Meghan Markle has finally revealed the reason why she Changed the name of his lifestyle From American Riviera Orchard until as always.
The 43 -year -old Sussex Duchess admitted that the original name of her commercial company became a “word salad”, which led her to return to the drawing table in search of a new idea.
In Tuesday’s episode or her Podcast “Confessions of a Female Founder”The former actress talked to the friend and celebrity hair color Kadi Lee, owner of the high -level hippie hairdressing in Los Angeles.
“I had assured me as always as a name in 2022, and then, when it all began to evolve last year, and bringing a partner of the size it was, and it was very interesting,” said Markle Duration The Episode.
“Because you remember, I said: ‘I like the American Riviera as an umbrella’, and then be able to have vertical under it. And maybe having the really small ‘garden’. But when that is not feasible … suddenly it became this word salad. I did not love it so much.”
In September 2024, Markle’s request for American Riviera Orchard According to the reports, it was rejected By the US Patent and Marks Office. (USPTO), who warned that companies cannot mark geographical locations.
The government agency also warned that Markle’s products descriptions could in multiple categories of registered trademarks.
At that time, Markle’s team considered the “routine and expected” rejection when filling the registered trademarks, according to the post.
The Harry & David’s rival lifestyle then presented a protest against Markle’s lifestyle, claiming that the name is too similar to his “Riviera Royal” Product line.
In November 2024, Markle’s team He asked the USPTO an extension of three months To launch the brand.
She finally Presented as always to the world In February, revealing that he has the nickname of Orchard American Riviera forever.
“I thought,” Ok, well, let’s go to the thing I have always loved. Let’s use the name that I protected for a reason that had a kind of envelope, “said the” Suits “student.
“And then we could concentrate on tranquility and lower our heads and build something that nobody was sniffing to see.”
“It was very, very useful to have that quiet period that you would know after spending so many years working on something, building it and the pivots you had to carry with it,” he added.
Lee, whose high-level hippie hall is based in Venice, California, has several a-listers such as their customers, including Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt and Sigourney Weaver.
“Look now, I mean that the name Highbrow Hippie is no longer just a blog and a hairdresser, it is also a product line,” said the mother of two children.
“You have a hair supplement and a hair serum that has just launched last year, and is already called Best Hair Sero de Oprah Daily.”
Markle, meanwhile, Became an investor of the hair care brand in November 2024.
He Enthusiast inverter He even attended the launch party of the brand those months, where he posed for photos with Lee and the celebrity stylist Serge Normant.
Normant, who created Markle’s nuptial hairstyles for his 2018 wedding with Prince Harry, believes he had introduced the old real work of Lee.
Markle and reads often gather in Los Angeles, and the hair colorist has even launched a late birthday celebration in his living room last summer.
