The black Armani dress worn by Meghan MarkleDuchess of Sussex, during her and Prince Harry’s bombastic interview with Oprah Winfrey, was selected as the 2021 Dress of the Year by the Bath Museum of Fashion, England.
The long silk georgette dress, with a deep front, lotus flower embroidery and a matching belt, is from Giorgio Armani’s Cruise Spring/Summer 2022 collection and retails for $4,700.
Since 1963, the Fashion Museum has invited a renowned figure from the fashion industry to select a dress – or sometimes multiple ensembles – of the year. The choice, which becomes part of the institution’s far-reaching collection, aims to encapsulate the prevailing fashion mood and represent the year that has passed.
This year’s selectors were Ibrahim Kamara and Gareth Wrighton, respectively editor-in-chief and art director of “Dazed” magazine. Last year, a dress of her own creation – called the Dress of Hope – was selected among the museum’s 2020 winning outfits.
“In today’s hyper-stylized pop culture, Dress of the Year now has the potential to also be ‘meme of the year’ and we both cling to Meghan and Harry’s now-iconic interview with Oprah as the definitive anti-establishment moment that will last. forever in the British collective conscience,” they said in a statement.
“Armani’s double-breasted gown, worn to show off a divine pregnancy, framed the Duchess in black against the lavish landscaping of Tyler Perry’s Hollywood garden.”
The interview, aired on CBS in the US and ITV in the UK in March 2021, aired in over 70 countries and attracted around 60 million viewers worldwide.
The museum has already put the dress on display as the final item in an exhibition called “A Fashion Story in 100 Objects”.
In previous years, the Dress of the Year featured work from designers such as Kenzo Takada, Missoni, Calvin Klein, Miuccia Prada, Karl Lagerfeld, Alexander McQueen, Tom Ford, Raf Simons and Nicolas Ghesquière.
Source: CNN Brasil
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