Meghan Markle’s Flamingo Estate

DUSSELDORF, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 15: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex attends the cycling at the Invictus Games on September 15, 2023 in Dusseldorf, Germany. (Photo by Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images)
Rachel Strugatz
May 29, 2024

Flamingo Estate, the decadent lifestyle accouterments company inspired by the fabulous Spanish-style L.A. home of Richard Christiansen and his partner, Aaron Harvey, has become the status symbol du jour for a certain kind of post-Goop, California in-crowd. You know, the sort of milieu where unironic, limited-edition raw honey collaborations with Julianne Moore, Will Ferrell, and LeBron James cost $250 a jar. And people regularly guffaw over $42 bars of soap or $80 dried strawberries. It’s a world where Glossier founder Emily Weiss throws her baby shower. And no one—no one—is more associated with this fever dream than Meghan Markle, whom I heard used the lifestyle company as “inspiration” for her new brand, America Riviera Orchard.