Melania Trump

[brandon J pierre]

I cant be the only one here who thinks she looks monstrous and the furthest thing from being stylish? * tumbleweed *

She looks militant, I love a hat but that's extremely dark.

 

[proseccotabis]

She looks militant, I love a hat but that's extremely dark

She looks horrendous. Her face expression alone makes the outfit worse

 

[KoV]

Come on, monstrous? Horrendous? The furthest thing from being stylish? If you're calling HER those things, fair enough. But this particular outfit?

You don't have to care for the outfit she wore (I love the hat, the rest is well tailored but too nondescript to have a strong opinion about) and you certainly don't have to like her, but such overstated critiques of her look have little to do with the clothes, that much is clear.

 

[EDEN21]

Melania is definitely our second best-dressed First Lady after Mrs. Jacqueline Onassis, but unlike Jackie O I don't predict Melania changing the American Fashion landscape and I wouldn't call her a "fashion icon". She just has good taste and a tall, slim figure, but I don't see women clamoring to get the "Melania Look" like they were for the "Jackie Look."

 

[jeanclaude]

First time she made 60s Jackie Kennedy cosplay...and now she made 80s Nancy Reagan cosplay...groundbreaking!

 

[MyNameIs]

The fashion and media elites' desperate refusal to at least acknowledge her style (forget about endorsing or praising it) is but one example of why they've lost all credibility. She, obviously, always look impeccable. The inauguration look is iconic. I love how she's able to be so understated yet bold.

 

[JohannesL]

Melania is definitely our second best-dressed First Lady after Mrs. Jacqueline Onassis

Michelle O begs to differ, but I agree that Melania is better dressed than Jill Biden, HRC and Laura Bush due to the fact that she can unabashedly pull outfits from those major houses like Dior and Chanel because her husband is wealthy and can afford it unlike other first ladies who just pretended to modest even they are from the same two corrupt parties.

 

[BalkaniStaCouture]

First Lady Melania Trump wearing Herve Pierre and looking glamorous for the Commander in Chief Inaugural Ball in Washington D.C. on Jan. 20.
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[JohannesL]

If not for the sake of wearing American designers, she should have just worn the Dior and LV sets that Arnault gifted her.

 

[Caffeine]

Melania is definitely our second best-dressed First Lady after Mrs. Jacqueline Onassis, but unlike Jackie O I don't predict Melania changing the American Fashion landscape and I wouldn't call her a "fashion icon". She just has good taste and a tall, slim figure, but I don't see women clamoring to get the "Melania Look" like they were for the "Jackie Look."

Melania or not, if NYC subway gets safer I'll start wearing my Manolos again. Now I have to dress in anticipation of a chase...(yes, I was followed by a crazy homeless person at Union Square station a couple of years ago. Had to run and step up and then down platform stairs for safety.) Right now. stilettos are not compatible with subway commute.

 

[GoldenPetals]

Anna W must be so angry.

 

[Caffeine]

Anna W must be so angry.

Fuming

 

[Marc10]

Really not what seeing what’s so incredible about these looks, even if I put my personal political bias aside.

The hat is ugly, it’s a weird proportion that it’s not big enough to be glamorous nor small enough to be sophisticated. It wasn’t even necessary since it was indoors. And the way it was framed so low, covering half her face, along with the black outfit and her overall demeanor, made it seem like she was attending a funeral. I don’t like the gala dress either, and especially the choker.

Their supporters try very hard to paint her as this ultra stylish icon, but her looks always have this hint of nouveau riche tackiness to me.

 

[Caffeine]

Just curious, how does it work in the fashion world? If you are Adam Lippes or Herve Pierre, do you basically get cancelled by 70% of the fashion world including Vogue?

 

[proseccotabis]

Really not what seeing what’s so incredible about these looks, even if I put my personal political bias aside.

The hat is ugly, it’s a weird proportion that it’s not big enough to be glamorous nor small enough to be sophisticated. It wasn’t even necessary since it was indoors. And the way it was framed so low, covering half face, along with the black outfit and her overall demeanor, made it seem like she was attending a funeral. I don’t like the gala dress either, and especially the choker.

Their supporters try very hard to paint her as this ultra stylish icon, but her looks always have this hint of nouveau riche tackiness to me.

Same here and yet my comment was deleted because some people are too sensitive about their idols lol. Melania is literally the furthest thing from someone stylish. Even her make up screams cheap

 

[Yohji]

Really not what seeing what’s so incredible about these looks, even if I put my personal political bias aside.

The hat is ugly, it’s a weird proportion that it’s not big enough to be glamorous nor small enough to be sophisticated. It wasn’t even necessary since it was indoors. And the way it was framed so low, covering half face, along with the black outfit and her overall demeanor, made it seem like she was attending a funeral. I don’t like the gala dress either, and especially the choker.

Their supporters try very hard to paint her as this ultra stylish icon, but her looks always have this hint of nouveau riche tackiness to me.

Her makeup is always so cheap-looking which is a tell-tale sign of nouveau riche as you mentioned.

That being said, she did wear some nice looks during the last administration. (Just about the only positive thing that came out of it.)

@MyNameIs - you really tried it. Let's stop trying to act like they are the underdogs and so hard done by. Literally every major fashion publication has reported on Melania, Ivanka and Usha's outfits including Vogue and WWD. Oscar de la Renta and Givenchy have made custom looks for them and posted about it on their socials. LVMH was represented at the inauguration. So who exactly is ignoring them? It feels very much different this time as evidenced by the billionaires present yesterday.

(And no, I didn't like the genocide enablers who were last in office either.)

 

[brandon J pierre]

Michelle O begs to differ, but I agree that Melania is better dressed than Jill Biden, HRC and Laura Bush due to the fact that she can unabashedly pull outfits from those major houses like Dior and Chanel because her husband is wealthy and can afford it unlike other first ladies who just pretended to modest even they are from the same two corrupt parties.

There was a deeper reason for that

 

[Ninocka98]

amazing, my beautiful eastern girl

 

[brandon J pierre]

This is a wonderful fashion subject I love how class and race all mixed up together can really show off the difference between money and style. Taste is wonderfully subjective. I think the white women of the Trump administration are obviously going backwards ( not bad a bad thing ) They are putting a firm foot down on the haves and the have nots. It's fantastic being an American one minute you're a nobody from some Latin country the next minute you're sitting front row over natural Born American senators. One minute you're from Yugoslavia the next minute you're standing next to the president fantastic couldn't happen anywhere else.

Can someone please open up a thread on presidential wives and their looks.

 

[EDEN21]

Can someone please open up a thread on presidential wives and their looks.

Wonderful idea and I can't believe there isn't already one. The intersection between fashion and politics with First ladies is fascinating. So many conflicting demands of a president's wife to be attractive yet modest, fashion-forward yet conservative, supporting national vs international labels , and of course the optics of the wife of a world leader wearing expensive clothing bought with money largely generated by the citizens amidst socio-economic unrest

And of course the iconic lewks and personalities, for example,

Eva Perón


Imelda Marcos infamous shoe addiction



Carla Bruni's stint as first lady of France looking more like a senior Vogue editor than a first lady


Brigitte Macron's terminally Parisienne style


and many many more.