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The future royal wore a trouser suit for her first official evening engagement with Prince Harry, ushering in a new kind of sartorial diplomacy
Last night, for her first official evening engagement with Prince Harry, Meghan Markle wore an Alexander McQueen trouser suit. It was slim-fitting, with cropped cigarette trousers, worn with very high stiletto heels and a cream dishabille blouse. The outfit was many things: extremely Saint Laurent’s Le Smoking, a bit Princess Diana, with a soupcon of Marlene Dietrich, even a indication of Carine Roitfeld( although Roitfeld probably wouldn’t have worn a blouse underneath the tux ). What it was not was a Sandringham-appropriate boxy Catherine Walker skirt suit. It was notable because it didn’t feel like standard royal family dressing at all.
The royal family wrote the rule book on sartorial diplomacy. Generally, their approaching is unambiguous. It is a gown decorated with 2,091 shamrocks in Ireland; a Chanel tweed coat in Paris in the middle of Brexit; a dress by Polish decorator Gosia Baczynska at a garden party in Warsaw. It is the opposite of wearing a cult band T-shirt that only fellow followers will recognise. The clothes are designed to speak of decency and propriety; the visual messages are clear enough to charm heads of state and reach the rest of us in the cheap seats as well.
Read more: theguardian.com
