Meghan and the unexpected “prize”: hers is the most representative dress of 2021

It has gone so much in fashion under the bridge in the last year that maybe we had even forgotten about this dress. Yet second Ibrahim Kamara and Gareth Wrighton of the magazine Dazedthe two experts called by Fashion Museum of Bath, the Giorgio Armani dress worn by Meghan Markle for the explosive interview given to Oprah Winfrey and the Dress of the Year 2021.

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We rewind the tape for almost a year. On February 28, 2021, a video starter was released of the event that would shake the British monarchy a few days later, on March 7. When there were still no statements to discuss, the creation of black and white silk georgette of the Cruise Collection spring-summer 2022 by Giorgio Armani it was the only fact to talk about. The Duchess, if you remember, was pregnant with the baby Lili. Her dress was not born of a maternity but her soft silhouette, together with the belt that gracefully gripped the hips, managed to pay the right attention on pregnancy announced on Valentine’s Day via Instagram.

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But the model was only the surface, what mattered was the design on the shoulder. That lotus flower which wanted to symbolize rebirth, self-regeneration and enlightenment. To simplify with a term on everyone’s lips: resilience. Meghan herself, through a spokesperson of her, confirmed the desire to express this idea “because the lotus flower can withstand thousands of years without water, able to germinate over two centuries later”.

The now famous two-hour interview seen by about 60 million viewers from all over the world, broadcast in almost 70 countries, is for the promoters of the initiative “one of the most important moments of pop culture of 2021”.

“Meghan’s Armani dress, worn to show a divine pregnancy, framed the Duchess in black against the generous landscape of the Hollywood garden” explained Kamara and Wrighton, respectively editor-in-chief and art director of the British cult magazine “this look is now firmly rooted in our imagination, through pure association with a viral television moment.”


Source: Vanity Fair

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