News about Clare Waight Keller

Clare Waight Keller, who gained widespread recognition after designing Meghan Markle 's 2018 wedding dress during her tenure at Givenchy, was recently appointed as Uniqlo's creative director. She now oversees both the Uniqlo: C line, which she was brought on to develop last year, and the brand's core collections. The autumn/winter 2024 collection features neutral tones, soft fabrics and layering pieces - elements that seem perfectly suited to Meghan's style.

Accustomed to wearing designer clothing and exquisite jewels, the Duchess of Sussex is widely recognised for her luxurious style. Yet Meghan Markle has admitted she owns several pieces from Japanese casual wear brand Uniqlo, following the appointment last month of her favourite designer, Clare Waight Keller, as the label's creative director. In an email to The New York Times as part of an interview with Clare, who designed the Duchess' wedding dress, Prince Harry's wife revealed how she and the Birmingham-born fashion expert have a 'beautiful friendship'. Meghan added that she owns several of Clare's Uniqlo items, including a trench coat and some dresses. 'Her pieces for the brand have movement and modern grace,' wrote the Duchess. The brand's autumn/winter 2024 collection features neutral tones, soft fabrics and layering pieces - elements that seem perfectly suited to Meghan's style.

The British designer (pictured left), 54, originally from Birmingham, was the first ever woman to head up Givenchy in March 2017, where she designed the Duchess of Sussex's wedding gown (pictured left inset). After a three year tenure, Clare left Givenchy in 2020, with the French fashion house this month revealing Sarah Burton (pictured right), the designer of Kate Middleton 's nuptial gown (pictured right inset), as its new creative director.

The 2018 royal wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex was watched by almost 30million people on television around the world. The anticipation in the days leading up to the iconic nuptials six years ago today was high and rumours were rife regarding who Meghan would wear down the aisle at St George's Chapel. In the end, Meghan chose to work with French fashion house Givenchy and Clare Waight Keller, their first first female artistic director. The Duchess praised the designer's elegant aesthetic, impeccable tailoring, and relaxed demeanour. The understated dress was floor-length and featured long sleeves with a bateau neckline, reflective of Meghan's own classic personal style. Costing £100,000, it perfectly embodied her 'effortless American style,' said Waight Keller, who described the finished dress as 'not overly feminine, but not really minimal either.' The late Queen Elizabeth II allegedly believed the the dress was 'too white' for a divorcee to wear in a church. Royal commentator Ingrid Seward said in her recent book My Mother and I: 'In the monarch's view, it was not appropriate for a divorcee getting remarried in church to look quite so flamboyantly virginal.'

Of all the dates on the calendar, it feels fitting that the Chloé show fell on leap day, 29 February, whose rarity always makes it feel highly charged. According to astrologists, the Sun and Saturn united in Aquarius that day, creating a potent energy and a profound shift. It certainly did.

The Duchess of Sussex, 42, was astonished as she landed at the Asanebo Restaurant in Studio City on Thursday. She went for a casual ensemble, pairing gray skinny jeans with a matching jacket and understated ballet pumps. According to the New York Post, the former Suits star was then accessorized with a $3,670 Goyard Bellechasse Biaude PM Bag slung over her arm.

During the lengthy 3,900 hours spent perfecting the Duchess's wedding in Windsor in 2018, Meghan, 42, and Clare, 53, developed an unbreakable bond. Clare, a Birmingham-born Suits actress, spoke at the 2023 Bazaar At Work Summit in London, giving insight into how she was preparing the Suits actress for her big day. 'It was just the two of us for so long, and it became this very personal girlfriend type of relationship,' she said. The designer, who launched a line with Japanese retailer Uniqlo last November, appeared in the Sussex's Netflix series and received the coveted British Womenswear Designer of the Year award from the royal. Meghan presented Clare with the prestigious British Womenswear Designer of the Year award in 2018

On Thursday, Meghan Markle showcased her Californian style at a lunch date with her wedding dress designer at the new celebrity hotspot, Cipriani in Beverly Hills. The Duchess of Sussex, 42, wore her tobacco-coloured cashmere Max Mara coat, £467) belted trousers by Ulla Johnson, and $695 (£548) ballet flats by Aquazzure.Colour coordinated with her jacket. Meghan emerged from the Italian restaurant in her chic jacket despite the warm 66°F (18°C) weather. Clare Waight Keller, the former artistic director of the fashion house Givenchy, was on hand for Meghan's bridal gown.

