Kate’s Clothes Roadshow: Kate Middleton Earns Her Place as a Style Icon by Visting to North America
Kate Middleton is radiant and beautiful. She is not a fashion plate. Something has surely changed in Kate’s wardrobe since she married into the royal family. Meanwhile, on her first official overseas trip as the Duchess of Cambridge — also her first-ever visit to North America — which concluded yesterday, she solidified her more unofficial title of style icon. Media calling her a “fashion icon” could easily be accused by people in the fashion industry of confusing the terms fashion and style. Then, let’s see the Kate’s clothes roadshow.
She wore a bird-printed Issa dress and black patent wedge slingbacks — on her first day in Canada. While that look retained a certain schoolgirlish charm, it seemed out of place with the rest of the princess’s new, sophisticated working wardrobe. And she also wore nearly the same outfit she was photographed in the day before her wedding.
While reportedly, she does her own makeup. And most of her clothes were very expensive. She even dared to pair a set of Prada pumps with a clingy vibrant purple Issa dress for an evening Canada Day event, she made the occasional frugal move to remind average girls everywhere she wasn’t born this way.
After landing in L.A., she added an American label to her sartorial repertoire with a simple, tie-front green Diane Von Furstenberg frock. When she wore the green dress, she was full of vigour. And this was also the only American label on her trip roster — a coup for Von Furstenberg, surely.
It was the culmination of a two-week North American tour during which Kate dazzled at every turn. Certainly, the Duchess looked stunning in her Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen couture lilac chiffon dress, with its sparkling belt emphasising her teeny-tiny waist. Kate is very charming.
Those eleven days proved that, while Kate Middleton is not a ravenous trendsetter, she has a great sense of style. In other words, she understands how to project her personal taste and even her personality to a world the palace is not yet letting her publicly. Moreover, in looking through all the photos of her from those days, it’s hard to find one where she’s not smiling like the happiest woman in the world. However, the best thing about watching Kate on this trip was not her clothes, but her. Now is the time when she must mostly communicate to the world through her image. Certainly, she’s not the most fashionable woman on the planet, but if she tried to be, she will be the happiest woman in the world.
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