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When it comes to fashion and beauty, Kate Middleton has been taking more risks lately—although perhaps risks should be put in inverted commas. The royal had the audacity to debut a bright-red manicure while attending Easter mass at Windsor Castle earlier this year, resulting in much pearl-clutching from more conservative royal style pundits, and has been swapping out her Catherine Walker coatdresses for far more interesting pieces (take the 1995 vintage Chanel bouclé blazer she wore for an outing at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in December).
For a meet-and-greet in Nuneaton on Thursday, Kate once again threw us a style curveball, wearing a Cefinn Petra dress that, at first glance, appeared to be floral print—as much a signature of the Duchess’s wardrobe as polka dots. Look more closely, though, and the shirt dress, which retails for $493, is in fact leopard print. It’s an unusual choice for the notoriously cautious, apolitical Kate—both in terms of the pattern and the designer; Cefinn is, of course, a label masterminded by Samantha Cameron. Her accessories, on the other hand, constituted firm favourites: a pair of white stilettos by Jimmy Choo and a Mulberry bag.
For those who prefer to see the royal looking more prim and proper, Kensington Palace confirmed this week that the Princess will attend the reopening of the National Portrait Gallery on 20 June. Kate is famously a patron of the museum – posing for the cover of British Vogue in honor of the magazine’s centenary exhibition in the Grade I-listed institution. The NPG recently underwent a complete transformation in order to better represent the Britain of today, supported by the Chanel Culture Fund. Here’s hoping she plucks something from the French house’s ateliers in honor of the occasion.
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