Nicky Haslam, one of Queen Camilla's goddaughters, grew with Princess Diana, is a good friend of Queen Camilla, and performed in front of Queen Elizabeth. The waspish interior designer is, on the other hand, not impressed by the Prince and Princess of Wales (pictured right). In a department store window, Haslam, 84, accuses the heir to the throne and his wife of being 'childish,' ignorant, and dressed like dummies. So dissatisfied is he that they have been included on his 'Common List,' his playfully snobbish collection of things that have caused him anxiety over the past year. The list is printed on a tea towel (pictured left inset) or "drying cloth" as he describes it, and is available to his customers at £40 a time. The family has been labelled 'The Waleses in blue,' referring to their ability to wear color coordinated outfits.

Even when pregnant with baby Archie, the Duchess of Sussex trimmed a chic figure. Meghan glowed in a symmetrical Givenchy as she gave Claire Waight Keller, the designer who had made her wedding gown earlier this year, a gold award at the 2018 British Fashion Awards. As ever, it was an elegant, crisp cut display. However, there was one part of the outfit that made me erect an eyebrow or two.

Although we are in these cash-strapped days, nothing pleases the heart - or purse - more than a designer collaborating with a High Street company. It's a reason to be happy when the designer is Clare Waight Keller and the High Street brand is Uniqlo. Waight Keller's designs are high-profile, even though she isn't a household name. It was she who created Meghan Markle's wedding dress in 2018 during her three-year tenure as the creative director of Givenchy. As she crept to order the bride's satin train, she attracted a global audience of 1.9 billion. It was a rare public appearance for the Birmingham-born designer, 53, who prefers to let her ideas take center stage. Uniqlo's new ones are likely to do just that. Uniqlo: C, a 41-piece series, is a sleek, inexpensive distillation of the Waight Keller look that has made him such a coveted name.

Clare Waight Keller, a fashion designer (and Duchess of Sussex's wedding dress designer), of Chloé and Givenchy, has collaborated with high-street powerhouse Uniqlo to create Uniqlo:C, the ultimate core collection, which debuted on Friday.

EMILY PRATTOTT: The designer behind Duchess of Sussex's wedding dress is set to debut her new collection with high street designer Uniqlo next month. Clare Waight Keller, a luxury brand known as Givenchy and Chloe's creative director, has created a capsule collection for the Japanese chain. With top prices starting at £109, it will be a lot more affordable than Meghan's wedding gown, which is expected to have cost £110,000.

The Sussexes, according to PR consultant Mark Borkowski, have overpaid to make Meet Me At The Lake into a Netflix film because "they have no track record in drama or making anything of importance." Penguin Random House, the publishers of Harry's global bestseller Spare, may have assisted with the arrangement with Archewell Productions because Penguin also pulled out Meet Me At The Lake, according to the writer. Author Carley Fortune, who is a huge fan of Meghan's book, has titled her book a 'love letter to Toronto,' where Meghan filmed Suits and fell head over heels for Harry. Ms Markle could have a personal connection with Ms Fortune, a journalist who worked in the city for many years. The romance novel has a plotline that mimics the couple's own tale. It features a woman whose parent dies in a car accident and then leans on alcohol and drugs. In addition, it addresses topics such as mental stability and post-natal depression. After several deals fell and corporate intentions flopped, Mark Borkowski told MailOnline that acquiring the film rights was a 'playbook' effort to resurrect their media careers. They're so far off the radar,' he said. He believes that pinning their career resurrecting dreams on a romance book that has echoes of Harry's own life is 'playbook stuff.' They must have overpaid for the rights,' he said. It's a best seller so why would the rights holders sell it to Meghan and Harry when they have zero track record in drama or producing anything of consequence?'

Meghan Markle's stunning wedding gown was all royal fans aspired for – and more – as she walked down the aisle toward Prince Harry. The Duchess of Sussex accompanied her groom in a timeless silk gown in pure white, with a 15ft veil embroidered with Commonwealth flowers. The gown, created by Clare Waight Keller for Givenchy (left), was minimal yet sophisticated, with the main focus being the open bateau neckline that gracefully framed the shoulders and sculpted Meghan's waist. Nonetheless, another wedding dress will be on display (right) the day - and this one wowed the crowds in a new way.

As he got behind the wheel of his car near Birkhall, Aberdeenshire, the King seemed stony-faced. It was the first time he had been seen in public since his youngest son appeared on television talk shows downing tequila shots and ridiculing royal protocols to advertise his controversious autobiography. Throughout the Duke of Sussex's onslaught of threats, His Majesty has remained a dignified silence.

