Soon after the Duchess of Cambridge married Prince William, it became obvious that she was trying to have a “signature color,” and that color was blue. Blue for Diana’s sapphire ring, which is Kate’s ever-present engagement ring. Blue for… I don’t know, but she definitely tried to make “Kate’s signature blue” into a thing. In addition to Diana’s ring, Kate also wears other sapphire pieces from the Royal Collection or from Diana’s personal collection. Kate easily has 700 blue dresses and probably 500 blue coats or coatdresses. But sure, let’s hear about Kate making red her power color. Don’t get me wrong, I like her in red! Red looks good on her. But it’s far from her signature color.
The Duchess of Cambridge has adopted a ‘powerful’ red as her ‘go-to statement colour’ for big public events, a stylist has revealed. Kate Middleton, 39, stepped out in a £30,000 Catherine Walker coat in a vibrant scarlet colour as she hosted a Christmas carol service in London this week. The royal has also worn the statement colour for other significant events over the past year, including the launch of her Hold Still photography book, a milestone Covid-19 solo project, and an Action for Addiction event where she delivered the keynote address.
A stylist has revealed how the choice might be an indication of the mother-of-three’s growing confidence, with Rochelle White telling FEMAIL: ‘I feel that Kate has chosen red because it can come across as highly charged as well as warm. It draws the attention and catches the eye more than most colors. As red is a hard colour to pull off, Kate does it well. Red is a powerful colour and the association with it can have a strong pull and can make a statement. As Kate is seen as a fashion figure to many, when she wears this colour, I think it shows her personality and adventurous side which is very relatable.’
Is red “adventurous” when she’s wearing red Victorian-style long coats? Or did she just wear red this week because she was cosplaying a Christmas present?? I don’t get this either: “As red is a hard colour to pull off, Kate does it well.” Most people can find a shade of red which suits them. I prefer wearing dark blue-reds or burgundy-reds, but I once had an orange-red sweater and whenever I wore it, I got compliments. I’m just saying, most people can find a red shade which works on them and complements their coloring. Red is one of the easiest colors to pull off, unlike yellow or lime green. Anyway, just more of the same. Kate is perfect because she…wore a red coat.
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Red? For a Christmas event?
Groundbreaking.
hahahahhaha
I read this in Miranda Priestly voice and screamed.
But seriously, I didn’t think red was a hard color for most people? Even redheads look good in tones of red nowadays.
I hate doing this every time one or the other is involved, but Kate sure did seem to take a liking to red after her sister-in-law’s last appearance…but also, like you said, red for Christmas isn’t really groundbreaking.
red is my best color and im no supermodel
Girl! I was over here screaming at my phone. Kopy Kate did not make red her “signature” color until Meghan killed it in that red dress.
Yeah, it’s not hard to figure out. I look good in blue-based reds and I long ago learned what that looks like vs other reds. Once that’s settled, the ‘hard part’ is over lol.
She’s been wearing red at major events for years. At least back to 2011. I don’t think this is Meghan cosplay. If it’s cosplay at all, it’s Diana. (Including the hospital steps baby reveal outfit) Those red outfits have always stood out to me because a)red is my favorite color and b) they are usually the only outfits of hers I like. She’s had some great red dresses. Especially before she went sister wife. Now did she a,ways rock them? No. But it wasn’t the dresses’ fault. And, despite what the expert says, red is not a difficult color to pull off, except maybe in lipstick or hair color. Now yellow is a hard one to wear.
I wondered how fast a “KopyKate” comment would come up comparing these two women, as if Kate is copying anyone OR as if Meghan was the first to wear it.
LMAO @Emily Kate is almost always copying someone. She doesn’t have an original thought in her head.
Is the red copying Meghan? I don’t really think so, she has worn head to toe red like this before Meghan, but I think she is definitely channeling Diana.
I cackled at this! You nailed it.
Red.. See Leticia of Spain, she been and continues to rock red effortlessly every time.
Mich…..absolutely! Leticia of Spain rocks! And she’d NEVER wear a dress that stuck to her legs with static electricity like Kate, in the first pic…..
Doesn’t anyone have the balls to tell this woman to stop buying clothes you do not need. People are noticing the excess and not in a good way.
Are you sure they’re noticing…there are no protests in the streets against these leeches. They will continue their ways.
