According to Net-a-Porter website item description, the blouse is "Cut from fluid silk-crepe, this style has a loose silhouette and features fabric-covered buttons that run down the back. Gently knot the pussy-bow ties or leave them loose for an undone feel..."

Kate Middleton wore this Gucci blouse backwards while visiting the hospital, with the buttons up front, unlike the way how Gucci official model carries it.

It is not clear if she has done it by accident or choice and Kensington Palace did not comment on it.

When Kate Middleton promotes "5 Big Questions" early years survey in Kensington Royal Palace.

This time, the Duchess of Cambridge has chosen again to wear her Gucci blouse backwards, like she did in 2019.

The purple silk blouse worn by Kate Middleton has been sold out on Net-a-Porter, and the website now offers something similar, although none of them are exactly of the same style. They are made in different colors and of different fabrics like silk satin, silk twill or silk blend or viscose, and the details like shoulder seams, sleeve cuffs are made differently as well. Most noticeably, the back button detail which has caused the hot discussion among her fans has disappeared and replaced by a normal positioned front buttons.

It is easy to say “I want to travel around the world”, particularly in our time when it has never been easier to travel from one place to another. But between two destinations, not everything is as amicable as traveling itself, the long waiting line, the bad traffic and loud noises, the omnipresent fluorescent lamps, but most annoying or even humiliating aspect of traveling, is the security control. It is necessary for everyone’s security including yours, but never pleasant.
Most of people just accept it as part of traveling experience, but not Karl Lagerfeld. He had stopped flying commercial airlines for almost 20 years, so he would never need to take off his belt, his gloves or his sun glasses, which must have made him feel being nude in public.

For more than one time, Karl Lagerfeld had played the ancient game of “I am as old as I tell you”, sometimes he was born in 1935, sometimes 1938, or neither. Coco Chanel had played the same game before him, and many more people before them. Time can change, but “vanity” will never get old.

If the historians were annoyed because it hurt the integrity of their records, it is understandable, but other than them, nobody has the right to feel cheated, after all, his birth date, like his hair and his outfit, belongs only to him, and nobody else.

White shirt, black sunglasses, and fingerless gloves had been the symbolic outfit of Karl Lagerfeld for decades, they became part of him and his personality.

Audrey Hepburn once said she felt protected in the clothes designed for her by Hubert de Givenchy, Karl Lagerfeld must have felt that way as well: from his dark sunglasses, he could see everything and everyone without being watched; with his starched high collar, he not only achieved a kind of baroque elegance and authority, but also made himself mysterious, inaccessible; and the countless leather fingerless gloves, while serving as the final touch of his unique outfit, also had the practical purpose of protecting his hands.

Karl had stated that he had stopped using sunscreen for more than 40 years because he did not expose himself to sun at all, not even his hands.

As a public figure who dedicated his life to beauty, he knew very well that he did not want to age under the public eyes.

For most of his adult life, Karl Lagerfeld lived in solitude. Even when he was with Jacques de Bascher, Karl lived separately.

Th chosen solitude allowed him achieve something nobody in the fashion history had ever done before him: directing multiple couture houses both in France and Italy, created more than 10 collections every year for his most important patron Chanel alone, designed everything from haute couture to ready-to-wear to accessories to perfumes, designed, illustrated and published books, took photographers and direct shore movies.....and it allowed him to live just as he wanted: to sleep at least 9 hours a night, eat the food he wanted at exactly the same time he wanted, at home.

When Thierry Demaizière, one of the directors of the 2008 documentary named the film: Un Roi Seul, Karl Lagerfeld did not like it, because he did not feel lonely.

He had chosen to be “seul” (alone), but he did not feel “seul” (lonely).