“Danielle found it,” she says nonchalantly of her whisper of a floral slip, before adding: “I was really hoping it would fit because it was the lightest thing that we had on the rack and it’s just heaven.” It was Goldberg who was behind Carey’s recent investiture look at Windsor Castle – exquisitely tasteful The Row separates that adhered to the in-demand Hollywood dresser’s “less is more” formula, while making sure Mulligan felt resolutely herself for “one of the most nervewracking things”. Once safely out of the King’s eyeline and seated at lunch, she pinned her official ribbon to her The Row “to take a bunch of photos” in sheer delight.
If Mulligan’s relationship with Goldberg is relatively new, her friendship with McCormack harks back to 2014, when the jeweller gifted the charity War Child, for whom Mulligan is a founding global ambassador, a piece for its first auction. Now, Carey herself carries a McCormack keepsake everywhere she goes, after finally coming clean to husband Marcus Mumford that she didn’t actually like the engagement ring (a diamond flanked by two emeralds) he bestowed upon her in 2011. McCormack stepped in, recasting the twinkling stone in one mega band, and the two green jewels in a pair of her signature gypset earrings. Mumford’s cry of “Why would you walk around with something you didn’t like for that long?” was quickly put to bed when he saw the final results, and the musician has gifted his wife several additional McCormack tokens since.
