Ivanka Trump
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Who is that redhead girl at the Pronovias event, and why didn't someone stop her from wearing that Hervé Léger dress?
I am very sorry to say that "redhaired" girl is the sweet and usually adorable Alexandra Richards, who has never looked worse...
Not Just the Boss’s Daughter
Ivanka Trump on her daily beauty rituals and how to avoid frenemies.
Q&A by George Wayne Vanity Fair June 2008
Ivanka Trump, the beauteous swan spawn of one of New York’s most lampooned former couples, is now using her famous last name and various inherited gifts to blaze her own path, with a jewelry company recently added to her portfolio. A vice president at the Trump Organization, and a frequent guest on her father’s hit show, The Apprentice, Trump flaunts her old man’s uncanny flair for self-promotion. Our correspondent, an old acquaintance, checks in with the dynastic daughter.
Ivanka Trump: I was thinking as I was waiting how I have known you since I was 14.
George Wayne: And I was thinking how proud I am of your effortless segue into the cultural Zeitgeist. I just hope you are not spreading yourself too thin, ’Vanka. You seem to be juggling many different projects.
No, I don’t think I am spreading myself too thin. I make a cognitive effort to turn down those things that don’t really excite me. Real estate is my main focus, and I’m loving it. Forbes just wrote that I am the youngest director on a publicly traded company in America. And I also do my jewelry, but that is a small business relative to the real estate.
And you also design the uniforms for your hotel staff.
Well, that’s because I am literally involved with every detail of my hotel operations. I am trying to set a tone for the brand, so you really want to create a feeling. I am designing them because I know what I want a doorman at a five-star hotel to look like. I also do the interiors for all our hotels. Everything. Right down to picking out the china. The flat-screens.
What is your official title here in the Trump Kingdom?
I am vice president of development and acquisitions for the Trump Organization. I’m president of Ivanka Trump jewelry. And I’m on the board of directors of Trump Entertainment Resorts.
I am so impressed by the way you have come into your own, ’Vanka!
I have always known I wanted to follow in my father’s footsteps, but you never know until you actually do it if you are going to be any good. I now have that level of comfort where I know that I am good at what I do and that I can really enjoy it.
Are you creating the rings for your mum’s wedding this April?
That’s a good question. I did design the engagement rings, but she hasn’t asked.
Tell me about your daily morning ritual. What’s the first thing you do when you get up?
The first thing I do when I get up is to read the New York Post.
What about your morning beauty rituals?
Lately I’ve been using La Mer. I do have hundreds of bath products, and I really don’t wear too much makeup. My bathtub is teeming with washes and scrubs.
’Tis a pity it was not to be a double wedding at Mar-a-Lago.
I have enough on my plate, my God.
If there is one vice, what would it be?
I love to live in a free, casual way. I think big picture, but I sometimes get too obsessed with minor details, and I always have to remind myself not to. But I think part of the beauty of being 26 is still trying to figure out what life is all about. It is certainly not about drugs or alcohol, but there are a few personality flaws that I am looking into.
You are so perfect, ’Vanka! Do you ever feel that you have to constantly try to measure up to your incredible mother and, of course, to your larger-than-life father? I would be scared ****less to have “the Donald” as my dad.
No. If I were to use my parents as any sort of measuring tool I would be in for a very bitter and hard and long road.
Tell me the three warning signs any Apprentice ought to know on “how to spot a frenemy.”
One is: Never allow yourself to be used. Make sure not to surround yourself with people whose only interest is what you can do for them. Be generous with your friends but not in a way where they are living off of you. Another sign to watch for is insincerity. Watch the way they react and treat you, and then watch the way they react and treat people they probably consider not as important as you. Duplicity is a key sign of the frenemy.
’Vanka, the Force is with you!
George Wayne, a Vanity Fair contributing editor, has been writing for the magazine since the early 1990s.
Ivanka Trump on her daily beauty rituals and how to avoid frenemies.
Q&A by George Wayne Vanity Fair June 2008
Ivanka Trump, the beauteous swan spawn of one of New York’s most lampooned former couples, is now using her famous last name and various inherited gifts to blaze her own path, with a jewelry company recently added to her portfolio. A vice president at the Trump Organization, and a frequent guest on her father’s hit show, The Apprentice, Trump flaunts her old man’s uncanny flair for self-promotion. Our correspondent, an old acquaintance, checks in with the dynastic daughter.
Ivanka Trump: I was thinking as I was waiting how I have known you since I was 14.
George Wayne: And I was thinking how proud I am of your effortless segue into the cultural Zeitgeist. I just hope you are not spreading yourself too thin, ’Vanka. You seem to be juggling many different projects.
