Catherine East via Chloe Savage s website
Chloe Savage in her studio.
Chloe Savage built her life around her work. She trained for seven years, mastering her embroidery skills first at the Royal School of Needlework in Surrey, U.K., and then at Paris’s prestigious École Lesage art school. Her skill and mastery was recognized at the highest level: it’s hard to imagine a bigger honour than being part of a team who worked on embroidery for both Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle’s wedding dresses.
But the pandemic has halted just about all of the embroidery work Savage has been doing. The sudden, unexpected loss of income was devastating, especially because she’s a single mom to an eight-year-old son and a 14-year-old daughter, as well as an adult son. For the first time, she’s having trouble paying her bills.
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A woman who helped make both Kate Middleton s and Meghan Markle s wedding dresses says she s on the brink of homelessness
A woman who helped make both Kate Middleton s and Meghan Markle s wedding dresses says she s on the brink of homelessness
Anneta KonstantinidesDec 18, 2020, 14:29 IST
The woman who helped create Kate Middleton s and Meghan Markle s wedding dresses is now on the brink of homelessness due to the pandemic.Ben STANSALL - WPA Pool/Getty Images
Chloe Savage, the embroiderer who helped create both
Kate Middleton s and
Meghan Markle s iconic wedding gowns, is now on the brink of homelessness, she told People magazine.
Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle s wedding gown maker on the brink of homelessness
Chloe appliquéd all the lace to Kate s gown and shoes, and also worked on her elasticated blue silk and white lace garter.
December 18, 2020 07:29 GMT
The financial slump caused by the coronavirus pandemic has pushed a lot of people on the brink of homelessness, including a British embroiderer who has worked on two royal wedding gowns.
Chloe Savage, who helped create the iconic wedding dresses of Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle, has revealed that she is struggling to make both ends meet amid the pandemic. The artist, who works from her home in Warmley Village on the outskirts of Bristol, England, shared with People magazine that her financial status has gotten so bad that her teenage daughter is having to skip meals to save some money.