Including the typo in the article where they quoted the cost of the red coat at £30,000 rather than £3,000….
I was just about to ask did that coat really cost 30 thousand pounds or was that a type o? Because at 30 thousand she better own a quarter of the company. So therefore I think it has to be 3 thousand.
She looks good in red. Hat’s off to anyone who can pull-off solid red head to toe. I’d look like Mrs. Claus.
Lol she really does look good. Love the red hat with a touch of purple.
She looks like The Riddler in that get-up.
@ K, thank you for that as I almost lost my coffee all over the place except my mouth!!!!
@ mia girl, I also read your response as Miranda Priestly as well!!
I cannot wear any red whatsoever. Not even red nail polish. It drains all of the color out of me.
30,000??? I thought it was 3,000!!! That has to be a typo
It’s definitely a typo. (I actually clicked through to the DM article & they say 30,000 at the top but 3,000 later on.) I don’t think it was an accident, though. They mention the prices of several of her other clothes & accessories. I think they’re back to drawing attention to her spending now that Meghan’s slipped their snare.
Yep! Just wrote essentially the same thing below. More chain-yanking.
Sorry, also wrote the same thing above. Should have scrolled first!
I agree. No way that coat was ever $40,000. $4,000 I could easily believe (particularly since she has two – one red and one black).
£30,000 Catherine Walker coat that looks like a Dynasty ripoff? Are you serious? What a damn embarrassment that all this woman does is get propped up by her clothes and her hair-dos.
Ok now that I think about I absolutely don’t believe this is the real price. Maybe someone is fucking with her by reminding her they could start their magic-tabloid-wardrobe-math any time they wanted?
Ah, DM math. I remember when Meg first married and they squawked about an expensive outfit. And like 80% of the cost, if you actually read the article, was jewelry she’d gotten for her wedding. A bracelet or earrings or something.
I love red, and the shades of red that I love (bright fire engine/Christmas red) are super popular this season. But I don’t think wearing red is that hard or groundbreaking?!? It is pretty common in the winter lol. She does look nice in red and other deeply saturated colors. But that is all there is…nothing about the importance of the work she did while wearing those colors. For instance, she could have funded a food bank for a month with $30,000 instead of spending it on one coat
And yet Kate is the only woman photographed wearing the color of the holiday? Hmmm.
Lizzie EXACTLY!!!
Red is one of my favourite colours. I don’t think it’s hard to wear but different shades suit different skin tones, like with anything.
Maybe it’s not so much that it’s hard to pull off, as people feel self conscious in it. It is eye catching. Red looks good on Kate but it seems that most warm, autumnal colours do. That’s not something specific to her though.
So a 40 something woman gets praised for wearing red, the bar is set low with this one.
THIS. Like it’s hard work.
Forget her clothes, can someone do something about her unhinged jaw???
Red is now her signature colour because Meghan looks amazing in red? LOL.
Yep, exactly. Meghan got too much attention while wearing red, and so it goes. And of course there’s nothing else about her to report on, so …
This! They just took out some old pictures of Kate to show that she wasn’t copying Meghan who wore red several times. Just to “prove” SHE-wore-it-first, not Megs
Most times she’s worn red was because it was Christmas. This DM piece is bonkers.
The DM is always bonkers but she’s always worn lots of red. There have been whole articles on it. I don’t know why they’re even acting like it’s groundbreaking either for her or as a color. As I was looking back, I saw her in a red gown in 2011 and, yes, it’s been ten years, but boy did she look happier and healthier back then. It’s not time that’s done a number on her but rather life choices.
“Her growing confidence” …she is 40. The infantilizing is nuts
@ isabel, the only thing that is growing on this woman is the number of trips she is making to the plastic surgeon and the amount of crap she is injecting into her face.
Growing confidence my ass…..
Yes, that pic of her in the red pullover and skirt – yikes. There’s no retouching and it definitely looks to me as though her face is sagging from having filler in it that’s now been absorbed. It’s just weird looking – especially the strange creases underneath her cheeks.
I don’t know, the pic might still be re-touched, just maybe not quite as much. But I think the obvious sagging is because she’s NOT smiling. And maybe that’s why she always has a manic open-mouth smile — because it works like a mini-face lift.
The growing confidence stories should have stopped after a couple years of marriage, five at the most. 10 years, almost 40, and still growing the confidence to… wear red? Ask five basic questions? Not give speeches? This narrative does her no favors. Which one does though, honestly.
