And I agree with the others that say she needs to snub them back. Stick with those designers that supported her the first time around.
Posted on 01/12/2025 12:04:01 PM PST by simpson96
As Melania Trump is on her way to starting a new career move, going back to her First Lady days, all eyes will be on her fashion picks for the Inauguration Day, especially since the last political affair fared out on a controversial note. In January 2017, the former model settled for a £5,500 powder blue cashmere dress and bolero, thanks to Ralph Lauren stepping up as one of the few designers to volunteer to create an outfit for her on a big day for the US presidency's new chapter.
This time around, a new wave has swept in. Although major fashion giants wanted to steer clear of Donald Trump’s “toxic” brand of politics years ago, countless big players in the industry are now knocking at their door so that Melania could be seen flaunting their creation on January 20. Now that the incoming first lady has “come out from under husband’s shadow,” as highlighted by David Adler, founder of Washington high society magazine Washington Dossier, she is equally playing the game in her own rights. While her final outfit choice is still “up in the air,” Toni Holt Kramer, founder of the Trumpettes support group, affirmed that her final piece “will go down in history.”
Contrary to Trump’s first presidency, the mood surrounding the Trump family has shifted. Melania’s longtime designer friend Herve Pierre had told Woman’s Wear Daily that in light of brands “shunning” her out, he had to buy clothes “off the rack” for her during the first term. With endless options at her disposal this time, Pierre is of the opinion that Melania will ultimately go for a US brand at a time when the “America First” rhetoric is possibly at its loudest. It is also believed that Melania and her sister, Ines, her trustworthy confidante, have been “considering” outfits this week at Mar-a-Lago.
Consequently, Holt Kramer told the Daily Mail, “Everyone wants to dress Melania” after Donald Trump’s landslide victory against Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential elections. “Things are very different this time around. When President Trump was first elected back in 2016, Melania was treated very badly indeed,” she reiterated. However, with 2025, the tide appears to have been flipped entirely now that brands that previously refused to dress her are also turning up at her door. “She was shunned and treated appallingly but acted with nothing but class,” Kramer added. “It must have been hard for her. Now people are begging to dress her.”
Moschino’s creative director, Jeremy Scott (clients include Beyonce and Lady Gaga), and French designer Sophie Theallet were a few of the many designers who famously refused to back Melania years ago in an attempt to visibly distance themselves from Donald Trump. Emphasising that he would “never” collaborate with the former model, Scott said, “Obviously [Melania] looks great, but I can’t divorce it from who she is. I don’t know Melania.”
Meanwhile, Theallet, a favourite of Oprah Winfrey and Jennifer Lopez, wrote in an open letter: “I will not participate in dressing or associating in any way with the next First Lady. The rhetoric of racism, sexism and xenophobia unleashed by her husband’s presidential campaign are incompatible with the shared values we live by.”
She should stay loyal to those who didn’t snub her
Carolina Herrera
Ralph Lauren
Dolce Gabbana
Diane von Furstenberg
Phoebe Philo formerly of Celine
Eff the rest who snubbed her especially that witch Wintour at Vogue
Let them eat cake.
I hope she tells them all to go pound sand!
And I agree with the others that say she needs to snub them back. Stick with those designers that supported her the first time around.
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At least the dress was long enough to cover her 🎾🥎⚾️🏀⚽️
So what do they want to do? Add a boob belt? Cause that worked out so well for the Obanination
No boob belts and 1970s sofa upholstery?
She should wear her own designs. She made her millions in fashion and doesn’t need some Trump hating fashion “designer” to put their rags in her.
That or find a young, up and coming designer.
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