In a line from With Love, Meghan’s second episode, Meghan Markle summed up the approach to dressing that is quickly becoming her post-royal signature. “I like high-low,” she said, as she stood in front of the set’s refrigerator, talking to Mindy Kaling. “So…Zara,” she said, pointing to her pair of white, wide-legged pants. “Loro Piana,” she said, moving to her oatmeal-colored knit top. “And Jenni Kayne,” she said, taking off the striped cashmere sweater she had tied around her shoulders. Similar pants from Zara now retail for $109, while the Jenni Kayne sweater can be purchased for $395 (though naturally, it’s now sold out in most sizes). The Loro Piana top, a cashmere and silk blend with an intrecciato-style knit pattern, will likely run you about $1325 if you can track it down.
Throughout her time in the spotlight, Meghan has always mixed mass market, mid-market, and high luxury pieces but on With Love, Meghan, she leans into a soothing, monochromatic approach that puts quality and comfort over trends. For With Love, Meghan, her outfits mix old stalwarts like J. Crew and Banana Republic with trendier brands like Anine Bing, Mother, and Dôen, tossing in the occasional luxury accessory from Saint Laurent or Hermés.
Though the show was shot in Montecito, where the duchess lives with Prince Harry and their two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet of Sussex, only a scant number of exterior scenes were actually filmed in the garden of their 7.4 acre estate. Instead, she rented a nearby house with multiple kitchens to use as a set. Though she introduced the audience to her rescue beagle, Guy, who died earlier this year, and their black Pula, the clothes might have been the most personal aspect of the show. Meghan pulled from her own closet for as many as five outfit changes per episode, showcasing a few pieces familiar to Meghan style obsessives. When she sits down for a tea party with Mindy Kaling, Meghan is wearing an Emilia Wickstead dress she wore back in 2022 at a Florida polo weekend (documented by episode four guest Delfina Figueras) and a pair of Aquazzura heels that she has in multiple colors. While working on a fruit board, she wore a cashmere sweater from Dôen that she also wore last month at the Invictus Games.
Though the show obviously takes its cues and structure from hosts like Martha Stewart and Ina Garten—in episode one, Meghan says that she grew up watching cooking shows on TV—With Love, Meghan isn’t trying to bring back the golden era of Food Network. Instead of focusing on technique and flair, the duchess’s focus is on beautifying healthy foods without too much effort. It’s how she can get away with wearing an all-white outfit—an ivory shell from J. Crew and linen skirt by Posse—when she’s showing her friends Kelly Zaijfen and Abigail Spencer how to salt roast branzino. Otherwise, the outfits show off a panoply of pastels, from a floral Ralph Lauren shirtdress and a mint green shirt from Zimmerman to a pale blue Ulla Johnson maxi.
When the cooking is more intense, the crafts require a bit more attention, or she’s actually getting dirty in the garden, her outfit choices are more utilitarian. To fry chicken with chef Roy Choi, she wore a charcoal t-shirt and a pair of jeans from Citizens of Humanity. She wore a variety of different aprons, including one from a collection designed by Choi in collaboration with LA-based restaurant uniform brand Finery and another from Celtic Farm. For the most part the shoes were low and comfortable. In the garden, she broke out weather-resistant yet still somehow trendy clogs from Crocs and Gardenheir.
