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For her first official post-maternity leave engagement, the Duchess of Sussex stepped out in London on Thursday September 12, to unveil her highly-anticipated capsule workwear collection, titled The Smart Set, in collaboration with one of her patronages, Smart Works.
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Smart Works is a charitable organisation helping unemployed women regain the skills to return to the workplace, as well as providing access to office-appropriate outfits to wear to job interviews.
It’s this particular area of Smart Work’s remit that Markle has been working on, partnering with British retailers Marks and Spencer, Jigsaw, and John Lewis & Partners — along with her good friend, US-based fashion designer Misha Nonoo — to create a capsule collection of office-ready attire that will benefit the Smart Works charity.
The news of the Smart Works capsule fashion collection was first revealed in British September issue — an issue the duchess guest-edited — and it works by way of a one-for-one process: for each item of the capsule collection sold, one item is donated to charity. These donated pieces provide the organisation with a much-needed supply of polished workwear for the women it helps to wear to interviews.
At the collection launch held at the John Lewis Oxford Street store in London, Markle looked office-ready in a Smart Set outfit that could have come directly from her pre-duchess actress days playing a paralegal-turned-lawyer on US legal drama, . The duchess, 38, wore the black tailored Jigsaw pants from the five-piece collection accessorised with a tan leather belt, along with the Misha Nonoo white shirt from the range and tan suede pumps identified by What Meghan Wore as Manolo Blahnik.
Notably, the white Misha Nonoo shirt is similar in style to the shirt from the same label that Meghan Markle wore in her first official public appearance with Prince Harry at the Invictus Games in 2017. And, the thoughtful sartorial moments didn’t end with the shirt.
Markle paid tribute to her late mother-in-law, Princess Diana, wearing a pair of Princess Diana’s gold and diamond butterfly-shaped earrings, a special piece she first wore in Sydney during the 2018 royal tour.
Scroll on to see the entire five-piece Smart Set capsule collection along with Markle wearing the collection.
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Meghan Markle arrives to launch the Smart Works capsule fashion collection on September 12, 2019 in London, England wearing the Misha Nonoo shirt and Jigsaw Paris pants from the range.
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Meghan Markle poses for a photograph with women dressed in clothes from the Smart Works capsule collection during the collection’s launch on September 12, 2019 in London, England.
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Jigsaw Paris seam detail jacket from The Smart Set collection. Available on the UK Jigsaw site only for £199 (AU$357), not currently available in Australia.
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Jigsaw Paris slim fit tapered trouser from The Smart Set collection. Available on the UK Jigsaw site only for £120 (AU$215), not currently available in Australia.
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Marks and Spencer dress in black from The Smart Set Collection. Available from Marksandspencer.com for $40.
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John Lewis & Partners Smart Set leather tote in tan and black. Both colourways are already sold out online at Johnlewis.com.
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Misha Nonoo Smart Set white shirt. Available for US$125 (AU$182) online at Mishanonoo.com.