Here's a checklist of issues Meghan Markle likes: camel coats, beige knitwear, cream trouser fits, khaki pencil skirts, and tan courtroom sneakers. Garments and colours that counsel a sure down-to-earth-ness and professionalism about an individual. She can also be a fan of cookbooks, yoga kits, chook seed, tub salts, non-medicated skincare preparations, canine shampoo, and reed diffusers, as was specified by the trademark paperwork for American Riviera Orchard—the duchess’s soon-to-be-launched life-style model that may maybe rival Highgrove.
As with every new enterprise that takes place within the celebscape, Markle has determined to embark on a refined type transformation. Her failsafe, office-appropriate neutrals are being changed with diaphanous Oscar de La Renta shirt dresses, and Goyard purses. A lot of that is all the way down to her friendship with the stylist Jamie Mizrahi, who has been the invisible hand behind Adele's and Jennifer Lawrence’s well-reported picture overhauls.
For her most up-to-date public outing (see the pictures here)—which noticed Meghan Markle host an exhibition of The Kinsey African American Art and History Collection on the Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles—she wore a floral-embroidered Carolina Herrera cape, Aquazzura ballet flats, and a constellation of Cartier bangles. Her mom and The Mom—ie. Tina Knowles—have been additionally in attendance. That is exactly the type of healthful artisan I want to buy home made jams from: plodding to and from the money register in her cashmere mantle and smart flats, espousing the advantages of lavender.
This text first appeared on British Vogue.