For the Brit brands: they are not used to give it to the royals for free. It’s just not done like that. Of course, Sarah Burton might give Kate a huge discount when she orders 5 coat-dressed from the same pattern but in 5 slighly different shades of pastel. But look at that from the perspective that at these numbers it’s no longer a bespoken, it’s a mass production! And Erdem might give Kate a wholesale discount for buying a whole line of curtain dresses in one day. I mean, they have to encourage their loyal customers. But absolutely free? Nope, still not done for the royals. As for Meghans: she does not have budget left. Whatever PC gave her, she blew it up already. So Canadian and US freebies it is. Whatever JM can find.
Thanks for sending this in! I think she still has a Stella tux somewhere (at leas according to one of the leaks), but, in general, I suspect you’re right.
The only logical explanation I see for Rachel and her style choices is that she suffers from Achromatopsia, and a lot of people trolling her by lying about the color in front of her. So from here on out when I post pics of Rachel they will be in black/white/gray.
Notice how her dress and Harry’s tie match and the dark blue clutch is a great contrast.
The Altazurra trouser suit, €1,650, the Falabella Stella McCartney clutch, €425, the black suede Aquzurra pumps, €220, a €325 camisole by Deitas and a pair of pearl earrings gifted to her by Queen Elizabeth (price unknown, but worth at least €2,000) does not exactly exude a ‘princess of the people’ image
Thanks for sending this in! The ironic part is that they are complaining about a 5k outfit, which is on THE LOW END for Meghan. I didn’t even bitch about the cost of that outfit because Meghan’s average outfit cost is now somewhere near the five figures.
I suspect the straw that broke the camel’s back was that it was a 5k plain black pantsuit and it’s the fourth thousand-dollar black pantsuit she owns.
Nope. Can’t say I’m surprised though. If someone offers her something really expensive to wear, she’ll clearly wear it even if it doesn’t fit well and isn’t suitable for the occasion.
“Dior, Givenchy (doesn’t matter if the designer is British – it’s still a French brand), Ralph Lauren and Roland Mouret…not even a year as a British royal and Meghan has probably worn more non-British brands than Kate ever did in two years. It’s funny how people would rip Kate apart when she dared wear foreign brands once even when she wears a lot of British fashion but now people are quiet when Meghan does it even more than her.“ – Submitted by Anonymous
Most probably other anons have already sent you this, but I find it remarkable, as “shameless extravagance” is quite a strong wording, spot on but very strong for British usual politeness.
“One final piece of advice. Perhaps Meghan should book an appointment with Rigby & Peller, providers of lingerie to the royals — and get herself a proper-fitting bra.” nipple-gate has indeed reached the news.
It’s a ton of money! That’s why they are using strong language. What they don’t say is that they’ve been bitching about the cost of Kate’s clothing for years.
But they did mention Megs spent more than Kate’s first year married to William.
“Meghan, in her Givenchy trouser suit, at the Famine Memorial” – that’s golden! I hope this description sticks around. And every time Irish visit is mentioned MM to be known as “in her Givenchy trouser suit, at the Famine Memorial”. Like Kate is still being dragged for pink coat on Ground Zero memorial (funny side note – Camilla wore a pink suit to Ground Zero in 2005, guess that’s where Kate got the idea https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/royal-visit-ground-zero/ and absolutely noone cared or felt insulted by this shade of pink).
But what I find absolutely mind-blowing is Dior at RAF100. That’s just such a huge faux-pas. I’m not taking about the dress itself or black colour, overall MM looked fine. But absolutely inappropriate. First, This sort of services in the bound-duty of BRF. They all wear uniforms to show their ranks. Men wear literally uniforms, royal ladies wear their most distinct uniform like outfit. It’s not by chance that after RAF100 everyone is talking that Kate has settled into uniform. Yes, she did and yes that’s how it should be. And then there is MM with hollywood glamoure in haut couture black dress. Second, the price. We don’t have so far the numbers, but I really hope that roaly reporters and bloggers pest Dior for the quotes on such bespoken. My guess: the costs of the dress will easily surpass the combine costs of royal ladies outfits. That’s the Queen, 2 future Queens, Princess Royal, Countess Wessex. What sort of arrogance MM must have to think that she’s worthy of that much! This brings to the third point, who paid for it? MM sugars are screaming that she has millions of her own. Please! Total BS. Not even gonna entertain this notion. If Charles’ credit card pays for it, then why he allows such extravaganza? Personally, I don’t think Charles would approve the bills like that. My guess is that he gave them a budget, they have already blew it long time ago. And this Dior is a freebie. Which is even less acceptable than millions spent on clothes.
