She says she is “done with acting”. But the Duchess of Sussex is too clever to believe this is true. She may never grace our small screens again in an episode of Suits, but then, she has no need to. For Meghan, all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely ensemble players.
The most recent platform to give her a starring role is Variety magazine, on whose cover she features wearing a sleeveless black Giorgio Armani top, her shoulders looking preternaturally narrow in a manner that serves to emphasise her head. Lips parted, eyes skyward, her expression is one of contrived benevolence that was, perhaps, arrived at after moodboarding many pictures of the saints. A direct-to-camera gaze would have looked too fierce and pointed. Instead, Meghan’s gaze is the quintessence of “soft power”.
Much has been made of the five-figure wardrobe the Duchess is wearing in Variety’s accompanying fashion shoot, which includes a £4657 dress by the Taiwan-born, New York-based designer Jason Wu – a favourite of Michelle Obama – a $2990 Carolina Herrera dress and a $1560 green silk halterneck gown by London-based label, Galvan, one of whose four founders is married to Dhani Harrison, son of the late Beatle, George.
