Aw, I kind of love coming into work in the morning to find fresh Duchess Kate photos waiting for me. It makes my day! Especially when she’s wearing something somewhat interesting. While this outfit wouldn’t be all that newsworthy on another girl, I do think it’s out of character for Kate. Many of you have complained that her style is “too old” for a “girl” her age. I don’t know… sometimes her looks are very dated and ‘80s, and she’s a conservative dresser now that she’s a duchess, but I think she looks appropriate for a 30-year-old. This Stella McCartney dress is pretty cute on Kate – and it actually makes her look younger, I think. The color is nice on her, and like all of Stella’s dresses, the fit is off.
Kate was making an appearance at London’s National Portrait Gallery (for which Kate is a patroness) to attend an Olympic exhibition called “Road to 2012: Aiming High” – it was a photography exhibit featuring London’s preparations for the Olympics. Thus, Kate wore the circular necklace – said to be a piece that she already owned. Here’s more from The Mail:
The Duchess of Cambridge heralded next week’s London Olympics by wearing a distinctive gold hooped necklace today. The necklace was one from her own wardrobe, but aides said she thought it appropriate to wear it today given the Olympic theme.
Kate, 30, also flew the flag as she sported a pretty electric blue dress by British designer Stella McCartney. Her outfit was completed with black Prada heels – and her trademark blow dry.
Kate arrived at the gallery just off Trafalgar Square in a chauffeur driven car at 9.05am and was greeted by dignitaries including Dame Tanith Grey-Thompson.The Duchess actually features in the exhibition herself in a black and white photograph taken by Jillian Edlestein at a Team GB hockey event at the Olympic Park earlier this year. The Duchess also popped in to see a couple of the other exhibitions and viewed footage of a bare chested sleeping David Beckham taken by Sam Taylor wood. She also viewed the NPG’s Diamond Jubilee Exhibition on The Queen, Art and Image.
Today’s engagement was the first of several involving the Duchess over the coming weeks with an Olympic theme. Kate was visiting the gallery, of which she is patron, to view a new exhibition entitled Road to 2012: Aiming High. It is the final – and largest – part of the NPG’s three-year Olympic-themed project, which has documented the preparations for London 2012.
Working with several internationally renowned photographers, it has created a lasting record of the people who are contributing to the summer’s events, from world-class athletes and those working behind the scenes, to people living and working in the host boroughs for the 2012 Games.
The current exhibition showcases more than 100 portraits by Anderson & Low, Jillian Edelstein and Nadav Kander following the final stages of the preparations. The photographs range highly crafted images of athletes’ physical perfection and endurance to documentary-style pictures of those living and working the East of London.
Royal aides said the Duchess had been looking forward to viewing the exhibition ‘immensely’ as she is a keen photographer herself. She wrote her history of art degree dissertation at St Andrew’s University on the photography of the Alice in Wonderland author, Lewis Carroll.
In 2007, she also curated an exhibition of celebrity portraits by the photographer Alistair Morrison at a London gallery. Morrison, who has many of his portraits on display in the NPG and has worked with the Duchess on her photography, has said of her work: ‘She is very, very good, and it shows. She takes beautiful, detailed photographs.’
Before marrying Prince William last year, the Duchess worked for her parents’ mail order partyware business, Party Pieces, where her roles included catalogue design and photography.
And during her inaugural royal tour of Canada and California last year, the Duchess was often seen with her camera, taking personal pictures of their trip. The Prince of Wales is understood to be encouraging his daughter-in-law to pursue her love for photography and there has even been talk of her staging an exhibition of her work in aid of some of her charitable causes.
Gotta love the revisionist history for Kate. Now she’s being billed as some kind of major photographer who just happened to chance upon a prince and she gave up her first love – PHOTOGRAPHY – for William. Still, this seems like a nice event, and Kate looked cute, and I’m sure she had fun.
Do you want me to say anything about Royal Bump Watch? I don’t think she’s pregnant. Not yet. I do think she’s wearing a massively padded bra.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Okay, this dress is cute, but I hope Kate doesn’t get in the habit of wearing Stella’s clothes. They are aweful most of the time.
And no nude shoes. I think she looks lovely.
More like the warden in a women’s prison but the necklace is interesting in a non diamond way
i think she might have gained some weight back. her face looks so much better now.
I agree. It looks good on her. Her legs and arms look strong instead of emaciated.
The necklace (Cartier) cost £49,000 !!!!