No, I don’t think I am spreading myself too thin. I make a cognitive effort to turn down those things that don’t really excite me. Real estate is my main focus, and I’m loving it. Forbes just wrote that I am the youngest director on a publicly traded company in America. And I also do my jewelry, but that is a small business relative to the real estate.
And you also design the uniforms for your hotel staff.
Well, that’s because I am literally involved with every detail of my hotel operations. I am trying to set a tone for the brand, so you really want to create a feeling. I am designing them because I know what I want a doorman at a five-star hotel to look like. I also do the interiors for all our hotels. Everything. Right down to picking out the china. The flat-screens.
What is your official title here in the Trump Kingdom?
I am vice president of development and acquisitions for the Trump Organization. I’m president of Ivanka Trump jewelry. And I’m on the board of directors of Trump Entertainment Resorts.
I am so impressed by the way you have come into your own, ’Vanka!
I have always known I wanted to follow in my father’s footsteps, but you never know until you actually do it if you are going to be any good. I now have that level of comfort where I know that I am good at what I do and that I can really enjoy it.
Are you creating the rings for your mum’s wedding this April?
That’s a good question. I did design the engagement rings, but she hasn’t asked.
Tell me about your daily morning ritual. What’s the first thing you do when you get up?
The first thing I do when I get up is to read the New York Post.
What about your morning beauty rituals?
Lately I’ve been using La Mer. I do have hundreds of bath products, and I really don’t wear too much makeup. My bathtub is teeming with washes and scrubs.
’Tis a pity it was not to be a double wedding at Mar-a-Lago.
I have enough on my plate, my God.
If there is one vice, what would it be?
I love to live in a free, casual way. I think big picture, but I sometimes get too obsessed with minor details, and I always have to remind myself not to. But I think part of the beauty of being 26 is still trying to figure out what life is all about. It is certainly not about drugs or alcohol, but there are a few personality flaws that I am looking into.
You are so perfect, ’Vanka! Do you ever feel that you have to constantly try to measure up to your incredible mother and, of course, to your larger-than-life father? I would be scared ****less to have “the Donald” as my dad.
No. If I were to use my parents as any sort of measuring tool I would be in for a very bitter and hard and long road.
Tell me the three warning signs any Apprentice ought to know on “how to spot a frenemy.”
One is: Never allow yourself to be used. Make sure not to surround yourself with people whose only interest is what you can do for them. Be generous with your friends but not in a way where they are living off of you. Another sign to watch for is insincerity. Watch the way they react and treat you, and then watch the way they react and treat people they probably consider not as important as you. Duplicity is a key sign of the frenemy.
’Vanka, the Force is with you!
George Wayne, a Vanity Fair contributing editor, has been writing for the magazine since the early 1990s.
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That dress is horrible. I don't like her hair either. Not a very good look for her.
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The pin tucks in that dress 
I fear she's picking up where her parents left off in the 80s, showing up (for 10 minutes...) at every single event in New York... 
I started a thread for Vanessa Trump, Ivanka's beautiful sister in law, if anyone may be interested! 
http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/f50/vanessa-trump-68337.html#post4522309
http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/f50/vanessa-trump-68337.html#post4522309
Ah Ha!! You learn something new every day!! Now I see why she was in Times Square at the Milk Bone Dog House (made out of dog biscuits...)!
This is Tiger, Ivanka's new doggie! She said controlling a dog in a house made out of dog bones is not easy... !!
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This is Tiger, Ivanka's new doggie! She said controlling a dog in a house made out of dog bones is not easy... !!
London Sunday Times 5-25-08
Ivanka Trump, businesswoman extraordinaire
Beautiful, ambitious and bright, Donald's daughter is being groomed for the top
Gemma Soames
Turning up to interview Ivanka Trump is a bit like walking onto the set of Working Girl, minus the rags-to-riches bit. The Trump family offices, on the 25th floor of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, New York, are an oasis of minimalist calm. To my left is an enormous boardroom full of leather swivel chairs; to my right, a picture-postcard view of Central Park; and in front of me, two assistants are saying that Miss Trump has been caught up on business downtown and is not here to conduct our interview - one that has already been rescheduled four times.
When I return a couple of hours later, Miss Trump has appeared, and the scene is no more lifelike. Ivanka, 26, is all beaming Hollywood smile, impossibly glossy blonde hair, ample bosom (fake, if you believe the rumours) and seemingly endless legs clad in a tasteful trouser suit. She looks like a make-believe version of a businesswoman. But for Ivanka, this is as real as it gets. As the daughter and protégée of America’s most famous businessman, she has lived and breathed this hybrid world - part deal-making, part celebrity showmanship - all her life.
