Meghan's dress and the hidden detail in Harry's suit: why the Sussex chose the emerald green to stage their goodbye

"A woman is like a tea bag.You don't know how strong it is until it is in Aguas Calientes ".The phrase is attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt but has gone around the world placed next to the photo of a teenager Meghan Markle in the yearbook of his institute.And on the day he has said goodbye forever from his condition of real highness (with an act in Westminster, accompanying her husband Harry) has gained special meaning.Meghan is already free and an interesting message dyed green has been left.No one dresses from head to toe with a resounding emerald and puts a layer if he wants to go unnoticed.

Dressed in a dress of the New Zealand designer based in London Emilia Wickstead, the styling did not miss detail.Wickstead has been known for years as the “good” firm that women from the British high society resort (without going any further, has dressed Kate Middleton or Markle herself in her Australian tour with Harry).However, for a couple of seasons he has explored what in his own words defines as "a feminist fairy tale".This is how she described her collection for spring/summer 2019, which dedicated to "women in the foreground" with a marked shoulder aesthetic and two -pieces clearly eighties.Meghan's green dress belongs to the autumn / winter 2020 collection of the brand (it is a version of the look 40 of the parade, which was presented at the Royal Academy of Arts) that endowed women with a more theatrical character, inspired by theWardrobe of Dolores del Río, the Charismatic Second Woman of Cedric Gibbons, the Irish-American art director who worked in the film industry during the 1930-1950s.Del Río was, like Markle, a woman with countercurrent: the first actress jump from Latin American cinema and achieve success in Hollywood.

Markle has completed the styling with a headdress of the Scottish William Chambers in the same emerald color and the Demi bag, of the designer based in New York Gabriela Hearst, as a whole.Impeccable accessories without a doubt but the detail that has not gone unnoticed has been the combination of its green tone with the Harry jacket lining, which a breath of wind has left for a moment in sight.Choreographed until the end, with this public act they ended a stage of their life making it clear that they are together in everything.

The color of the future

The choice of green has not been casual.In the same way that the millennial pink has been associated with the generation of young people who aroused a new wave of feminism, green is the new clothing code transformed into a symbol of protest and represents the hopeful and optimistic perspective of adolescents activists of theZ generation, something very necessary when thinking about the future.As Jane Boddy, responsible for color in the WGSN Trends Laboratory commented in Vogue Spain, green is a color that defines our time, connects with nature and the preservation of the planet.Issues that have become great concerns on a global scale and that the fashion industry has finally decided on the front.

Green is the color that synthesizes the fight and message of Greta Thunberg, the 16 -year -old Swedish activist who has visualized the great concern of today's teenagers and has given a great touch of attention to adults, is hope before theApocalypse of our destruction.Since in 1971 a group of Canadian protesters rent a ship to campaign against nuclear tests in Alaska and called it "Greenpeace", green is no longer a noun but an adjective, something that only happens with the big symbols.At the end of that decade he already identified an ideology that made the leap to politics, with "Die Grünen" in Germany, "Groen!"In Belgium and "Les Verts" in France.But green, so intimately to sustainability, today connects with a much broader social struggle spectrum.

Green is also the handkerchief endowed with a powerful meaning in Latin America: an accessory that feminists adopted in 2003 Argentina and that since then, women from Chile, France, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico have adopted this accessory as a symbol of the right to the right to the right to the right to thelegalization of abortion.Assid in the neck, on the wrist or as another complement, it works as a silent and collective speaker: actress Yalitza Aparicio is one of the best known faces in carrying it.Green is also a color that integrates another very current conversation in the West: it is a neutral chromatic range in terms of gender.Before the traditional blue or pink girl this tone expresses a less typified and more inclusive reality.

The fascinating and deadly history of emerald

"The color in the clothing, especially the bright, saturated and vibrant tones, have often been very symbolic and reflect the status of those who wear them," says Dra. Alexandra Loske, historiadora del arte, comisaria del Royal Pavilion & Brighton Museums, y autora del libro Color: A Visual Story, en Refinery29.And among all its possible shadows, the Emerald pigment keeps a past as fascinating as lethal.

Some historians believe that it was precisely the painted wall of "Green Scheele" the one that ended with Napoleon Bonaparte in its wet cell of Santa Elena Island in 1821.The lethal vapors of arsenic of this pigment invented by a Swedish chemist would change the story and, nevertheless, they made the jump to fashion.As Victoria Finlay explains in The Brilliant History of Color in Art, around 1814 a German company named Wilhelm Dye and White Lead Company created a pigment that a Powerfully remembered an emerald.The obsession with this jewel color was fed by the appearance in 1864 of the Empress Eugenia de Montijo in the opera with a brand new dress in this tone that came to be baptized as "Green Paris" and that stained garments, walls and dreams and dreams.What they didn't know at that time was that this finish was as bright as.It was not until the twentieth century was entered when this chemical element stopped being used to dye clothes.

Pop history has finished canonizing this color above other shades of green.The removable collar of diamonds and emeralds of Bvlgari that Richard Burton gave Elizabeth Taylor (or the impressive commitment ring with a 63 -carat emeraldHollywood.Esmeralda is also the dress chosen as the most beautiful in the history of cinema: the one that Keira Knightley wore in atonement and that has served for endless imitations in tailor shops around the world.Of another intense green, designed by Versace, was the dress with which Jennifer Lopez changed Google forever.

Fashion, which always responds to what is happening in the world, has been looking at green for several seasons.It all started with the operating tone of the Gucci parade in the fall of 2018 that caused great impact and that began a green movement (in aesthetics and message) through which other firms travel today, such as Jacquemus (natural mint), Balenciaga (fluoridepre -apocalyptic), Prada (pistachio with nostalgia) or Emilia Wickstead (Esmeralda) herself (Esmeralda).In this era in which fashion is more political than ever, dressing green can be one of the most airing ways to reborn from the hottest waters.