I don’t think I could justify buying a piece of jewellry that expensive. I’d never wear it either, what on earth would you do if it broke?
to be fair if you could afford to spend 50,000 dollars on one necklace you can probably afford more than one and wouldnt care if it broke i think
sterling. not USD. Just saying….
If it broke, Cartier would repair it, of course.
The necklace is hideous, it looks like cheap costume jewellery and it cost almost £50k *sigh*
Am I missing something? Like a gigantic precious stone? Even if the necklace was platinum, I still don’t understand the price-tag.
I think it’s turned around in the close up pic but when the largest ring is facing front, it has a paved diamond.
The necklace costs 49,000 pounds. I mean..wow.
Funny how it looks like it cost $21.99 at the shopping mall. Seriously.
Nice to finally see her in something other than neutrals! On a side note, I actually had heard (before they hot married) that she was very into photography
Yeah, what Megan says. Kate Middleton did some photography ( she would have done as a part of her art degree), but it’s more along the lines of a dilettante than a real interest.
+1
I read somewhere, maybe here even, that she considered moving to New York for a few months to study with some famous photgrapher
Found it!
http://www.celebitchy.com/58857/kate_middleton_tired_of_waiting_for_prince_william_might_come_to_america/
Reminds me of that old monty python sketch….into photography. Anyone old enough to remember?
Although I know it’s not, the fabric looks cheap and polyesterish. And the sleeves give it such a dated look. Had she worn an interesting shoe instead of those old lady ones, it might have helped the look a bit. As for the jewellery, yikes.
So a no from me. 🙂
The dress may make her look younger, but her makeup continues to do nothing but age her.
is she wearing pantyhose?!?!
always!!!!! it’s a rule….
she has to, it’s literally a rule.
She looks great in colour.
I looked at that dress and thought “Blake Lively”. Very pretty.
she looks like she put a bit of weight on since the wedding and it suits her!!! she looks great and so does her hair. beautiful girl.
p.s. i wish more people our age (late twenties) dressed more like her. I’m tired of seeing my peers try to wear next to nothing in teeny-bopper clothing. Maybe it’s just my area but i don’t get the appeal of letting it all hang out all the time….
I totally agree with everything you said!
I am with you on this, I am 31,and I really appreciate her style, she is not too much conservative, she is fresh but never over the top, I really like that.
I so agree. I’m amazed at what some of the women I work with wear to the office, never mind what I see on the street as I’m walking to work.
I totally agree. She (and Reese Witherspoon) always have a sense of class and decorum. She may not be cutting edge or “interesting” but that’s not her job. And let’s face it-if she was that kind of person-she never would married William.
Totally agree!!! Love her style! She’s dressed appropriately for someone who is going to be a QUEEN one day. She should be wearing clothes that are a little more conservative than what most of us would wear, regardless if she is 30. Love Kate!
ITA about the padded bra. Unfortunately when you lose a ton of weight, your breasts disappear
I like the color of the dress, it’s nice to see her dress in colors for once. But the cut of the dress is ewww. It doesn’t fit right at all.
So she shows up in this cheap-looking, polyester-reminiscent monstrosity that is the same overall style as all of her other dresses, sporting a £49,000 necklace that I don’t believe for one second that she “already owned,” wearing her sh-t eating Cheshire cat grin, and we peasants are supposed to cheer?
F-ck off, Duchess Dude.
Haha I couldn’t say it better myself.
Please marry me, Nymeria!!!!
Awesome.
I LOVE your name! And completely agree with your point 🙂
Looks very pretty!
Are her eyebrows thinner?
Especially the right one (her left one).
I agree on the color on her, it’s really lovely. And I think the only reason she’s wearing such an obviously padded bra is because, as noted in the article, the fit is off. That and it also seems like she is slooooowly, and ever so sliiiiightly, gaining weight. Like she’s eatting an extra 150 calories a day (the equivalent of a handful of nuts.)
As for her photography, I think it would be really interesting to see her work. After all, that’s what she’s supposedly did all those years while waiting for William to submit. Especially if her photographs were really good, it would lend credence to the story that she may, indeed, have been helping her parents at their company. Even if she did flit in and out of the scene willy-nilly at Will’s whim. Also, it would be a huge draw for any of her charities, even if it’s amateur and awful. Everyone wants a piece of Kate, and pictures taken by her would do a lot more good (raise a lot more money) than a simple photo-op, if they were to hold an auction. But I don’t think they’ll make so bold a choice just yet.