And it transpires that, like her father, she is a master at it. “Real estate is in my blood,” she tells me. “I grew up on construction sites. I spent most of my childhood weekends with either my grandfather or my father on a dump truck somewhere.” After studying for a degree at one of America’s most prestigious business schools and a stint working for another developer (in a place far away from where, as she puts it, the world might be “staring and glaring” at her), she joined the family firm.
Four years later, she is vice president of real estate development and acquisitions, in charge of 33 construction sites across the world, the youngest person on the board of a publicly traded company in America and the face of her own jewellery collection. She is articulate, forthright and entirely comfortable with the position of responsibility in which she finds herself. “I was very much diving into the deep end when I joined. But it’s worked out extremely well thus far,” she says with a smile.
Far from being overshadowed by her famous father, Ivanka quickly carved out her own niche, establishing a reputation for dignity and diligence rarely attributed to New York heiresses. Most days, she is up at 6am, she travels “almost constantly”, is in the office most Sundays just trying to “decompress” and tells me that the secret to staying on top of it all is a good assistant. No nightclub shenanigans for her. “Not that I don’t like going out dancing at the weekends, but I’m not going to be falling off the tables drunk on a Wednesday at 4am, because I’ve got to be here on Thursday.” Romantically, she is linked to Jared Kushner, the 27-year-old proprietor of The New York Observer.
Ivanka works alongside her two brothers, Donald Jr, 30, and Eric, 24, but it is she who seems to be the jewel in the family crown. During negotiations for the interview, her assistant assured me she was so professional that one hour with her was like half a day with someone else (she is not wrong). And, of course, she is wonderfully photogenic.
“One of my funnier experiences was when I walked past a newsstand, and there I was, on the cover of both Forbes and Stuff magazines,” she says. But wherever you see her, know that this is a girl so in charge of her own image – be that in a bikini or business suit – that, rumour has it, her assistant is sent down to revarnish the nails on her wax model in Madame Tussauds every week. You are, after all, talking about the daughter of a woman whose fourth wedding just ran over 27 pages in Hello! magazine and a man who has managed to make property development a national spectator sport. “Somebody may dismiss me because I’m young, blonde or female, but that can be used to one’s advantage. Look at all this stuff,” she says, pointing to the endless framed magazine covers of herself that crowd her office walls. “I joke with my brothers that if they were on the cover of a men’s magazine, I don’t know how well it would sell. So, yeah, from that perspective, it’s an advantage.”
Still, following in her father’s footsteps can’t be easy. “There is a natural expectation. My father is larger than life, as is my mother. But it doesn’t concern me any more.” She says her father does her no favours. “If there was a deal he wasn’t into, we’d know,” she says. “He wouldn’t try to spare our feelings.” Since she took up business, their relationship is better than ever. “He’s not a chitchatter, so now there’s always some deal we can talk about.” She also praises her mother, Ivana. “She’s a great negotiator and is extremely motivated and driven. They complemented each other. She worked for my father when I was growing up. She did all the interiors for his properties. She ran the Plaza hotel when he owned it and she ran a casino in Atlantic City.” They are still all involved in each other’s lives. In spite of their acrimonious divorce in 1991, after Donald’s affair with the former beauty queen Marla Maples (Ivana famously said at the time: “Don’t get mad, get everything”), he attended her recent wedding.
So, how does Ivanka manage being a twentysomething girl in a world dominated by fiftysomething men? “I’m a girlie girl,” she says. “I’m not afraid to be feminine, to wear pink to the office. But there is a line to be drawn - I see it all the time, if people get a little too cute - there’s something about leveraging what you’ve got and your feminine wiles, but not to the point where you’re doing yourself a disservice.”
Ivanka’s world might be very different from yours or mine, but her ambition is recognisable. “It has never occurred to me that I have enough on my plate and I should stop now. There is always something better, bigger, sexier than what you’re doing.”
Looking at her here, in her glossy office, with her glossy life and her glossy looks, that is somewhat hard to believe. But if anyone can find it, have no doubt it is her.
Ivanka Trump, businesswoman extraordinaire
Beautiful, ambitious and bright, Donald's daughter is being groomed for the top
Gemma Soames
Turning up to interview Ivanka Trump is a bit like walking onto the set of Working Girl, minus the rags-to-riches bit. The Trump family offices, on the 25th floor of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, New York, are an oasis of minimalist calm. To my left is an enormous boardroom full of leather swivel chairs; to my right, a picture-postcard view of Central Park; and in front of me, two assistants are saying that Miss Trump has been caught up on business downtown and is not here to conduct our interview - one that has already been rescheduled four times.
