What women wear can often be the focus of critique and controversy -- all the more so when the woman is an ex-model, married to the US president and disembarking in Saudi Arabia. The question of what first lady Melania Trump would wear on her husband's his first foreign trip echoes similar debates around Michelle Obama's decision to wear colour...
May 22, 2017
America's incoming first lady Melania Trump wore an elegant powder blue suit made by iconic US fashion designer Ralph Lauren to her husband's inauguration on Friday and channeling Jacqueline Kennedy. The soft and elegant cashmere dress fell to her knee, paired with a cross-over round neck jacket cut to the waist and matching suede gloves. In a...
Jan 20, 2017
Melania Trump on Thursday picked a little-known New York designer of Hispanic descent and daughter of a wounded veteran, for her first outfit celebrating husband Donald's presidential inauguration. The choice of a knee-length, black coat from Norisol Ferrari for her visit to the Arlington National Cemetery was something of an inspired choice for...
While many designers jumped at the chance to dress first lady Michelle Obama, her replacement is not getting quite the same treatment. Soon-to-be first lady Melania Trump is attending her first event in her new role on Donald Trump’s Inaugural Day on January 20 and has just decided which designers she would like to work with. For her first look,...
Jan 19, 2017
Donald Trump, whose early-morning rants and policy pronouncements on Twitter have left the world hanging on his every typed word, said he doesn't like using the social media platform in comments to air Wednesday. "I don't like tweeting," Trump told Fox News's "Fox & Friends" program. "I have other things I could be doing. But I get very...
Jan 18, 2017
She may be tall, slim and a former model, but incoming first lady Melania Trump faces a new kind of fashion police -- designers refusing to dress her because of her husband's politics. She has posed nude for GQ, modeled in Paris and graced the cover of Vogue, yet what Melania wears to the inaugural balls on Friday night could be the most...
Jan 16, 2017
London - One of the biggest questions currently circulating the designer circuit in the United States remains: "Would you dress Melania Trump?" While some designers were quick to answer the question, the majority have chosen to remain silent, or reflect the question back, although it's clear this is one question that is going nowhere fast. Tommy...
Dec 1, 2016
London - There is a very thin, fine line when it comes to fashion and politics, as U.S designer Tommy Hilfiger has undoubtedly found out. While some fashion designers have chosen to remain mum when its comes to their thoughts and opinion on Donald J. Trump being elected as the 45th president of the United States, others have been unabashedly...
Nov 23, 2016
London - New York-based French fashion designer Sophie Theallet, who has dressed Michelle Obama on many occasions, has issued an open letter vowing never to dress the future First Lady, Melania Trump due to her husband, president-elect Donald Trump’s “racist, sexist and xenophobic” campaign. In the letter, the designer states: “As an independent...
Nov 21, 2016