My guess is Kate won’t really get a chance to shine until the Queen passes away. Nothing against the queen, I think she is amazing. I just think Kate won’t be able to really breathe and do her own thing until she’s on the next step up the ladder.
Agree with everything you said.
Waity did have a viewing of her photos (cannot remember what year).
A few pros saw them. I recall one prominent photographer was somewhat dismissive- nothing remarkable.
Another said she took “nice” photos, but would need to really work hard at it because what she showed were not worthy of holding a viewing.
Neither pro whitewashed their opinions which I am more likely to believe than any sycophants or propaganda the palace or Meddletrashians put out!
So basically she has *some* talent, but hasn’t really worked to hone it? I could see that. Then again, I know a lot of people personally that fancy themselves “great” (or in this case “keen”) photographers, and they’re not. Taking a picture of a sunset, or a flower, or a pretty landscape does not a photographer make.
I think it’s one of those things, not unlike writting (has anyone here READ 50 Shades of Grey?!) that people feel they can label themselves or others pros at without displaying any real gift or skill, and receive admiration.
That said, I still think it would be nice if she were to auction off some pictures. Could you imagine what people would pay for an “original” Kate Middleton photograph? Even if it was something my six year old nephew could do, they would go for tens of thousands, easily. Think of all the good that sycophant cash could do! The only good coming from the 50 Shades of Grey is that we get to fantasize about being whipped by Fassy 😉
Agree on the 50 Shades of Grey, I tried reading it but it was so badly written I gave up, it’s basically Bella Swan gets laid (and spanked). Try Anne Rice’s Sleeping Beauty Trilogy for something much more literary and interesting in the fetish porn line, but I don’t think most ’50SOG’ moms could really handle it.
When I actually see some of Kate’s Photographs , (other than the ones she purportedly took for the parents party company on line site) I’ll call her a photographer, until then she’s just a dabbler. She is looking better though, a few extra pound have done wonders.
Oh honey, I’ve read the Sleeping Beauty series so many times the ink on the pages has worn off, lol! I keep trying to point people in that direction too. The books were my first taste of good bdsm erotica when I was a teen and I feel so sorry for people that are getting 50 Shades as their introduction. It really is just dishwater- lacking substance, vibrancy, or anything remotely palatable. I couldn’t get past the second chapter. But then again, I checked out as soon as I read about whatsherface trying to “brush her hair into submission.” Bleck.
But I totally agree, it isn’t for the faint of heart or the homophobic of stomach. I still can’t decide which of the three I like best 🙂
Love the colour of the dress. But she should have worn her hair up. So tired of seeing the every-occasion curled hair look.
I agree. I thought the exact same thing when I saw these photos. She would have looked a lot better if her hair was in a cute pony tail.
On a side note, Stella McCartney is an awful designer. Sure, the dress is a nice COLOUR, but the rest of it looks cheap and ill fitting.
Pregnant!! At least, that’s my hunch.
me too
I think so too-her face looks “off”.
She’s going to catch hell for the price of that necklace. Lets count how many photos we have of her touching her hair!
Young Kate’s feenin for a cigarette – or a dube (which would for sure help in dealing with the public.)
I always thought that her interest in photography was limited to photographing plastic garbage for her family’s business. Although, there was a rumor once that she was going to go to New York to apprentice with Mario Testino (I think it was him ), using her royal connection. Of course, it never happened. That would have meant she would have to leave William unguarded.
Dress is OK. She always looks decent. This is a better color on her, though. Pregnant, no way.
I thought it was really cute, but then the seam…I wish the seam in front wasn’t so prominent and just sticking out. Otherwise, yeah, the more I look at it, the worse the fit gets. But it is still cute and I like the necklace a lot. The colour really looks nice on her.
Yeah, those seams are actually the darts sewn wrong-side out. Oh Stella, you are so CLEVER. Never mind the price of the necklace. I wonder how much this badly-designed dress cost just because it’s STELLA.
I like this color on her. I have mixed feelings about the dress. She seems to be wearing her clothes less fitted lately. Which is why people on bump watch are freaking out.
She does look healthier, so perhaps she is gaining weight, in order to make getting pregnant easier.
She looks adorable from head to toe.
I don’t understand why people keep saying she couldn’t possibly buy the necklace for herself? She VERY OBVIOUSLY came from money before she met Will. Look at Pipa and their brother. They’re always decked out in expensive clothes and on yachts etc. It’s very possible her parents bought it for her, or, oh my god, could it be that she actually has/had a savings and was able to treat herself?!?!