When I return a couple of hours later, Miss Trump has appeared, and the scene is no more lifelike. Ivanka, 26, is all beaming Hollywood smile, impossibly glossy blonde hair, ample bosom (fake, if you believe the rumours) and seemingly endless legs clad in a tasteful trouser suit. She looks like a make-believe version of a businesswoman. But for Ivanka, this is as real as it gets. As the daughter and protégée of America’s most famous businessman, she has lived and breathed this hybrid world - part deal-making, part celebrity showmanship - all her life.
And it transpires that, like her father, she is a master at it. “Real estate is in my blood,” she tells me. “I grew up on construction sites. I spent most of my childhood weekends with either my grandfather or my father on a dump truck somewhere.” After studying for a degree at one of America’s most prestigious business schools and a stint working for another developer (in a place far away from where, as she puts it, the world might be “staring and glaring” at her), she joined the family firm.
Four years later, she is vice president of real estate development and acquisitions, in charge of 33 construction sites across the world, the youngest person on the board of a publicly traded company in America and the face of her own jewellery collection. She is articulate, forthright and entirely comfortable with the position of responsibility in which she finds herself. “I was very much diving into the deep end when I joined. But it’s worked out extremely well thus far,” she says with a smile.
Far from being overshadowed by her famous father, Ivanka quickly carved out her own niche, establishing a reputation for dignity and diligence rarely attributed to New York heiresses. Most days, she is up at 6am, she travels “almost constantly”, is in the office most Sundays just trying to “decompress” and tells me that the secret to staying on top of it all is a good assistant. No nightclub shenanigans for her. “Not that I don’t like going out dancing at the weekends, but I’m not going to be falling off the tables drunk on a Wednesday at 4am, because I’ve got to be here on Thursday.” Romantically, she is linked to Jared Kushner, the 27-year-old proprietor of The New York Observer.
Ivanka works alongside her two brothers, Donald Jr, 30, and Eric, 24, but it is she who seems to be the jewel in the family crown. During negotiations for the interview, her assistant assured me she was so professional that one hour with her was like half a day with someone else (she is not wrong). And, of course, she is wonderfully photogenic.
“One of my funnier experiences was when I walked past a newsstand, and there I was, on the cover of both Forbes and Stuff magazines,” she says. But wherever you see her, know that this is a girl so in charge of her own image – be that in a bikini or business suit – that, rumour has it, her assistant is sent down to revarnish the nails on her wax model in Madame Tussauds every week. You are, after all, talking about the daughter of a woman whose fourth wedding just ran over 27 pages in Hello! magazine and a man who has managed to make property development a national spectator sport. “Somebody may dismiss me because I’m young, blonde or female, but that can be used to one’s advantage. Look at all this stuff,” she says, pointing to the endless framed magazine covers of herself that crowd her office walls. “I joke with my brothers that if they were on the cover of a men’s magazine, I don’t know how well it would sell. So, yeah, from that perspective, it’s an advantage.”
Still, following in her father’s footsteps can’t be easy. “There is a natural expectation. My father is larger than life, as is my mother. But it doesn’t concern me any more.” She says her father does her no favours. “If there was a deal he wasn’t into, we’d know,” she says. “He wouldn’t try to spare our feelings.” Since she took up business, their relationship is better than ever. “He’s not a chitchatter, so now there’s always some deal we can talk about.” She also praises her mother, Ivana. “She’s a great negotiator and is extremely motivated and driven. They complemented each other. She worked for my father when I was growing up. She did all the interiors for his properties. She ran the Plaza hotel when he owned it and she ran a casino in Atlantic City.” They are still all involved in each other’s lives. In spite of their acrimonious divorce in 1991, after Donald’s affair with the former beauty queen Marla Maples (Ivana famously said at the time: “Don’t get mad, get everything”), he attended her recent wedding.
So, how does Ivanka manage being a twentysomething girl in a world dominated by fiftysomething men? “I’m a girlie girl,” she says. “I’m not afraid to be feminine, to wear pink to the office. But there is a line to be drawn - I see it all the time, if people get a little too cute - there’s something about leveraging what you’ve got and your feminine wiles, but not to the point where you’re doing yourself a disservice.”
Ivanka’s world might be very different from yours or mine, but her ambition is recognisable. “It has never occurred to me that I have enough on my plate and I should stop now. There is always something better, bigger, sexier than what you’re doing.”
Looking at her here, in her glossy office, with her glossy life and her glossy looks, that is somewhat hard to believe. But if anyone can find it, have no doubt it is her.
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Thanks for the articles Boomer, I really enjoy reading about her 
