Meghan Markle is opening up in a new interview!
The 43-year-old Duchess of Sussex recently added a new brand to her growing investment portfolio, and it’s one she found while shopping online and has already helped the brand find a lot of success.
If you didn’t know, Meghan has been making an effort in investing in female-run companies and small businesses.
In a new interview with The New York Times, Meghan opened up about her latest investment venture – handbag company Cesta Collective – and when she learned she could make a difference with her fashion choices.
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“I spend a lot of time just Googling, looking for brands,” she told the publication. “When people are online looking for things or reading things, I’m trying to find great new designers, especially in different territories.”
Erin Ryder, founder of Cesta Collective, reveals that after Meghan was seen carrying one of their handbags, they had “more sales in one day than we’ve ever had.”
Meghan received a thank-you note from the brands founders, Erin and Courtney Weinblatt Fasciano, and she later offered to become an investor, holding a minority stake in the brand.
Meghan noted to the NYT that she realized in 2017 how much attention was drawn to her fashion choices, and this led to her wanting to continuing helping smaller brands.
Showrtly after her engagement to Prince Harry, she carried a Strathberry handbag to her first royal engagement and it sold out within 11 minutes!
Her impact helped the brand expand its workforce and “changed everything in terms of how I then looked at putting an outfit together,” Meghan shared. “Times where I know there is a global spotlight, and attention will be given to each detail of what I may or may not be wearing, then I support designers that I have really great friendships with, and smaller, up-and-coming brands that haven’t gotten the attention that they should be getting.”
“That’s one of the most powerful things that I’m able to do, and that’s simply wearing, like, an earring,” she adds.
Recently, Meghan and Prince Harry took a trip to Colombia. Check out photos here!
While there, she opened up about their daughter Lilibet during a panel appearance.
