The girl with the diamond earrings: What Emma Raducanu’s deal with Tiffany means

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If you had followed the sparkling trail of diamonds, the clues that Emma Raducanu was set to announce a lucrative deal with Tiffany & Co. were all there.

The American luxury jeweller’s courtship of the tennis star began, fittingly, on court. As Raducanu swept to her historic victory at the US Open final, the 18 year-old tennis star from Bromley wore a pair of gifted £4,475 pearl and diamond earrings (the “Victoria” style), an £8,500 bangle and a £2,750 crucifix pendant. The brand proudly fired details for those who might afford to “get the look” to the fashion press, in the way that they typically do when they lend jewels to celebrities to wear on the red carpet.

At the Met Gala, days later, the stakes (and the price tags) were raised. Raducanu was the talk of the New York social scene, experiencing a whirlwind of glamour alongside Rihanna and Jennifer Lopez while wearing £17,000 earrings from the jeweller.

By Monday night, back home in Britain, it was clear Raducanu had won the fashion match of the year. The teenager attended a London Fashion Week party hosted by Vogue and Tiffany & Co. wearing jewellery worth around £100,000, including a £37,000 pair of earrings and a bangle designed in collaboration with artist Daniel Arsham that is not even available yet in stores. Tiffany & Co. announced that the deal was done, Raducanu posted about her ambassadorship on Instagram and an ongoing partnership – rumoured to be worth seven figures – with the company known for its signature baby blue boxes is now underway.

The message behind Meghan’s £53,000 ‘Succession chic’ New York tourdrobe

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Double-faced cashmere coats, luxe roll neck jumpers in tasteful neutral hues, impeccable tailoring and subtle but unmistakable sprinklings of diamonds… This could be the wardrobe checklist for Succession’s Shiv Roy or the pieces you’d expect to see on the moodboard for Jennifer Aniston’s character on The Morning Show.

It’s also a selection of the key items worn by the Duchess of Sussex during her three-day visit to New York with Prince Harry, which culminated on Saturday evening with the couple’s appearance at the Global Citizen Live concert in Central Park.

The visit has been called a post-royal tour, with Harry and Meghan dropping in to read books to school children in Harlem one minute and meeting with UN dignitaries the next. It had echoes of Amal Clooney’s high-powered UN trips, when she would wear an upscale designer wardrobe whilst on duty representing victims of human rights abuses - see, the time she debuted a suite of looks worth £168,000 whilst seeking to bring global attention to the plight of the Yazidi people in 2017.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were always going to draw attention on their first major public tour since leaving the Royal family in March 2020, but the message imbued in Meghan’s clothing choices were unmistakable - this is the beginning of a serious and professional new era in their lives where their ambition is to be key players on the world stage, influencing political decisions and speaking out on the causes close to their hearts.

To the untrained eye, Meghan looked sleek and businesslike, sure, but dig a little deeper and you discover that her outfits embraced the private jet power style popularised by Succession and epitomised by many of the labels in her NY tourdrobe, like Max Mara and Loro Piana. The total estimated spend across six looks was £53,600.

Ahead of their New York trip, the Sussexes appeared on the cover of Time magazine in similarly understated yet sophisticated looks, which, crucially, were styled by Clare and Nina Hallworth who mastermind Jennifer Aniston’s red carpet appearances as well as her costumes in The Morning Show, which are whisperingly expensive. It wouldn’t be surprising if the Hallworths had helped the Duchess to prepare her NY wardrobe, too.

Here’s every look and the detail behind it…

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