At Prince Harry and Meghan's wedding (inset), the tailor at the center of the bridesmaids' dresses drama (right) was not surprised that it triggered tears. After being tracked down by the Daily Mail, luxury suit and dressmaker Ajay Mirpuri (left, center) has broken four years of silence on the now legendary case, which allegedly resulted in tears from the Duchesses of Sussex and Cambridge. He claimed he saw nothing of what is said to have transpired, but three others were forced to work round the clock at Kensington Palace and Windsor Castle for four days before the 2018 nuptials, after discovering that none of the six bridesmaids' dresses made by French fashion house Givenchy fit.

According to Harry, the King and Queen Consort wanted to change the way she spelt her name. The prince's father and mother both wanted Catherine to spell Katherine (with a K) rather than a 'C' when she first joined the Royal Family, according to a vignette. They felt there were too many names beginning with a 'C' and it would cause confusion.'

As Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, returned to America as working royals and moved to the United States, William didn't only miss a brother, he lost his closest friend. He cannot excuse Harry, not least because of the consequences for his wife, Kate, and their children. According to KATIE NICHOLL's latest book, the late queen was surprised by Meghan's wedding dress choice, she had to step in, and that royal brother's rift remains broken. If the Sussexes' departure was hurtful and upsetting to William on a personal level, the brothers' rift has raised fundamental concerns about Royalty's role and value in the modern age. And it will be up to King William and Queen Catherine to answer the questions.

Queen Elizabeth II hosted President John F. Kennedy and his wife, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, at Buckingham Palace in June 1961. Jackie had a more formal one-on-one lunch meeting with the monarch in March 1962. Queen Elizabeth mourned the death of President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, in November 1963, when she had a bell ring in Westminster Abbey. In 1965, she dedicated a memorial to JFK at Runnymede on an acre of land that had been donated to the US Queen Elizabeth's JFK and Jackie, one of many links between their two families. In the years after President Kennedy's assassination, the royals have continued to pay their respects to him.

In the new episode of Meghan Markle's Archetypes podcast, show host Allison Langdon made a surprise appearance. The Duchess of Sussex expressed her dissatisfaction with being told a'million times over' that she was lucky Prince Harry had 'chosen her' to be his wife when they became engaged in 2017. In a 2018 episode of 60 Minutes Australia, Markle, 41, illustrated her point with a video of Langdon, 43, discussing the couple's wedding. 'The happy couple have enchanted the world with their real-life fairy tale,' Langdon said on the program.

RICHARD EDEN: It was only at the funeral of Lucian Freud that all 14 of his Lucian Freud's (pictured right) acknowledged offspring ever met together, according to him. When the family bids farewell to Jane McAdam Freud, the first of the siblings to die, a similar, sombre gathering seemed likely next week. However, I will tell you that any expectation of that is over. Alex Boyt, one of Freud's five sons, was killed in an extraordinary attack in a London pub on Thursday night, leaving him on the verge of alerting his brother, Paul McAdam Freud (left), to the police.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been together for almost six years after first meeting through a mutual friend in early July 2016. They kept their marriage under wraps for months, but in an interview, the new mother proclaimed herself "the luckiest girl in the world" in November 2016. The palace's statement in February 2021 stated that Harry and Meghan will not be able to hold royal patronages. As member's of the royal family, Harry and Meghan have had a bumpy ride, but as a couple, they seem more powerful than ever.

Meghan Markle's moment, as we all know it, was a moment she walked down the aisle in a stunning gown by Clare Waight Keller for her wedding to Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex. The Duchess of Sussex's entrance into the public eye has simultaneously thrust her into the fashion world. Having served as the brand ambassador for Reitmans, the 40-year-old multi-hyphenate created a line. In 2019, the fashionable duchess unveiled a capsule collection with Smart Works to benefit working women in the United Kingdom. Not to mention, she contributed to the September 2019 issue of "Forte for Change" in which influential women like Gemma Chan, Jane Fonda, and former First Lady Michelle Obama were among the featured women. People are always in awe by Markle's dazzling beauty to her sophisticated yet quirky style, just as they were with Princess Diana. Although the actress has risen to prominence as the royal style icon in her own right, some of her best fashion moments are a nod to her late mother-in-law, who has a long history as the royal trendsetter. Perhaps your mind goes back to the time when the duchess stepped out in a purple-and-red colorblock outfit when pregnant with Archie, immediately reminiscent of Diana's contemporary appearances during her worldwide travels in the early '90s. Markle made her debut at Ascot in 2018, wearing Givenchy, allowing the world to relive the epoch of Diana's stunning black-and-white ensemble matched Tomasz Starsweski at the same time. Markle has continued to keep Diana's peerless tradition alive with her appearance at Trooping the Colour as part of a chic ensemble featuring an off-the-shoulder navy jacket and a wide-brim hat from Stephen Jones Millinery. Markle, like Diana, has a reputation for making clean color palettes and combinations look fantastic.