Oh I hope the reporters will spin and spin and spin the reciepts. And when push comes to shove how Charles will play it out? What is worse for him? Acknowledge freebies which opens doors so many other freebies probes? Or let total sum of MM clothes+jewels be attributed to his allowance and basically label MM a gold-digger?
Thanks for sending this in! I’m very curious about how much that Dior cost.
“I’d say the right comparison is Kate’s first year, not this year. ” – Heck, they may as well compare to the total of all Kate’s 7 years. The end result might be either “almost the same” or even “slightly over”. Just a fast google search, all numbers are from tabs articls in thousands £
I think May2011-Dec2011 was about 55K, but can’t find an article.
What we have so far ca. 500K. The missing 2 years and a half could be max 200K. Her totals for 7 years will be ca. 700K.
I’m afraid MM has already spent that. And wait till the end of the year.
Thanks for sending this in. I can’t find those years either. Funny because I could have sworn that they did this every single year. BTW, Kate’s entire Australia tour was 55k and I think they were counting repeats.
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.
this BBC documentary is on royal fashion it’s surely not definitive but is interesting. One of the points made here is that a royal should be concerned with what their clothes communicate but not concerned with what is fashionable. The most fashionable royals were the least popular. Fratelli Prada who is surely the last word on the matter of fashion has said that Queen Elizabeth is the “most elegant woman on the planet”. Yet Elizabeth eschews the “fashionable”. That strikes me as being quite insightful
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.
Hi Plant! I imagined you saw CB’s post about Markle’s expensive clothing, and OF COURSE, Kaiser blamed all the criticizing about her crazy expending on racism! (And, of course, she threw Kate under the bus, as always!) I’m so tired of this delusional, faux feminist bitch and her fake outrage about everything, she’s gotten so delusional that even the majority of the people in the comments were disagreeing with her. They were saying that they didn’t criticized her because of her race but because that money was coming out of the British people’s pockets and that England wasn’t stable enough right now to be expending money on some z-lister’s I’ll fitting clothes, which it shocked me, since Kaiser only accepts comments that agree with her point of view. Honestly, the first time I saw Markle I thought she was white, it never crossed my mind that she was biracial, much less black (which she isn’t) I’m honestly so over people blaming everything on racism, sexism or whining about something as stupid as ‘micro aggressions’ (which by the way, WTF is that??) sometimes you just criticize someone because you can see right through their bullshit, thirstiness and fakeness. Just like most people do with Markle.
Thanks for sending this in. I lol’d at the racism charge. Seriously? Kate faced this exact same criticism for a much smaller bill. Mary and Letizia get criticized every year. Sofia was lambasted last year and she spent like forty thousand euros or something like that–that covers maybe two of Meghan’s outfits. How is it racist to maybe start thinking that Meghan is spending too much when she’s hit the seven figures in six months? At the rate she’s going Meghan will have spent more in one year than Kate spend in her entire Duchess life. Heck, she may spend more than ALL the royal ladies together spent in 2017.
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.
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.
Wow, amazing E! video on Meghan’s wardrobe. Melanie Bromley calls it “extreme” and her co-host says “but she was supposed to be the relatable one…she duped us.”
I had a ton of anons asking me if I would stop blogging after the wedding. THIS is why I didn’t stop blogging. This is the best part, people figuring out that it was all fake pr.
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.
