Meghan being super serious and trying to do a good job in black, Season 2 was Meghan being “in love” and trying to fit in in pink, and now Season 3 is Meghan breaking out the bright colors because now she is confident and a seasoned royal. I suspect that anon is right.
LOL, it’s “racist” to think that it’s too much money. And they bring up Kate’s clothes too. Dude, THE WHOLE POINT is that Meghan is spending ten times Kate’s yearly budged in six months, THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT.
Kate was famously wearing Reiss during her first year–heck, she recycled her engagement dress during the Canada tour–and she was STILL criticized for spending too much money. Kate was absolutely dragged for that 50k bill and it was a small fraction of what Meghan has spent.
And let’s not even mention that Meghan looks like absolute crap in her expensive couture. Her best looks so far have been the Halo dress, the blue off-the-rack Roland Mouret, and the black capris at polo this weekend. According to Katie Nicholls, Megs is now in the market for a stylist. That means she knows she’s royally fucking up. LOL, this is now the fifth person they’ve brought in to help.
Okay, the segment starts at 25:00. It’s not very interesting except for the epic awkwardness between the hosts at the beginning and the co-host saying “okay, time to talk about Meghan Markle, another chance for Melanie to get more hate messages.”
Okay, at the end of the video they start talking about the Givenchy and Melanie goes “I can show you my tweets” because she has been swamped with troll attacks. LOLOLOLOL
Do all Californians and people who move to California have bad taste in clothes. Geez that one chick thinks Rachel looked amazing while wearing floaters on her arms
Pt 2 But the real problem is not just her fashion roadkill look it is her numbers. They are non existent – she is not catching the public’s interest. Can’t cure that either. The other problem is the extravagant wardrobe pr that is now everywhere – no designer wants to be associated with a controversial figure and MM’s extravagant ways is controversy not to mention the threat of “revelations” that is rumored to be happening soon. She could become untouchable.
Well, “fashion roadkill” actually comes from an episode of Sex and the City, so I can’t take credit for it. It seems completely appropriate in this situation though.
I know people keep on saying capris for the pants, but I always think of capris being a little loose and not completely body hugging. What she’s wearing just looks like tight jeans that are too short. Maybe it looks better close up, but I doubt it.
I’m curious to see what she wears on Thursday though. It’s make or break for her in the fashion realm these next several days. I would bet that she’s about to become untouchable after this next month, but we’ll see.
Jess is now throwing Meghan under the bus. It’s every man for himself now, I guess.
This article is one part throwing Jess Mulroney under the bus, one part merching preview, and one part mea culpa on Meg’s fashion disasters.
Her engagements in the next few weeks are probably still make-or-break for her in the fashion world. No designer wants their pieces looking like fashion roadkill over the next five months.
Thanks for the Throwback Saturday, anon. That interview is so bizarre in retrospect. It really illustrates how Meghan SAYS all the right things, but then she doesn’t execute AT ALL.
Here she is on what she supposedly learned from the Suits wardrobe department.
That lesson didn’t stick at all. She clearly does not know what looks good on her figure.
Here she is on recycling and mixing and matching:
Another one that didn’t stick at all as we’ve had expensive new pieces on pretty much every single outing.
Here she is talking about craftsmanship:
This is the most ironic statement EVER. The “work” has spoken for itself in the past couple of months and what it has said is not nice.
Oh, and this is why she moved from blacks to pinks:
That’s why she went from blacks to pinks. She was re-enacting her Rachel Zane plot line. If only she’d re-enacted the wardrobe too.
Pt 2 ultimately though she can’t maintain public interest – brands look at the numbers and hers suck. She cannot sustain interest especially without Harry. And she does not show clothes well. Too short can’t walk in stilettos and the makeup and mistakes generate too many negatives. Notice Prada did not feature her on their IG when she wore that Prada. She tries but she really is just a zlist celeb. Givenchy took her pic off their IG when she wore the wallpaper dress. But her reps keep try
This is what I got when I did the MM + Givenchy search:
I suspect MM’s engagement on July 5th, and her engagements from July 9 through 11th are make-or-break for her on the fashion front. If she can’t look great, then I doubt she’s going to get anything else after. It’s becoming obvious to too many people that she’s a dud.
This might be one of the best things I’ve read this morning. (Sorry, I have a couple stressful days ahead.)
But what you’re saying explains a lot of things. She’s still merching. I just CANNOT understand what any luxury brand sees in her though. I mean, do you know? She looks terrible in all of her recent outfits. Like that blue disaster she wore to the Spencer wedding…😳
But you’re definitely right in that she doesn’t have much time. She probably has two weeks–MAYBE three weeks max–as I see it before things get even crazier.
The summer of fire is here, and July ain’t going to be pretty for a lot of people (and much of August too). Like, if you’re in the US and live in an area that could be hit by a hurricane, start preparing now. If you know people who are having tough emotional times, keep in contact with them and let them you know you care and that they’re not alone.
Shit is already crazy, and I guarantee you it’s going to get even crazier.
Ah, THANK YOU!! I wasn’t convinced it was a recent photo, but then the outfit is such a repliKate that I wasn’t sure. I mean, she actually looks healthier in that pic from two years ago than she does now, but I thought perhaps that it was taken at polo yesterday. Guess not!
Do we have any idea when & where Megs wore this dress?
Was it taken at yesterday’s polo game or somewhere else? I haven’t been able to find an article for the photo of Megs on the right yet, but saw it in my feed this morning.