I’ve always thought that was a weird topic. A commenter trying to praise Kate once posted ‘peak confidence!’. I was like what does that even mean? Maybe it’s a UK thing that’s not translating to me, IDK. I would think you would praise competence but perhaps she has no competence so they are using a word that sounds similar. I will view Kate a s lifelong intern, she will never be competent.
“Growing confidence” my butt. She is nearly 40. She had been in the royal family for 10 years and was doing the most preparation ever for the 10 years before that.
The way they are desparate for people to see Kate as a fragile baby.
30,000?!?!?!? Was that a typo?? It’s not 3000?? Holy moly. That’s insane. That has to be a typo, right?!??!
anyway….Kate showed up at a Christmas event and wore red, yawn.
Someone asked in the other thread if we thought Kate considered whether she was good at this royal gig or not…how can she not think she’s good when she gets article praising her because she wore red to a christmas concert??
The coat was $3,000 BP or $5,000 US. Take with a grain of salt, this info is from the DF.
First of all….Kate dosen’t wear her clothes…they wear her…and ALL that bright red looks garish on her to me..
Her style choices are so dated to me which is unfortunate
Who else wore red recently, huh, SWF?
Was it a new coat that she spent £30,000 on before Christmas with everything else going on over there? Between all the allegations around the Royal family from charity and citizenship fraud to rape of a trafficked minor.. they really live in their own little greedy bubble. I feel bad for the British citizens who have to pay for all of these scandals, legal fees and vanity projects while they are struggling.
I agree on the red being a color everyone can find a shade that suits them, but we all know why she had to have an event and something red..
I thought she didn’t want to draw attention? wtf is Duchess Do Nothing smoking? I don’t do speeches because it pulls attention but I will wear read because it draws attention? Holy hell, two faced shows her real power, contradicting herself on the same day.
To be fair*, she can hold attention more effectively with an outfit than when speaking.
*and snarky, fine
We can also ask the same of this so-called stylist Rochelle White, WTF is she smoking too? Most people can’t pull of red? Who? Because even my grand fur babies look gorgeous in red with all of their different sweaters.
Red is a hard color to pull off my ass! These quotes by this so-called stylist is hard to read and actually believe!!
Kween Do-Nothing might single handedly bankrupt The Monarchy!! No wonder Chaz wants to slim it down, no one can afford her upkeep!!
They try so hard to make fetch happen.
Wow, in that last picture, I’m shocked by how saggy her face is.
She is 39.. by the time she is 50 she will look like Camilla does now. I see references to her getting “her face refreshed” but unedited or improperly lighted photos sure make her look tired and rough.
Smoking, tanning, and strict dieting will do that. It’s having the same effect on her sister. Meanwhile both of her parents look very good at their ages.
Carole has had surgical intervention at this point and she uses fillers as seen in the recent event. Mike is the only one likely to be ageing naturally.
CarolE is fully lifted. Her face was rough in the early years comparatively.
Yeah, I almost feel petty saying this (not really because she was nasty and allowed further nastiness/smearing to Meghan), Kate is taller, thinner and about 15 years younger than me. My face doesn’t have layers like that. Never had work done either.
This is all she is and wants to be. Kate wants to be praised her her appearance imo. Not for any substance. She actively appears to avoid presenting herself as a person with something real to offer. Instead she is an image of anti aging photoshop, expensive sister wives dresses, fake her and cosmetically altered facial appearances to name a few.
She does not want to care about more. Her family knows this and her cousin spilled the beans years ago confirming this.
So, this is her latest. She wears Red! How daring! What a trend setting woman of power and confidence!
I suspect that Kate, much like Melania, knows she does not measure up in the smarts department so avoids situations where it is obvious, at least as much as she can. Also like Melania her looks are about the only interest she has. Does she read books, knit, play poker, anything? No, just her face and how clothes fit are her world.
Damn, Baldymort looks like he cant hide his disgust in that last photo. Chin Up Big Willy, your tax payers/ peasants are paying a lot of money for this tripe. At least look like you want to be there.
(LOL. When your mom forces you to visit her family you cant stand)
Her face in that 2nd picture? Is it just me or does it look like it’s… melting?
No photoshop in that one?
Klassy Kate. Even though red looks good on everyone, she overdoes it as usual.
