Palace Source Says Kate Middleton Wants People to Stop Talking About Her Clothes
Due to the fact that she's basically a professional royal influencer, everything Kate Middleton wears immediately sells out the moment it's identified. And apparently she's not having it.
The Sunday Times reports that Kensington Palace "will no longer release details of her outfits" in a move that signals Kate's "wish for the focus to be on her work not her wardrobe."
Per a source, “There is an absolute feeling that it [the public work] is not about what the princess is wearing. She wants the focus to be on the really important issues, the people and the causes she is spotlighting. There will always be an appreciation of what the princess is wearing from some of the public and she gets that. But do we need to be officially always saying what she is wearing? No. The style is there but it’s about the substance.”
This change comes two years after a close friend of the Princess of Wales told the Times, “When she goes to the Bond premiere or is at Trooping the Colour, of course she puts on the ‘uniform’ of the role. But what was enormously frustrating and difficult for her, especially in the early days, was she was going out and doing the work she was interested in and was hugely important to her, and people just talked about what she was wearing.”
Interestingly, this change comes amid Kate being poised to grant royal warrants (a royal seal of approval), which could see sales skyrocket for the brands she favors. Royal expert Hilary Fordwich recently told Fox that Kate’s impact on sales is “valued at approximately £4 billion, or almost $5 billion, to the British fashion industry. Her wardrobe choices result in an immediate sales surge.”
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