The thing is, the Middletons are into high-street fashion and not into out-of-this-world extravagance. Most of their outfits (the ones that we see anyway) fall under high-street prices; I rarely see them boast £1000+ dresses and accessories. IMO the necklace is most likely a gift.
And she didn’t VERY OBVIOUSLY came from money. You’re implying that they’re incredibly rich, which I don’t think they are. I think they’re comfortably rich, but I don’t think they have extra money to splash out for villas, yachts and country houses… they always borrow from friends.
Some estimate that the Middletons are worth about 50 million (U.S. dollars). That might fetch them a yacht or two (or a Cartier bobble). It’s certainly nothing to sneeze at.
marigold
that is a very far fetched idea by tabloids and they are not that rich in reality . the yacht belonged to her pimp , drug dealing uncle , the children went to private school by a trust fund inherited by micheal (kate’s father ). whatever their worth is ,it is not in liquid form . the worth of a company is calculated by their fixed asset like property, market value of the company , how much they earn etc. so whatever exaggerated amount tabloids report it’s not in liquid form . plus if they were that rich kate would not have excepted a huge discount on her 23,000 pounds car and except free issa dresses before marriage because someone worth 50 million can defiantly afford to buy their daughter a car worth 23 ,000 but that was not the case.
If they own a yacht we would have already found out about it y’know?
I just don’t buy that $50 million/30 million pound (sorry, no pound sign on the keyboard!) BS. Especially from a family which sells party supplies for a living.
I stand by my earlier statement: they’re comfortable enough not to worry about this month’s house bills and still be able to keep up with the Joneses (ski/Mustique vacations, private education etc.) but they can’t compete with the filthy rich and their numerous yachts/summer houses etc.
@ANGELIC 20 & GoodCapon, I was just using “yacht” as an example. I have no idea about them ever being on a yacht or owning one. I don’t KNOW what they’re worth. I just googled and it looks like they can afford a $50,000 necklace if they please. I have no idea where she got that necklace and can’t say I really care.
Are these estimates of their alleged income including any of the funneled money from the drug deals/pimping/money laundering Uncle G is reportedly involved with?
By the way does anyone have any sighting on Uncle G’s return from Italy yet?
Reportedly many ppl appear to suggest it was Uncle Dearest who was to negotiate the scandalous photos of his lazy niece’s very inappropriate activities.
That necklace can cost William’s lost hair , it is awfully ugly.
I dislike the dress…looks like a cheap polyester dress from Pennys. She needs to lighten up her style. Access to so many cute clothes and she wears this?
Looks cheap, the whole outfit.
Again, something in her whole look ruins the outfit. It could be the boring hair or the shoes, but she doesn’t look her money’s worth, nor does she look elegant. Terrible posture.
The dress should look youthful and fun, but on Kate it looks boring and dull, except for the colour. The style is the same as any of her dresses, and will be hard to dress up with different accessories since the cut is way too plain and style-specific. She looks conservative compared to how some women dress nowadays, sure, but she also looks staid and stuffy, and the colourful dress can’t disguise that. She just looks “weighted down”, like the whole outfit looks so heavy instead of being light, summery, and fun.
That necklace could be one of those they sold at Claire’s for $10. It’s ugly and it doesn’t look like it costs 49,0000 pounds.
Kate, or whoever bought her that thing, has no taste in jewelry.
A loose, slightly tousled chignon, pearl earrings, a brooch, and mocha pumps would have been better with that dress than a necklace with that design, those big boring curls, and those stark black pumps.
“on Kate it looks boring and dull”… Well, SHE makes any clothes boring and dull.
You’re right. I think it’s her, not the clothes.
She needs a ton of effort to look elegant and polished. She can’t seem to manage to look effortless in her style. She always looks like she tries so hard to look a certain way but doesn’t want to let go of the juvenile big, loose curls that have ruined many of her outfits because the hair is so big and heavy it drags everything down. She doesn’t seem to have developed her own style yet. The result is that she looks decent, but that’s it. She’s a “so-so”.
There’s something about her that cheapens clothes. She could be wearing $100,000 worth of clothes and jewels but there’s something lacking in her to truly look elegant/sophisticated/va-va-voom.