This really bright red is honestly not a great color on her. Deeper burgundy is better, I think, or she needs different makeup or hair color with the bright red. As is, her current makeup+bright red makes her face and hair look really washed out and blah. Kate may not be a jaw dropping beauty but she’s not bad looking—she should be able to look better than in some of these photos.
Agree. Wondering if she’s being punk’d. Most reds age her looks. She could maybe pull off an orange/pumpkin color when tanned. She can pull off the burgundys/plums or cerulean/royal blues. Personally, I think she looks terrible in green-except for maybe the darker shades. It’s hard for Kate when compared to Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, who looks pretty great in all colors.
BRB, adding “looks good in red” to the top of my resume🤣🤣🤣
This just emphasizes how little she accomplishes otherwise, it’s almost intentionally insulting. Like, sure, she doesn’t speak well, she avoids working, her main area of research involves shaming parents, but…boy can she wear red! That’s not easy, you know, that’s a skill.
Red is her “look at MEEE” color. She wore it around Meghan often, esp noticeable since M was told to be less or whatever and basically wore beige/browns/navy to group things all the time.
She wore red at the event when Willy was all about his scarf ignoring M. she wore red at the Commonwealth service thing that was the last sussexit event. There were others I can’t remember right now.
Btw, I realized why it her clothes look bad she oddly proportioned – wide sharp shoulders, long tube body, a-line flare at calf. This silhouette isn’t attractive but it brutally highlights her thinness. And that’s all that matters to her. It’s a sort of anorexic way of thinking (sorry to say it!?) that nothing looks at good as thin thinner thinnest. Her clothes make it clear that she’s a 5’10″ish woman with a waist that’s…22″? Hips maybe 28″? I’m sorry to speculate like this but I think it explains the baffling clothing. The designs put volume where it won’t matter, like below thigh or hip. The clothes show that in the thinnest contest in Kate’s brain, competitive kate always wins. It’s sad.
IDK what’s going on with her but I cannot remember her wearing a coat that is not skin tight. Weird right?
I doubt it would let me post a link here but to confirm your point google Kate Middleton bikini. There’s one shot of her walking on the beach with William where you can see her extraordinary torso – extraordinary because it’s post children and not an *ounce* of flesh on it. It looks plastic – most probably because it’s been lipo-ed and tummy tucked. Definitely not natural at any rate. The contrast between the shots of her pre marriage on the boat with Willian in a white bikini is sad. In the latter she looked amazing. Athletic, strong, sexy. Not now.
@the hench, I googled it 👀👀😯.
I…hm… Look, she’s very tall, long and lanky. I’m told by obgyns no less that childbearing is easier when you’re tall bc the extra length, esp if you’ve got it in the torso, means there’s more room for the baby. So less stretching out. (Babies are going to avg 5-10lbs no matter if mom is 4’11” or 6′ and those extra inches make a difference.)
Anyway, with that said, there’s no skin pooch on her. There’s nothing. She’s got a lovely athletic, inverted triangle physique but she’s starved it down like…
You know, I’m very short and envy height. Tall friends say they see short as small and dainty. They feel mannish. Maybe Kate feels like weight gain would push her from enviably thin to lurch.
Idk. I’m going to stop getting into this woman’s head and go eat a peanut butter sandwich 😅
Calling Hold Still a “solo” event is a reach. Sure, PWT wasn’t involved, but the implication is to make it seem like she did more than she did.
Notice how the rest of the family wore drab colours. I’m sure they got the order from KP to NOT outshine the Duchess of Red Coats and Sausage Curls.
Nothing to do with Meghan wearing red of course. Nothing at all.
So, what exactly is the statement that Can’t is making when she wears red?
Catherine wore red before and didn’t really get complimented for it. At least not like this. Then Meghan wore that red cap dress on there 2020 Farewell Tour to the festival event with Harry and looked absolutely stunning. Those photos IMO were as iconic as the under the umbrella in the rain photo. Since then when Catherine wears red the media acts like it’s a groundbreaking achievement. She certainly has worn red more and definitely to more high profile events since Sussexit.
Kate wore red when snubbing Meghan at the Commonwealth Service, complete with a dumb little hat. That’s all I can see when she wears red. This particular shade does look good on her. That one made her look ghastly and pale as well as bitchy.
