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.
OMG!!! Gag a Maggot!!!
Michelle is no ICON of anything remotely connected to fashion. Someone needs to look up the word ICON in their
Webster’s.
She wore crap that I would call Ghetto Chic. She moves/walks like someone hot-walking a 17 hand Thorobred at the race track after a race. You have to be able to take LONG strides. Those critters have LONG LEGS.
She is built like a pyramid & has a butt the size of a boxcar. I don’t know how any dressmaker dealt with her. IF you got something decent on her, she made it look out of place with her body movements.
Her white ‘toilet paper’ dress looked like a Halloween joke. Her ‘black widow dress made it’s own statement. How many wigs does she have? NONE of that hair is hers. Well—only ‘hers’ in the term that she owns all those wigs.
ICON? What a joke.
What in blazes are these people thinking? Melania’s wardrobe will be far superior to MOOOCHELLE’S.
Keep trying Libs-—you are digging the hole deeper & deeper. Excuse me while I go barf.
Anyone who wants to be exposed to the massive intellect of Michelle Obama should read her Princeton thesis. It is simply amazing.
Well, seeing as Moochelle’s ass looks like the back of an AMC Pacer, I don’t think it’s going to take much to beat that measuring stick.
Mrs. Obama has the Body she has, nothing can change it. She isn’t fat, she is just big boned as they use to say.
That being said, the fact that Liberals have this delusional take on her Wardrobe choices, given the fact that her body shape is difficult to disguise, makes me chuckle.
It looks like her oldest Daughter will end up with the same figure, albeit with a smaller caboose. We are all at the mercy of Genetics.
In the case of Mrs. Obama, she is at the mercy of confused Fashion Designers and the usual Liberal sycophants who lack cognitive function.
IMHO she also displays an air of self importance, yet she has done nothing to deserve it.
Her fashion choices have been so bad, so beyond the pale that I almost think she wears such outfits to see how far her Fans will embarrass themselves with their delusional praise. No doubt she has a list of Useful Idiots she shares with her Husband so they can have a few yuks.
Moochie’s face really does look manly under close inspection.
Actually the fake animal skin looks very good on Michelle.
I agree with someone else on this thread who said she made some good choices and bad choices. Who can really compete with a fashion model anyway.
The Onion?
Warning: you may die (of laughing) reading this.
Yeah, my "intellectual" lawyer looks "professional" like this.
Her ‘designer’ should be taken out and shot against the nearest wall.
the boob/corset belt! lolz
Melania will be her elegant self while Mooch...she did the best she could with what she had.
Good point.
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