Meghan Markle popped out for lunch Thursday with an old friend. The Duchess of Sussex and Clare Waight Keller, who designed Markle’s wedding dress when she married Prince Harry, enjoyed a midday bite at Cipriani Beverly Hills. Markle wore a camel-colored overcoat, black wide-leg pants, and a simple black turtleneck, and even donned Prince Harry’s signature accessory: Aviator sunglasses, not terribly dissimilar from the ones her husband joked about buying for her in Tokyo in summer 2023.

The two likely had plenty to catch up on, given how much has happened since Markle’s 2018 nuptials and their period of intense collaboration. Leading up to the wedding, Waight Keller (at the time the artistic director for Givenchy, the first woman to hold the role) and Markle secretly communicated for about five months to design, create, and fit the sleek bateau-neck gown, down to what shade of pure white silk the dress would be constructed from.

“It all started out, in a way, quite relaxed,” Waight Keller told Vanity Fair in August 2023 of working with Markle. “We just talked a lot about her personal style.”

“There was that sense of playfulness and modernity and doing things in a different way,” Waight Keller said of working with Markle on the dress. “And I really feel that—for the dress, particularly—that sense of it could be something that really represented her, her spirit, her modernity, and the freshness and the cleanness.”

Later in 2018, the newlywed Markle wore another Waight Keller creation for a notable occasion, donning a cream-colored sheath dress with a caped neckline for her first official joint engagement with Queen Elizabeth II. Markle presented Waight Keller with the British Designer of the Year Award in December 2018.

Since those days, Markle and Harry have added two children to their family and swapped continents, moving to California after announcing in 2020 that they would give up their official roles within the British royal family. For her part, Waight Keller is no longer with Givenchy, and this week launched her second collaboration with Uniqlo.