Fatherhood really suits him
Prince Harry made an unexpected style choice, from J.Crew’s Ludlow line, to introduce son Archie.
The beleaguered American retailer J.Crew got a major PR boost this month when the most famous new dad in the world was photographed wearing one of its suits. When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle welcomed their first child — a son they have named Archie — as the latest member of the British royal family and showed him off to the public in a photo shoot taken two days after his birth, the Duke of Sussex, no stranger to wearing bespoke garments from Savile Row, chose a slim-fitting suit that comes from J.Crew’s popular Ludlow line. His look was in a “geyser grey,” available as separates for $650.
Harry finished off the look with a rather conservative white dress shirt and navy-blue tie. Esquire magazine trumpeted that it was a look that “every single one of us could stand to emulate.”
The Duchess of Sussex also made a bit of a fashion statement. Her sleeveless wrap trench dress came from British designer Grace Wales Bonner, who, like the duchess, is biracial. As Vogue pointed out, Bonner “often uses her work to open up thought-provoking conversations around representation, gender politics, and black male identity.” Added the magazine, “For the Duchess to champion the work of a young Briton of mixed heritage, one who is leading a new wave of black and brown British creatives, speaks volumes.”
And what about Archie (full name: Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor)? He was wrapped in a merino wool snuggly from from G.H. Hurt & Sons, which costs $172, just over a quarter of his father’s suit. Hurt & Sons, based in Nottingham, has designed shawls for the arrival of royal babies for 70 years, since Queen Elizabeth II gave birth to Prince Charles.