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Tuesday

Cockburn

You can buy Melania Trump’s wedding dress on eBay for $45,000

Melania Trump’s one-of-a-kind wedding dress is on sale for an asking price of $45,000 on eBay. The ivory duchesse satin dress was worn at the 2005 wedding between the future president and first lady – and also featured on the cover of Vogue magazine, the sole instance of international model Melania appearing on a Vogue cover. Jill Biden, meanwhile, has two to her name. The Christian Dior gown was designed by John Galliano. It took over 500 hours to hand-sew 1,500 Swarovski diamonds onto its 13-foot train. Its reported original manufacturer’s suggested retail price was $210,000, but it will now be sold at a fraction of the price after being worn only a handful of times.

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Wednesday

Kara Kennedy

Will Harry and Meghan take Princess Diana’s last name?

Are Harry and Meghan set for a rebrand? According to Tom Bower, author of Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors, the couple's latest scheme is to recast themselves as Meghan and Harry Spencer, the maiden name of Harry’s late mother, Princess Diana. “What’s really interesting in the rebranding of the Sussexes is... that Meghan decided that her real objective in life was to be Diana," the author told GB News Tuesday. "Meghan went to the extent of suggesting that they should drop the name 'Windsor' and take the surname 'Spencer,' so she would be Meghan Spencer, the new Diana." https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1671397543182213121?s=20 “They’ve actively discussed this," Bower continued. "Not only by themselves but with others too.

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Thursday

Jane Coombs

A dream of a dress

In America: A Lexicon of Fashion, now at the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute, leads with a quote from Jesse Jackson: “America is... like a quilt — many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.” Odd, then, that framed above the first wall panel is a drab, blank-faced suggestion of an American flag constructed from just two rectangular pieces of faded denim. Created by Sterling Ruby as a mourning garment — a model huddles under a wearable version in the exhibition poster — “Veil Flag” (2020) sits awkwardly next to the bright patchwork skirts, dresses, trousers and jackets also on display in the first room. Yet it’s the right way to open a fashion exhibition that makes you think, not swoon.

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Saturday

Chadwick Moore

Christian Dior’s woke advertising woes

The left is really going to hyperventilate once they realize during World War Two Christian Dior, along with most French designers, made dresses for the wives of literal Nazis in occupied France. The fashion house that carries his name has come under attack for ‘racism’ and ‘cultural appropriation,’ after running an ad for its Sauvage perfume that featured overly flattering depictions of Native Americans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYyGHOwxjUY Fortunately, anyone who’d get upset by this can’t afford Dior, so the idea of a boycott never occurred to them, but the online left screamed regardless, causing Dior to remove the ad from Twitter.

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