Meghan Markle’s wedding dress designer reveals location of her ‘something blue’
nypost.comunconventional union of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had some traditional aspects.Clare Waight Keller — the artistic director of Givenchy, who was behind Markle’s long-sleeved wedding gown — shared new details about the sweet (and secretive) “something blue” the Duchess of Sussex donned for her May 2018 nuptials.
More than five years after the couple tied the knot, Waight Keller revealed she stitched blue fabric from the dress Markle wore on their first date into her iconic wedding wear.“We basically sewed it into the hem of the wedding dress, so she was the only one that knew that it was there.
It was a little blue gingham check,” Waight Keller told Vanity Fair in a new interview. “It was the perfect personal memento that was secretly hidden inside the dress,” the British designer added.
An estimated 29 million people tuned in to watch Harry, 38, and Markle’s historic wedding. Markle, 42, alluded to the sentimental addition in the 2018 HBO documentary “Queen of the World,” but didn’t reveal its exact location. “Somewhere in here there’s a piece of blue fabric that’s stitched inside — it was my something blue,” she gushed. “It’s fabric from the dress that I wore on our first date.”The Post has contacted reps for Markle for comment.
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