The Avalon zip-top crossbody is the bag Meghan Markle carried in April 2018, when she joined Prince Harry at a Commonwealth Youth Forum event during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London. She wore the black-and-white colour-blocked version, with a Camilla and Marc jacket.
The bag, which cost A$295, sold out online within hours, and Oroton said 75 per cent of those online sales went to buyers in the United States and Britain. It came at a hard moment: the company had entered voluntary administration the previous November. Chief executive Ross Lane called the choice a huge endorsement of the new creative direction under Sophie Holt. Oroton took pre-orders for a restock that August, and the bag was also made in coral and green stripes.