Posted on 01/23/2017 6:27:08 PM PST by drewh
Wife of US President-elect Donald Trump faces a daunting challenge as she enters the White House
When she enters the White House, Melania Trump will be the first first lady who is the third wife of a US President. Mrs Trump is still exploring her style as the first lady. However, her interest in fashion is obvious.
In terms of fashion, the future US first lady has been seen to favour slim-fitting dresses, but her choices of outfits became more sober and straightforward as her husband’s presidential election campaign progressed last year.
Guo Chao, a fashion director at L’Officiel, the French fashion magazine, said that Trump’s taste in clothes could sometimes be unpredictable. “Compared with Mrs Obama, Mrs Trump is still exploring her style as the first lady. However, her interest in fashion is obvious. What we could expect from her in the future will not necessarily be perfect, but will be wonderful.”
Her predecessor as first lady, Michelle Obama, will hand over the keys to the White House and leave behind an impressive eight-year legacy of sartorial diplomacy. It is a legacy in power dressing that her successor, Melania, may find quite difficult to trump.
Obama started things off with a surprise choice of attire – in front of millions of television viewers – as she made her debut on America’s most significant night-time talk show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, in October 2008, the month before her husband won the US presidential election. Her outfit – simple, straightforward, yet stylish, understated and easy on the eye – set the tone for her sense of fashion over the next eight years. Did Michelle Obama influence fashion more than Jackie Kennedy?
The expensive looking gold pencil skirt, yellow and brown tank-top and yellow cardigan – made by the American label J Crew – together cost less than US$500. Michelle Obama is an intellectual. Her style is not glamorous, rather simple and straightforward. She’s a professional, and her clothes reflect that she’s a lawyer Obama, a Princeton-Harvard-trained lawyer, is widely considered to be the best – and arguably the only real – fashion icon out of all the nation’s First Ladies since Jacqueline Kennedy, whose husband, John F Kennedy, served as US president from 1961-63. Obama’s choice of outfits over the course of her husband’s two terms in office have helped to promote American fashion brands and designers and had a huge impact around the world. Some of her choices have been stunning, including a sleeveless shimmering chainmail, rose-gold Versace gown worn at her final state dinner in October.
“During the US Presidential campaign she started to dress more conservatively, because for most Americans, they still prefer conservative [people],” Tang said. Melania Trump – with her step daughter, Ivanka Trump, standing behind her – shakes hands with former US President Bill Clinton before the second televised presidential debate in October, 2016. “However, the brands and materials she chose were still really luxurious. From a fashion point of view, she knows how to dress well.”
She added: “Melania Trump’s sense of style reflects her image as a professional woman, someone who runs her own very successful company – like the kind of women I often see in American TV dramas – someone that is independent and very capable. “In contrast, Mrs Obama’s dresses have often had the style of dresses from the 1950s and 60s. Perhaps she prefers to be a woman behind her husband.” Peng may appear not only at the same public occasions alongside the new US first lady, but also America’s “first daughter”, Ivanka Trump – a businesswoman with her own eponymous line of clothing, jewellery, perfume and accessories, whose sleek fashion sense has been complimented by the media.
Already, Ivanka – the daughter of Donald Trump and his first wife, Ivana Trump – has been more in the spotlight than her stepmother, Melania, and will most likely take on the role of a White House hostess when Mrs Trump spends her time in New York. Young, beautiful and Ivy League-educated, Ivanka stepped onto the stage during her father’s election campaign and impressed the media and audiences around the world with her confidence and charisma. Just like Ivanka’s own fashion brand, her fashion choices represent the “millennial generation” – young stylish professional women who are busy living their lives while combining work, love and their families.
If she doesn’t give the WH drapes, shower curtains, table cloths, and area rugs to her designer, she’ll be fine.
Really? Who cares? I don’t care about Melania; I care about what her husband does. This is like teen girl gossip.
If I didn’t know better I would think this is a great satire piece...
No back-up warning buzzer needed either.
Barack should have had her run laps around the white hut until that caboose was small enough to fit through the door on the Metro.
Two axe handles wide.
It is impossible to dress a lady devoid of grace and beauty with a dress of grace and beauty. Melania has grace and beauty and humility.............
Well, she ceased being proud of her country at 12:01PM EST Jan. 20, 2017.
I have to admit that when I saw the photos of the White House Halloween party I thought that Emperor Obama and his consort Michelle had decided to skip the costumes. Emperor Barack looked like Urkel as usual and Michelle was wearing something that looked like it was looted from a Salvation Army store as usual.
Boy, was I shocked to find out that Michelle's outfit was really a "Cat Woman" costume!
Therefore, to prevent further mistakes of this type I consulted with the Country Store's crack team of fashion consultants and came up with this handy guide to whether or not Michelle Obama is wearing a Halloween costume.
Q: Does Michelle Obama's outfit vaguely resemble the skin of a wild animal?
If the answer is yes, then Michelle is wearing a Halloween costume.
Q: Is Michelle Obama wearing something that looks like it was made out of Nick Nolte's old Hawaiian shirt?
If the answer is yes, then Michelle is wearing one of her high fashion outfits.
Q: Is Michele Obama wearing something that looks like the couch your aunt had back in the 1970's?
If so, then it it is another of Michelle's regular outfits.
Q: Does Michelle Obama look like Flip Wilson when he was dressed up as Geraldine?
This is another indication Michelle is wearing a haute couture outfit some con artist designer sold her and it is not a Halloween costume
Q: Is Michelle Obama wearing a very wide belt just under her negligible bust and twirling a hula hoop?
Hey, the wide belt is a primo fashion accessory and like Michelle you have to have no chest (or be a cross dresser) to wear it so it is plenty exclusive and NOT a Halloween costume no matter what it looks like.
Whew! That was sure exhaustive and I thank my fashion consultants, but I'm still not convinced that I won't make the same mistake again. Maybe next year Michelle can just go for the Joker clown make-up at Halloween:
LOL! Let the Wookie win!
Anyone, who says that comparing the Current First Lady to the First Wookie is daunting, has lost any sense of reality.
When Melania got out of the beast with President Trump and Barron and walked on the street during the parade, she won the hearts of men and women, who love and appreciate real beauty and character.
She will drive the lesbos and hate filled lib women into total depression the next 8 years.
That woman had anger tattooed on her humorless face.
For starters, First Lady Melania Trump will not look like a maid in fine clothes, she’ll look like a lady.
It is, indeed, difficult to compete with someone who has no fashion sense whatsoever.
Looks like she is going fly fishing, and already caught about a dozen flies.
I do believe that load has gotten even wider with that red dress she wore Friday.
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