PR disasters thread 4

[AtIusvue]

One stop shop for all As ever, Archewell, Meg n Harry disasters

Haha. It must have put the designer in a quandary - accept publicity from his dresses being worn at a high profile event v them being worn by women with less than supermodel height and shape which did no favours to either the women or the dresses. 🤷‍♀️

Goodness me @Atlusvue that second picture is not a great look.

For those saying don't criticise her appearance - I do sort of see what you are saying. I wouldn't like anyone to critique me even when scrubbed up as best I can 😂) BUT the difference is I don't go to things where it obvious you are going to be / want to be photographed. I positively eschew photographs.

I do think M's dress looks like it was a loaner. & , and be in no doubt I think she has a nice figure FWIW if anything. She doesn't have a catwalk model figure. Does that matter? not one jot. She's a good looking woman who can look great. But if even I have learned this , to echo @jeffgoldblum , I am sure she can - if the photograph of the model says "model is 6 foot 1 and wears a size 6 " believe them. Not everything suits everyone. But if you know your shape and size you can find something to make you look good. But that takes more than just accepting any expensive dress given / loaned to you.

Meghan looked beautiful at that event, she is an absolutely stunning woman.

She rarely dresses well though. That look was her best formal look in recent years, but it could have been even better. I'd love for her to be dressed by a stylist who absolutely knows what they are doing.

It was a big departure from her usual aesthetic - cool California, laid back chic. But then, so is her recent SM posts for As ever. Since the beginning it's been generally barefoot, cool California vibe. Her most recent posts seem to be trying to channel a more old style Hollywood glamour (Breakfast at Tiffany's). A change of direction or just unsure of what the brand actually is? Or trying to branch into a new demographic?

I don’t think it’s a style choice she thought through. It was just a dress that was available for free, through a connection of Tina Knowles.

I think that’s the theme of her dressing…..what she can have on loan/gifted and will make it work. Many of her looks have been items from shoots/from her royal days.

Meg seems to avoid at all costs, paying for things herself.

She should wear halter necks as they look fabulous on her and make the most of her toned shoulders and upper arms. Her evening wedding dress was one of my favourites looks on Meghan.
Personally, I really don't think the scraped back hair and tight bun works. She's lost the softness in her face and the thickness in her hair. I think she's trying for elegance but it just doesn't suit her.

Agreed on both points.

I think soft waves or classic old Hollywood curls would have tied the look together, making her appear more polished and glamorous. The tight bun only made her features look harsher, and with all the flyaways, it ended up looking messy anyway. Her makeup is nice but a bit plain. I would have loved to see her doing a bombshell look with a cat eye or bold lip.

The difference between mannequin and wearer photos is always so disheartening. Most couture pieces look stunning on a mannequin but fail on your everyday woman. In Meghan’s case, the dress was clearly designed for someone with a fuller bust, tiny waist, and curvy hips.

In a way, it’s almost refreshing that it’s not made for a more willowy model—but that’s not Meghan’s shape. Honestly, I feel for her; they really did her dirty. The bust is gaping, clearly made for a bigger chest, and the midsection is so tight it’s creating bumps where there are none 😞 It was a lovely dress as well, just not a good fit for her.

By contrast, the Oscar de la Renta bird dress was absolutely stunning on her, as was, of course, her evening wedding gown. She has great shoulders and should show them off more with a flattering halter neckline.

I completely agree ., I loved the Stella McCartney dress .
Surely Meghan had some couture evening wear from her time as a Royal that could be used even if tweaked ?

@Mylovelygreendress @EmpressSisi @Butteredtoast55 and others. I do agree . M can look fabulous. I thought she carried off the Oscar de la Renta bird dress brilliantly. I suspect she has more day wear from her brief WRF times than evening things , so not terribly much to choose from. She's reworn the dress bit of the red Carolina Herrarra dress. But from what it appears (and that's just to me - I don't know) she does somewhat appear to have her head turned by an expensive dress, whether it suits her or not. That isn't style IMHO. So eg when Sharon Stone wore a white shirt and a long skirt to the Oscars. I'll bet a pound to a pint of oranges that wasn't the most expensive outfit - but I personally thought she looked great.
Unless she is saving it because "Royal Wedding Day" I think she should crack out the Stella McCartney dress. I thought she looked great in that. Or dip her hand in her pocket and get Stella to do one for her in a different colour., and another similar. But then that comes back to @Atlusvue 's point. How much is she prepared / able to spend of her own money on red carpet style gowns. I just don't know.

