Dapper in their matching white dinner jackets and dickey bows, the pair pose for photographs for almost an hour. In the kingdom of Kerry, the local-boy-made-good is fashion royalty. What we didn’t know that night as we sat down for the Recovery Haven fundraiser – now in its second year and inspired by his late mother, Mim – is that Don was about to dress another royal. In the last few years, the Ballyheigue-born designer has dressed Princess Mary of Denmark and Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, as well as Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, in Theia, the brand he launched 10 years ago this month and named after the goddess of light. The latest royal to fall under the Irishman’s spell is Princess Grace’s youngest daughter, Stephanie De Monaco, who wore a yellow, embroidered dress to the wedding of her son, Louis Ducruet, last month. Meghan Markle’s decision to wear Don’s flange-shoulder ivory crepe gown (pictured right with his illustration) to a state dinner with the king of Tonga in Nuku’alofa last October, put a global spotlight on the New York-based brand. Theia clocked up a phenomenal number of page impressions and its site traffic went up… Read full this story
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