Most female politicians, almost every First Lady, especially Nancy Reagan, has red as their signature color. There’s a reason it’s called power red. Not many people do symbolic dressing so if she is finally trying to settle on a look/ color that she can attribute to herself, instead of co-opting others, then sure, go for it!
Also, it’s funny to juxtapose this article – Kate’s making a power statement in red, so regal! – with the one from the concert event – Kate’s staying silent to avoid drawing attention to herself, so regal!
I’m surprised these royal commentators don’t give themselves whiplash trying to project increasingly ridiculous and sometimes contradictory ideas onto the blank canvas that is Kate. She’s a powerful CEO (but she knows her place in the heirarchy), she upholds the inane traditions of the royal family ( but is so down to earth and middle class), and she is a superstar ( but avoids drawing attention to herself).
I always associate Power Red with Nancy Reagan. She was nearing 60 when she first became first lady. So it fits. We all know Kate loves geriatric fashion
But on Nancy Reagan it was a power red. She had confidence and pride. When Kate tries out a “power color” she hopes to make her “signature,” it looks like more cosplay to me. “See I’m wearing red! I’m a grown up now!!”
Also at any given awards show with a formal dress code, how often do we see red? (A lot)
Red is hard color to pull off for most people. I dont think I own a single red item of clothing lol. I can get behind Maroon and Pink but bright red is something that shouldn’t be wore all the time and should be paired with other colors. Pops of red look good but head to toe red is just not a good look.
Kate has doesn’t have any personal or authentic style. She picks a coat, dress, hat, and basic pumps that are all the same shade. She doesn’t ever stray out of that simple combo and its boring. I personally think she looks better in pants too. Wearing pant suits would be a better power move than picking coat dresses as your signature style.
It’s not like it’s one of the colors in the flag or anything.
It doesn’t matter what colour Kate raises up to HRH Kate status, she’s a crashing bore whose focus appears to be focused on a fit so excruciatingly tailored to within a quarter inch of its life, that everything ends up looking fussy and less-than. And I’d re-think those precious hats if I were her.
Is this stylist aware that people wear red all the time??
She’s been arraigning photo op’s for 10 years so I would think you could pick any color from the rainbow and find multiple times she’s worn it. This is a really dumb statement they are trying to make. Instead try to find one picture where she is actually chic. Go on, I’ll wait.
So she’s a superhero because she wore red for Christmas. Great. Also, her long hairstyle is no longer suiting her, in my opinion, because it looks too young and high-schooly for a woman approaching 40. I think she’s worn that long hair for the last 20 years. She knows what to do. Just take out her scrapbook of Meghan’s hairstyles over the years and choose one. Isn’t that how this Copy Karen works? Revile her sister-in-law and then stalkerishly adopt something Megan has done or worn before? I can’t wait for William to divorce her.
Oh please, even Taylor Swift isn’t that obsessed with the color red. This is pathetic.
Red isn’t difficult to “pull off.” Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, pulled it off just fine last month on Veterans Day in New York City.🙄
So one of Kate’s skills is “really pulling off wearing the color red.” The bar has been set very low for Kate.
Ahem older women tend to wear red as pastels make them very washed out. I’m going to try and beware colour runs. If Khartoum gets any thinner she’ll snap in two like a twig. Could she be dying of a fatal disease . Would explain the Constant Middletons. I’ve never heard Ma speak. Suspicious.
Kate apparently is getting all the credit for the choir event by her devoted fans. No mention of anybody else.
So kate wore red because it “draws attention” but didn’t make a speech because she “didn’t want to be centre of attention unlike Meghan” lol. Literally the same publication on the same freakin’ day lol.
Anyway earlier I said that even Pippa looked nice because her look was more simple and effortless, and she looks more comfortable with herself which made her look quite pretty. But in comparison, Kate looks like she reeks of desperation. The fact there’s an article written by their fav mouthpieces goes to show just how tactical the outfit choice was. The whole point was kate needs to be centre of attention and when you don’t have a personality or charisma, just wear something eye catching. I wouldn’t be surprised if kate told Pippa to wear a dark colour, just so she could stand out.
It doesn’t help when there’s nothing between your ears, either, or cannot face an audience.
I hope meghan’s stylist find the most horrible colour in the world and gave it to meghan for at least 3 occassions.
Lets see if Notmeghan will copy it.
Dont worry about meghan thought, she can pull any colour and make it work.