There are those who make cheap clothes look fashionable and elegant, because they have the presence and gravitas that make them look beautiful no matter what they wear. There are those who just have so much ‘swagger’ that they look cool all the time. Charlotte Casiraghi (Grace Kelly’s granddaughter) is one of those people.
Kate, on the other hand, can’t wear the proverbial potato sack and look good in it. Something’s always off with her outfits.
Great analysis.
The fabric really does look cheap…and the necklace looks costume. Is this supposed to be dressing down for the masses?
I think you can find better costume jewelry that cost less than that necklace.
And LOL at “dressing down for the masses”. 😀 Although knowing Kate and her past comments, this could truly be her way of thinking.
To be honest, if she’s going to spend a lot on clothes, which she already does anyway, then she might as well go all out and make sure she looks perfect. It’s not like she’s suddenly going to turn around and develop a style on her own that is based on moderately-priced clothing, so she can just make sure she actually looks her money’s worth. Most of the time, she doesn’t. If I didn’t know the brand of her designer stuff, I’d think they’re cheaply-priced clothing because on Kate, the clothes sure don’t look like they cost a lot.
It’s more insulting to wear expensive clothes and make it look cheap. Or buy an insanely expensive necklace that looks ugly and cheap. She can do better.
I don’t know if I like the necklace paired with that dress. It’s an interesting mix of conservative versus youthful bling. Though I understand why she chose to wore it–she was attending an Olympic themed exhibition and the circles on the necklace match the occasion. The dress is nice, nothing out of the ordinary for Kate but I do like the electric blue color!
And the Gallery should totally do an exhibition of Kate’s photography (if it’s any good)! Or some other museum/gallery in London. Kate could be involved, it would give her something to do and it would make her look busy. Proceeds could go to one of Kate’s causes or something…
She is still playing with her hair though. Either cut it or wear it up more often!
Mod, youthful and adorable… how about BLAH?
I do admit that the color is nice though. And she’s wearing a padded bra. Again. Just be proud of your bust size Kate, none of this appearing-and-disappearing-boobs act.
love the necklace, but I agree about the fit and the bra. I swear her spine is sticking out in that last picture she’s so thin
Love it, and absolutely love the colour!!
Royal Barbie goes to the National Portrait Gallery.
comparing kate to barbie is an insult to barbie. barbie had a job , career and interest , unlike duchess do little.
You are absolutely right.
My apologies to Barbie. 🙂
No, no and no. God, her constant hair fiddling is so annoying. She has great hair, we got it!!
I really think it’s nerves. She’s surrounded by people staring at her, photographing her and dissecting her every move and comment. I’d be broken out in hives if I had to live like this.
I think if she’s truly nervous she can find some other way to deal with it instead of touching her hair more than 100x in 1 hour.
It looks really rude when she’s talking to someone and she keeps on touching her hair. Sometimes she even has her whole arm blocking her face while in a conversation, just to fix that darn hair. It gives the appearance that she doesn’t really care since her attention is not completely on the person talking to her.
Even when her hair is tucked behind her ears, she makes a conscious effort to fiddle with it, tuck it behind her ears over and over, sweep it all up to tousle it when she’s simply walking shaking hands, walking a few steps, etc. and IMO that’s not insecurity, that’s just her being ridiculous.
She’s much too aware of how she should look instead of getting down to business and just carrying on. If there’s no wind blowing her hair away, there’s no need to touch it every minute or so.
If she can’t keep her hair off her face, then either cut it shorter or put it up so she’s not bothered by it. Using hair as a security blanket is really getting old. It’s nerve-wracking to be in public with all that attention, sure, but at some point she needs to act like a true professional and learn to adapt.
It’s hard to feel sympathy for someone like Kate who has lived in the media’s spotlight, and even used it for her own gain, for a long time now suddenly showing a sign of insecurity and nervousness. She could have walked away years ago if she couldn’t live like this. But this is what she and her mother wanted. This is what they worked for for years. She should deal with it and stop touching her hair all the time.
Sachi – couldn’t agree more with you about her hair. In the beginning nerves could be an excuse but she’s been doing this kind of stuff officially for a whole year now so I don’t think its nerves. This picture of her at the remembrance service last year speaks volumes I think: http://igossip.com/kate-middleton-does-remembrance-day
TUGGING on her hair like that is beyond inappropriate for a remembrance day service, and don’t even get me started on the bored look on her face.
