If only one had to be retained, it would be this one… At least, for the Bath Fashion Museum! On February 23, 2022, the English institution designated the Dress of the Year: the one worn by Meghan Markle for her famous truthful interview with Oprah Winfrey, broadcast on American television in March 2021. It is a dress with long sleeves in signed silk Armanifrom the spring-summer 2022 cruise collection, which subtly highlighted the early pregnancy of the duchess who was then pregnant with her daughter Lilibet.
In a press release, notably quoted by Page Sixit is clarified that the museum asked fashion figures to point out the dress which, according to them, “sums up the prevailing fashion mood, represents the past year and captures the imagination“. This year’s was chosen by Ibrahim Kamara and Gareth Wrighton, the editor of Dazed magazine and its artistic director: the duo therefore chose Meghan Markle’s Armani dress because it highlights “divine pregnancy“and she is now”firmly embedded in our pop culture psyche“. According to them, the interview confidences of the Sussexes is a “anti-establishment moment“, who “will forever live on in the British collective consciousness“.
According to the Fashion Museum, Meghan Markle did not wear this dress, at that time, by chance: “It was reported that the Duchess chose a dress with a lotus flower design because of the flower’s symbolic association with rebirth, self-regeneration and spiritual enlightenment, and his ability to thrive despite seemingly difficult conditions.” A message that directly echoed the themes raised during this truthful interview, during which the former American actress confided her deep ill-being when she was still an active member of the royal family. First alone , then with Prince Harry, she returned to the reasons for their departure from the monarchy and behind the scenes of their new life in California with Archie (born in 2019).The Duchess was then pregnant with her daughter Lilibet, born in June.