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Her favorite styles include well-tailored, tightly belted trench coats and sharply cut tuxedos. Melania Trump’s style, sometimes military-influenced and always very sophisticated and glamorous, has been the subject of both admiration and consternation.
To some, she is the epitome of first lady style, to others, she embodies something else. She famously wore sky-high heels while visiting natural disaster sites and a pith hat, a symbol of colonial rule, on a safari in Kenya. Some point out her extravagant taste. Many of her costumes come with price tags in the thousands of dollars. But perhaps the most famous thing is the jacket she wore. When visiting an immigrant child detention center In 2018, it read, “I really don’t care. What do you do?” She later said the message was directed at “left-wing media.”
Perhaps even more so, considering President Trump’s wardrobe is often the only communication tool she uses. “Melania is not known as a great speaker, so her fashion choices became even more important because that was often the format of her speeches,” Rabinovich-Fox says. She added, “I’m a former model, so of course I don’t know much about fashion, but I also know how to use clothes.”
“I think in general, today’s first ladies understand the power of fashion and are trying to create an image that is representative not only of their country but also of their policies and that of their husbands,” Rabinovich-Fox says.
It remains to be seen how this dynamic will change when the United States installs a “first gentleman.”
Michelle Obama’s The Look is published by Crown Publishing Group in the US and Viking Press in the UK.
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