This constant fiddling with her hair is nothing short of childish behaviour imho. There is no way she’s not aware she’s doing it and she’s perfectly capable of not doing it, she manages to keep her hands out of her hair when she’s around the queen for example.
I just think her dresses have the same 70’s style each time and it’s starting to look boring.
She looks older than 30 more mid 30’s when she stops smiling you can see.
I don’t think she gained weight, the dress has very high waist, at least 3 inches higher than her real spot. she has a broad shoulder, perhaps a padded bra, that makes her look full, but then that’s it, it closes right under the chest
Not crazy about the dress and definitely hate that ugly and over priced necklace.
I think she looks pretty and relaxed. I don’t like the stupid darts on the top of the dress, but I LOVE the color on her!! she looks great in blues…. that necklace is kind of over the top, but it’s not horrible….
Way to go, Stella McCartney. You managed to make a princess look like she’s wearing an ill-fitting dress from a cheap mall store. Kudos.
Doesn’t look horrible, but there’s nothing unique about it. But since Stella is from the UK, Waity has to rotate her stuff. Could be worse. Waity isn’t someone I’d call a fun person anyways.
49.000………….
The palace says: “It’s a piece of private jewellery”
OK.
BUT she visits “her charity” and wears such an expensive Cartier-necklace?
Sorry, is she stupid?
Everyone knows the press counts her outfit-costs! In the times of austerity!
What was she thinking?
It was “just” an appearance at an art gallery! Is she stupid?
“Can you test the, uh, smell by smelling it?”
-Duchess Dude
She makes clothes look cheap. And that cheap-looking dress and tacky necklace does NOT make her look youthful. If the dress was a couple sizes larger, Camilla would be wearing it. Kate always looks old and frumpy.
Nobody can top Carolyn Bessette as fashionable, classic “royalty.”
Agree there. Carolyn had just the opposite effect: she made everything LOOK expensive, even if it wasn’t. She had flawless taste. AND she dressed in a classic, conservative way, too.
Boring. The dress may be youthful, but it’s a silly design with those darts on the boobs. And that necklace is cheap looking for 49,000 pounds.
Waity, please call up Vicky B so she can dress you. She’s rail thin, but looks 100X better and more youthful than you.
Kaiser, did you hear William & Harry changed the name of their personal charity to include Waity? It’s now called the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry blah blah blah. She can’t even head her own charity.
I hadn’t heard that about their charity name God it was already a mouthful and when Harry gets married I suppose it will be the DQuke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of whatever foundation? Yikes.
I still can’t get over the cost of that necklace!!! It looks so cheap. For £49,000 it should freaking look it.
Love that dress! Still don’t like the eyeliner though.
The darts are inside out, it seems.
My first thought too. Isn’t the excess fabric made by darts supposed to go INSIDE the garment?
Does anyone else find it strange that the Daily Mail left out the price of the necklace? They’re usually so quick to include the prices of all of Duchess Waity’s clothing and accessories. I’m not really buying that it’s part of her “private” collection–aren’t all of her clothes part of her private collection? She mixes a lot of what she wears for private functions in her official engagements.
I wonder if the Palace talked to them after that article came out that talked about her expensive clothing…
Why can’t she wear better shoes? Her shoes are so boring always!!! The only good pair are peeptoe nude patten leathers she wears occasionally.
I love the colour of the dress but not the fit. Maybe a dress cut similarly to the Amanda Wakeley sculpted felt dress would have looked better. Simple and easy to accessorise still but not cheap looking.
Or why not wear the second Erdem dress from the Canada tour (the bright royal blue one). When is she going to bust that out again? Erdem doesn’t come cheap.
As for the necklace – I don’t personally like it but I’m pretty sure it was a gift.
I do not think it is appropriate for daytime. Not because of the cost – I would happily see a just as expensive brooch in its place (I am a total magpie) – but because of the style. Such a long and huge necklace should be an evening piece. Olympic themed or not (there will be chances coming up for her to rock that theme at an evening event).
The make up and hair ruin this outfit. On such a nice bright morning, her make up should be much lighter. Even if she kept the dreaded eyeliner she would look much fresher with a more glowing base and less harsh blush. And anything but that hair as it is.
more like: meh, yawn & awful. 🙁
Holy padded bra, Batman!!! She really shrunk in the breast area when she dropped all the weight and doesn’t look like she regained any of it except the girls. Funny how that works 🙂
Yes she pulled that allusion last summer, too. My guess is her wardrobe of padded bras is phenomenol at this point. LOL
The dress’s color and cut are great and love the necklace. Know most talk about her hair and makeup. These pics made me realize how absolutely awesome she would look with a cool short haircut and less of the raccoon eyes. If only…
She looks ok, but I don’t find her to really look just super amazing in anything she wears. I realize she’s a conservative dresser, but I’d like to see her in a casual, long, flowing maxi dress with some cute accessories, brother make up and cute sandals.
