what does a duchess wear?

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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. -Jane Austen

 WWW by Cecil Beaton

 “I'm nothing to look at, so the only thing I can do is dress better than anyone else.”

WWW

from Baltimore, to London, to Paris WWW was always stylish-however her love affair with couture and her quest for style began when her affair with the Prince of Wales began.

Tweeds, Menswear, but always severely chic.
Givenchy, Yves Saint Laurent, & of course Dior filled her closet.

"In my opinion, there is only one important rule about clothes: it is that they should be so simple and unobtrusive as to seem unimportant." 

WWW

So- what does a Duchess wear?

my own thoughts" here

at style.com

DIOR above from the pages of the WINDSOR Style by Suzy Menkes

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