Posted on 12/05/2017 12:52:22 PM PST by drewh
Sorry, Ivanka—there can be only one American princess, and right now vshe’s on the other side of the pond.
Markle is the fashion industry’s newest muse, in much the same way the Middleton sisters were nearly seven years ago. According, again, to the Times’ Vanessa Friedman, Marklemania has already started. Every outfit she wears inspires crazed levels of imitation. Magazines are already using Markle as a peg in style headlines. The coat she wore during her official engagement announcement crashed its brand’s website. Markle, Friedman notes, will “unquestionably be the most desired guest for any brand” at London Fashion Week this winter.
Every day features a new Markle wedding dress fanfic piece written with the help of a bevy of designers and speculation. Will she pick Jenny Packham? Oscar de la Renta? She’s already described her perfect dress, says ABC (she actually didn’t describe anything specific at all). Whatever Markle picks, people will go apeshit over it.
Ivanka and Markle have interacted before. Markle, like Ivanka, used to run a lifestyle blog. Hers was called “Tig.” While it was deleted this past April, old entries are still available via the Internet Wayback Machine. Markle actually interviewed Ivanka for her blog in 2015 (over email) but was liberal with praise, calling Ivanka “staggeringly beautiful” and “incredibly savvy and intelligent.” “I always remember Ivanka being different,” Markle wrote. “She wasn’t dancing on tables as a teenager or releasing pop albums. She wasn’t running amuck publicly, swearing and being smacked with DUIs.” Markle wrote that she and Ivanka had made plans to get drinks the next time they were both in New York City, noting that she’d order what Ivanka ordered, so intense was her desire to emulate her success.
But perhaps Ivanka would rather have what Meghan is having. “I’ve never wanted to be a lady who lunches,” Markle wrote in 2015. “I’ve always wanted to be a woman who works.”
Ivanka’s widely panned book, called Women Who Work, was released in 2016.
There’s something uniquely 2017 fever-dreamy about the divergence of Ivanka and Markle’s fates. Markle, a working actress who once held a briefcase on Deal Or No Deal, gets to retire from the thornier parts of politics and into a life of a princess. Meanwhile Ivanka, the telegenic heiress of the man behind The Art of the Deal has found herself queen of the frogs.
that chick is greasy and looks dirty..even after 3 kids, Ivanka makes her look like a pile of inner tubes...
That makes sense. You’re right about the big coats.
lol@ “they gossiped till 1 AM”...thats so how they act
“She wasn’t running ‘amuck’ publicly”
Markle wrote that? Did she mean “amok”? Yeah; she’s a genius.
Why do you hate the Trump family so much?
Over/Under on how many years the marriage lasts?
7/5
Ivanka is a graduate of Wharton, happily married, and a very successful business woman
What has the stupid actress ever done?
the rumour is that Kate feels that Meghan is taking away the shine from her twins, so she’s gonna be her ‘frienemy’..and then she aligns with Horse Face wife of Charles! oh the drama
I was going to say “4.”
lol...i love the “bloids”...my guilty pleasure.
Meghan Markle is Prince Harry’s revenge on the Royal Family over how they treated his mom.
could be, wonder how her majesty feels about having a 1/4 black heir to the throne...
“Yeah and Melania wishes she had arms like Michelle Obama.”
Haven’t stopped laughing about this yet....
Markle did graduate from Northwestern University. She majored in international relations and theater.
Her IQ is probably at least 50 points higher than Harry’s. I don’t see her enduring marriage to him and the strictures of the Royal Family longer than 10 years, max.
A divorced, unknown Hollywood starlet that is in her thirties?
She just got really lucky to catch the prince.
How does she compare with Ivanka?
I am guessing Newsweek is run by ABC news.
She’s a two big actor that studied theater and managed a second baccalaureate in IR
I ain’t impressed. Ivanka graduated with a BS in Econ cum lauded from Wharton
Thank you. I never followed the "Royals" but started reading the threads here on FR and thought Markle was not attractive.
Now I see she is pregnant I know why she was allowed to marry Harry. She used her skills (she probably learned how to suck-start a school bus) to get him near her then got herself knocked up. To keep the scandals from destroying the Royal Family the Queen had to let her marry Harry.
“Markle wrote in 2015. “I’ve always wanted to be a woman who works.””
Anyone looking at her can tell that this calculating woman has worked the streets and knows all their angles and has been many times around the block. Ivanka’s a princess compared with this actress with the hungry look.
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