Vox, of all outlets, has an apologia on Meghan’s crap style. It’s apparently supposed to signal that she belongs. I think the elements Meghan has chosen–80s stylings, color coordination to a ridiculous extent, mismatched designer flourishes–actually does the exact opposite.
2_SUGARS. They’re not having fun. They are probably pumping each other up in private while expressing anxiety in pms. They are a fandom – we all know how those work. They wanted to see Harry Meghan do the Cambridge stuff, make appearances, interact, be playful together, laugh together. The Cambridges didn’t cling but were clearly a unit.
3_The Sugars are not having fun because the pda with Harry and Meghan is “off” and they know it. There is no eye contact, no he says something and she laughs, she says something back and he laughs, people around them enjoying it. It’s weird. Sugars are looking for their romantic “fix” and it’s not there. Every time they have an appearance Sugars hope they’ll get more but it’s always the same.
4_so I know they are disappointed. The politics of fandom mean they can’t admit it to the whole fandom, but you know little clusters of them worry among themselves. Added to which her fashion fails, and the rest of the RF giving them the Big Chill, this is not playing as they expected.
5_Sugars may play the race card, but that would only work if Meghan truly looked great, but her looks were being picked apart anyway. Or if she were clearly doing a stellar job but getting unfairly dinged for not being robotically perfect. However, Meghan is a hot mess and they can see it for themselves, both fashion and job performance. So they are left with spinning themselves.
I can’t speak as to the politics of fandom, but I do think Meghan set some expectations that she cannot hope to meet now. That’s part of the problem.
Another part of the problem is that Meghan is “getting” stuff based on absolutely nothing. The fun part of watching the seating arrangements, events, loaned jewels, family orders, etc… is that they were supposedly based on work done, personal relationships, discretion, lack of scandals and stuff like that. Meghan is “getting” stuff based on absolutely nothing–heck, she’s likely getting them because she’s a complete fuck-up and needs the extra help–and that makes the “gets” absolutely meaningless. It’s hard to fan-girl that.
Interesting article with very subtle criticisms. The “experts” want her to wear better made and less expensive clothes as well as more British designers. I do not think that’s what is going to happen.
I lol’d at this one. I thought I was the only one who noticed that hem.
Yeah anon, as last Saturday showed, Megs is really putting the fear of god into Kate, who is–no doubt–going to spend another week with her children not at all worried about Meg’s future fuckups this summer.
I’d say “what waist?” since she doesn’t have much of one. But it looks like there is a design embroidered around the waist/torso on the front.
But really, she does NOT have the figure to pull off something like this. It literally looks like an oversized blouse with a belt.
Givenchy has got to be rubbing their eyes against the wall wondering why they gave her this. She’s going to make all the fashion houses look bad every time she wears something of theirs.
On the left is the promo shot of the Oscar de la Renta dress. On the right, is the Duchess of Sussex wearing it. Note that in the promotional photo it is shown as a drop waist dress, but Meghan is wearing it in a blouson style. Looks like she picked a drop waist dress that is too long for her to wear as drop waist (looks like the hem might drag if she did), so she’s wearing it blouson style, which is not flattering. Makes the dress look like it is swamping her.
Just looked at the links for the dress (Moda Operandi’s site and Vogue’s slideshow of the collection) and realized that this is a 2019 Resort dress! In other words, won’t be available for purchase until the fall. How common is this for royals to do this? I’m trying to think of a similar situation. This is common with celebrities for them to borrow and wear the sample, but royals??
On the left is the promo shot of the Oscar de la Renta dress. On the right, is the Duchess of Sussex wearing it. Note that in the promotional photo it is shown as a drop waist dress, but Meghan is wearing it in a blouson style. Looks like she picked a drop waist dress that is too long for her to wear as drop waist (looks like the hem might drag if she did), so she’s wearing it blouson style, which is not flattering. Makes the dress look like it is swamping her.
LOLOL, they are furious about the inappropriate comments. Dude, anyone can tell that the dress was wrong. We haven’t seen off-the-sholder at Trooping EVER, but suddenly it turns out that it was okay all along? Pffft.
And now Sam Cohen is okaying her clothes? In what universe? It’s been clear form the very beginning (starting with the photocall facial drama) that these two do whatever they want and no one says boo to them. The clothes are being picked in Soho House with Jess. Sam gets to see it when Meghan shows up in it. She’s not vetting anything.
Hell, even Givenchy is going “we had eight fittings and this is what she wanted because she’s a strong personality and she knows what she wants.” They couldn’t get a waist tucked in and their fashion reputation was on the line. Do you really think Sam gets to veto necklines? Sam is lucky she got a backup job after quitting BP in a huff. She’s not saying shit.
2/2 – Do you listen to Lainey’s podcasts? Her co-podcast producer mentioned that they used to do a lot of fashion/entertainment/regional hotspot segments with local based celebrities. Apparently there is a LOT of b-roll sitting around Toronto with Rachel fake-lifestyle guruing. The producer mentioned she though Rachel was basic AF, and it was jarring to have one of their own (or someone even lower than them on the thirsty-social TO totem pole) in the BRF.
Thanks, I don’t listen to the podcast, so this is interesting.
They discuss Megs and the wedding for the first 17 and a half minutes. Sasha openly says that Megs did NOT come across as completely genuine during the wedding.
They also discuss Meg’s fashion disaster from her first outing as a royal.
I think Lainey actually even says during the podcast that she’s not sure she’s ever liked Meghan’s style.
You know, things Lainey will say talking on a podcast that she won’t put in writing for her readers…
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