I can’t believe that nobody has said that she resembles a 60s era stewardess. There, I said it.
She really lacks Diana’s charm, glamour and charisma. These qualities seemed so effortless in Diana yet Kate seems so contrived and everything seems forced.
I don’t know if it’s the hair extensions, breast padding or the veneers, but there is something articificial about waity katy.
Kate just has a “hard” look about her that makes her seem older than she is. Probably a combination of the weight loss and how she applies her make up.
I agree with the Diana comparison — she really did seem genuine, didn’t she?
Kate would look lovely in a potato sack. The colour is great on her. As usual Stella M.’s designs are nothing special.
I don’t mind the dress at all. I think it’s lovely, except I’m not a fan of outside darts. There seem to be a lot of different opinions on here about her weight. To me, besides the massively padded bra, she looks a lot healthier and like she’s gained a couple of pounds — but maybe it’s just this particular dress.
The necklace is probably one of Princess Diana’s. I read somewhere else that she (Diana) had several pieces from that particular Cartier collection. Don’t know how appropriate it was to wear to this type of event, however.
I don’t have a problem with her and I don’t really think people are fair, a lot of the time… but God, I loathe her clothes. Seriously, a style icon? Her Erdem stuff has been really nice, her wedding dress was, but most of the time she just wears boring clothes that manage to look matronly. She’s only thirty! Not saying tarty would be at all a good look, but elegant and a *tiny* bit edgier would.
And that necklace is beyond hideous. If it was Diana’s, then that would explain it; jewellery dates like anything else, and I also suspect Diana would have worn it with more skin on show. It just doesn’t go.
People make a big fuss over her not having any advice on her clothes, and given she has so many copycats maybe it’s me, but honestly, I think she could do with a professional eye. She’s going to represent us, after all. (Though in fairness, she did mostly look good in Canada. Can only think she was taken in hand before that trip.)
Honestly,
Waity would benefit from the advice of a stylist. I think she’d get more ‘bang from her buck’ so-to-speak. She really needs some professional styling assistance.
She needs Cate Blanchette’s (sp?) stylist. Her clothes are usually a little bit unusual, really beautiful, unfussy and not remotely slutty. Remember that hummingbird-back Oscars dress?
Kate’s clothes look really provincial, somehow. Dull and safely-yet-self-conciously on-trend. And there seems so little reference to what actually suits her frame. She looks better in jeans and tops than she does in “occasion” wear.
That is by far the most boring thing I’ve seen on her yet. And that’s saying a lot.
Weird that someone would get such a close pic of her chest (2nd pic). Ick.
Re the hair – maybe hubs likes it that way. Not that that’s the only reason for a hairstyle, lol.
For someone who has no actual job, why does she always look so tired and busted? The bags under her eyes she had worked on a few years ago seem to be coming back.
The dress is nice, but it isn’t anything special. I could probably find something that looks just like it online or at a store in my city. Chelsea Clinton wore a similar (or possibly same) dress on a trip to Rwanda with her father earlier this week: http://www.clintonfoundation.org/main/clinton-foundation-blog.html/2012/07/19/letter-from-rwanda/
I made this dress in the late 60’s in sewing class, when we had to learn how to do darts and invisible zippers. It is shockingly cheap looking, with a hokey design. And I agree with others that the color is the only thing going for it.
Mod and youthful??? Looks like a granny dress to me. I can understand that she needs to look conservative while on outings but she could incorporate some funky jewellery to jazz up a simple sheath dress.
I can’t believe how unattractive this woman has become in such a short period of time. She was cute when she was younger but now at best she looks harsh, chubby, awkward, and old. She’s aging rapidly (and not gracefully either mind you) and has gained a tremendous amount of weight since the wedding. She isn’t carrying it well. Whether the media tries to mute people’s actual opinions of her or whether she pays off/manipulates them to do so is yet to be known. Either way it’s creepy how much they’ve protected her. She has the grace and elegance of a hippo and a walrus joined at the hip with a personality so stern it could scare boarding school headmasters out of their wits.