Meghan’s Oprah interview dress is named fashion museum’s Dress of the Year

The black Armani costume worn by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, during her and Prince Harry’s bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey has been chosen as the 2021 Gown of the 12 months by the United Kingdom’s Style Museum Bath.

Considering that 1963, the Vogue Museum has invited a renowned figure from the manner marketplace to select a gown — or in some cases a number of ensembles — of the calendar year. The alternative, which then turns into section of the institution’s significantly-reaching collection, is intended to encapsulate the prevailing mood of manner, symbolize the earlier 12 months and seize the creativeness.

Meghan Markle’s Oprah job interview dress is named ‘Dress of the 12 months.’ Credit: Style Museum Bath

“In today’s hyper-stylised pop society, the Costume of the Year now has the potential to also be ‘meme of the year’ and we both equally latched upon Meghan and Harry’s now iconic interview with Oprah as the definitive anti-institution instant that will for good endure in the British collective consciousness,” they stated in a assertion.

“Meghan’s wrap costume by Armani, worn to showcase a divine pregnancy, framed the Duchess in black in opposition to the bountiful landscaping of Tyler Perry’s Hollywood back garden. This look now, through sheer affiliation with a viral tv minute, is firmly ingrained in our pop lifestyle psyche.”

The dress retails for $4,700. Credit: Manner Museum Bathtub

The job interview, aired by CBS in the US and ITV in the British isles in March 2021, was broadcast in an further 70 nations around the world and drew an estimated 60 million viewers around the globe.

The museum has by now put the dress on exhibit as the closing item in an exhibition termed “A Heritage of Vogue in 100 Objects.”

Major image: Oprah Winfrey interviewing Prince Harry and Meghan on March 7, 2021.