Looks like a heavy draft excluded lined curtain

I wonder if it was conditional she wore the dress in order to be invited to the event. It certainly wasn’t a coincidence that she wore the same designer as the host - that would have been carefully strategised in the event planning.

Gosh, on first glance I thought the dress was not bad - one of her better red carpet looks, albeit as usual creased (I don’t know why this always seems to be the case with Meghan). But when you look closer the fit is really bad - it’s even more stark when you see how the dress is supposed to look on the mannequin. It’s an awful advert for the dress if the designer lent it for free.

Meghan is a very attractive woman with a good figure so it’s just bizarre she seems to find it so difficult to dress in things that flatter her.

There don't seem to be many photos of her INSIDE the party. Did someone check her photo permission slip? 😄

Saw a reel with this in . Someone sneaking footage.

Do you know I agree with you. If she just had dresses which suited her figure she would look fabulous. She can look good.

But it does make me think as @Atlusvue alluded to - the money isn't there so she'll take a free / loaned expensive dress any time.

I may very well be wrong , and I very well may be. But if she had enough money / the will / ability to spend it I can't help feeling she could look better. I know she can. I've seen it. Why not just phone Stella McCartney ? or Dior or or or.

I think it was said that when M married H she didn't "get" that the WRF can't accept freebies & one of her aides at the time had to say she couldn't write to the likes of Dior and other luxury brands to ask for things she could wear to advertise their wares. Well she can now. So either get something which suits her or pay for a flattering dress.

It's almost (vicariously ) frustrating because she is a nice looking woman. She just needs to (formal dressing) get a better handle on what suits her. & that isn't necessarily the price tag.

I agree too @elessarand @BasiliskStare. When I first saw the dress I thought it was an improvement on some if her other formal outfits post RF ( red dress horror comes to mind) but studying it closer you can see how badly fitting it is . It’s not her fault she doesn’t have a model figure so she needs tailoring.
Meghan does casual ( jeans and white shirt ) really well and she is attractive so it’s disappointing she gets it wrong so often .

I don’t think she’s got a good figure, she’s skinny, but her legs are like twigs, a strange body shape, no bust, I actually think she suited having a bit more meat on her bones.
the clothing she chooses just doesn’t suit her, even that beautiful ODeLaR bird dress looked bizarre on her, too short I think to carry it off and the legs/shoes looked weird

I think she's a very attractive woman with a good figure.

But everyone needs to pick the styles that suit them, if they want to look their best. And for certain clothes (and at a certain level of big event/public scrutiny) then you're going to need to have stuff properly tailored to fit you.

Personally, I'm never going to be as good looking as Meghan. And God knows I don't have a perfect figure, and I don't go around in tailored clothes all day. But if I was going to a big event like that, I'd make sure my clothes fitted properly.

I think she wore the dress to advertise the brand given the 15% theme of the party. I doubt she had much of a choice and couldn’t say no.

I have seen video of her at the gala, she looks so awkward and wooden, and yet there is an air of arrogance as she is posturing.

The dress is dreadfully made, there is close up of the hem doing the rounds on SM, it could have been stapled up last minute, it looks that bad. I think it was stitched while it was on her.

The hem is dreadful, the designer must be embarrassed, considering he was an unknown before and now his moment in the limelight is for a dress that is really badly put together.

It's very tame compared to his normal. I gather this is now his relaunched career after an initial start.

According to the DM Meghan was not listed on the VIP guest list, the suggestion being she was a very last minute attendee, which would totally explain the state of the dress she wore.

I don't personally think she's hugely attractive, or has a particularly good figure. But she can look fabulous, and it's so strange she so rarely does. She seems very keen on looks that really don't suit her at all, which was maybe understandable she first became famous, but surely she must also look at photos of herself and realise she doesn't match the image she had in her head? I would think lots of people would love to have thousands of photos of themselves (that nobody else gets to see!) to show what they really look like and so they can really work out what works for them. But she continues to pick looks, styles and colours that do absolutely nothing for her, despite having loads of examples where she looks absolutely stunning.

I don't even know if it's lack of funds though as she was the same when she was in the RF, when presumably she had literal palaces of stylists and seamstresses at her disposal. I can't imagine there are many designers who want to give her clothes now though as she always makes them look very cheap and poorly made. The designer of this piece should be furious, I wouldn't go near them if they feel this is an acceptable red carpet look.

That makes complete sense.

We should have known with the flower girl dress debacle, that last min/crappy alterations is perfectly fine in a megs world.

Got the designers name out there but everyone is shocked at how badly fitting the dresses were. Not sure it's great PR!