Hello dear Plant I’m sorry I don’t know how to send multiple pics, I did a research from Italy (there are some privacy laws that modify the Google search so it might be different from the States) of Vogue Paris and Meghan and you can see every time there is a press release it’s stated on the result. So it was very interesting. A lot of press releases about fashion brands, jewelry, makeup. I’ve researched also Kate on Vogue Paris and I found only one press release about her, that was the article of her and Char coordinating outfits. I will send you other pics next so you can see but you can probably do it better.
Thanks for sending these in! I think many of these are press releases from the brands themselves, but the Diana and “psychological pink” ones are coming from Meghan. They don’t really support any brand. But one reason why we are seeing so much Meghan coverage is that all her brands are sending press releases. In this pic alone we have shoe, beauty and clothing brands e-mailing stuff.
Kate does do press releases, but they are usually about family or work stuff. Also, she usually wears established UK brands that don’t scorch the earth like this.
But it’s interesting to see how it works. Thanks for sending this!
We reported a few weeks ago that some of the more old school members of the Royal household didn’t know what to make of the new Duchess of Sussex, so invented the nickname “Meghan The Menace”.
Their eyebrows have been raised further with Ms Markle’s choice of personal aide. Not a tried and trusted Royal adviser or an experienced aristo to help her navigate the choppy waters of royal etiquette, but someone from the celebrity world, whose biggest previous job was working for Madonna.
Buckingham Palace staff are already dining out on a tale of how Meghan’s new girl was calling up big brands and asking for freebies, as if her boss was in the cast of Love Island rather than married to the Queen’s grandson.
From this week’s Popitch
Whoa! Thank you so much for sending this in.
Here’s the “few weeks ago” item, in case anyone is interested:
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.
They used the same rationale for Kate’s expenses, but this is about 10 times what Kate spent. Kate is the future Queen. There is no reason why Meghan should be spending hundreds of thousands of dollars more than Kate.
Interesting. I suspected as much with her crappy sample looks.
I expect Fleet Street–and I’m including Piers as part of that–to dump a LOT on her this summer. There is no reason for them to wait. She’s done all the possible big stuff, and the press will need something to publish this summer.
If she could have learned to keep her mouth shut and stop baiting the press for good coverage every two seconds, she might have had more of a chance. But since she doesn’t know how to live without constant press coverage, well, constant press coverage will be what she gets.
HRH The Duchess of Cambridge’s Wedding Dress and accesories
Designed by Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen, the wedding dress (The ivory gown of white satin gazar with overall lace applique work with floral detail, the full skirt with box pleats, the back leading to a 9ft train. The lace bodice with V-neck line and long sleeves. The lace detail incorporating the rose, thistle, daffodil and shamrock) is on display alongside the magnificent Cartier ‘Halo’ tiara (A diamond ‘halo’ tiara formed as a band of 16 graduated scrolls, set with 739 brilliants and 149 baton diamonds, each scroll divided by a graduated brilliant and with a large brilliant at the centre; original red leather box, with later Garrards label.) lent by The Queen to The Duchess on her wedding day; The Duchess’s wedding shoes, hand-made by the team at Alexander McQueen (ivory shoes with lace embroidery); the diamond earrings commissioned by the Middleton family as a personal gift to the bride from her parents; a replica of the bridal bouquet(A wedding bouquet of lilly of the valley, hyacinth, sweet william, myrtle and ivory) and a veil made of layers of ivory silk-tulle with a trim of hand-embroidered flowers.
Can we talk about Leslie Jones in the front row at Christian Siriano’s show for New York Fashion Week?
For anyone who may have forgotten, Leslie Jones met Siriano when he volunteered over twitter to dress her for the Ghostbusters 2016 premiere when she was struggling to find a dress as no designer had offered to work with her. This was also amid Leslie’s twitter harassment issues.
Siriano’s show included women of all sizes & skin tones as well as Avie Acosta, who is trans woman and the first trans person in any of Siriano’s NY fashion week shows. As well as being inclusive of gender identity, Siriano included two gender non conforming androgynous male models in the show.
Leslie has said of Siriano that “he’s so normal, he’s so down to earth, and he does love all women. That’s what I love about him. He loves all women.”
So in the words of Siriano himself, “people are people,” & “we all grow in the same garden.”
House of Brat 