"Melania is the sphinx of a fake America. Jill more classic, but sprint"
Speak to HuffPost the founder of Palazzo Madamas for a style comparison between First Ladies
Melania Trump "will remain in the annals as one of the most random figures in the history of the United States, the pop sphinx of an America where the fake is more credible than the truth". The merciless analysis of the (probable former) first lady comes directly from Palazzo Madamas, "a permanent observatory on the style of strong powers", an account recently created on social networks. HuffPost reached out by phone to the mysterious founder - a former fashion designer who today studies the looks of the powerful - to ask him to make a comparison between Donald Trump's wife and the (likely) next first lady, Jill Biden, Joe's wife, who in this moment is one step away from the White House.
"The comparison is not possible", he explains, "because in any case Jill Biden was already the wife of a vice president (her current husband Joe)" in the Obama era, therefore during the term of a "very popular president", and she is a woman who has been in the spotlight all her life, given that her husband was already a senator and an experienced politician ”. In short, she is used to the media spotlight, “she knows what to say and what not to say, she knows how to move”. Unlike Melania, "even though she is undoubtedly the most photogenic first lady in history, therefore favored as a style icon", she found herself in that role "without having the tools to do so, so much so that it is all too easy to wear her" .
Her wardrobe? "In these four years he has given us a series of authentic fake pearls: from soap opera power dressing for state travel, to 'Top Gun' outfits, up to 'My Africa', with a quotationism so literal that it borders on cosplay (the practice of dressing up as characters from video games, comics or fantasy literature, ed) ". Almost as if she were "one who plays a role and not one who is first lady". The clothes themselves "fit her well, they are impeccable, perfect, but they are dumb, they don't say much" and are often "out of context".
When she came to Italy "she wanted to pay homage to our country by choosing Dolce & Gabbana, but the over $ 50,000 coat she wore did not help her popularity". She dresses "as a wife of the US President would have dressed in the eighties, when the first women of America had no voice and she only looked at how they furnished the White House and what charities they supported". It is a "conservative style", which "does not take risks" and perhaps in the end "it's better this way": the times he tried to take a little more risky steps "it was a disaster", like when "he put on the famous parka with the words' I really don't care. Do u? ’And had just been with her husband to visit a refugee camp’ ... ". On that occasion "it was not understood what she was referring to and it was completely misunderstood".
Before her there was Michelle Obama, "with a crazy sense of style, who mastered the tool of fashion and who immediately understood that the clothes of the first lady are not a question of sexism, but a channel through which one can do policy". She understood this when she wore "American designers, promoting young designers, which is the same thing that Kate Middleton does in England", who even on the occasion of her official engagement wore "a dress of a famous English ready-to-wear which then sold out in a week across the country ".
With her choice, she "wanted to support that sector of the economy". Melania was "the twist in the twist of Trump's election" and with her "suddenly we found ourselves like in an Almodovar film". Maybe "she wanted nothing more than to marry billionaire Trump and have a child," so it's likely she found herself in a bigger position than she is. "The thing fell between her head and neck and she didn't know how to manage it well: let's think of the plagiarism of a speech by Michelle Obama, an episode that helped make it a night time meme." The founder of Palazzo Madamas never stops and issues his sentence: “From a paradoxical and comic point of view, her communication errors are fantastic, unattainable”.
The wife of the democrat Biden, on the other hand, "knows how to manage her media presence and has a very different profile: she is a university professor of English". Her point of contact could be “beauty and the fact that she too had a brief interlude in modeling like Melania, before meeting Joe Biden”. Unlike Mrs. Trump, however, she "no private jet, no nude photos on fur and wearing only jewelry". Jill is "a woman who cares and has a certain bearing". Her style is "fairly conservative, but sprint", like a classic American "strong-willed lady, who if there is something to do she does it without asking her husband's permission".
Looking at the photos of her online, you can see her passion for fashionable shoes, such as Dior's J’adior and in the past Valentino's rockstuds. "Her - she points out the former pen of the fashion system - is a story that has yet to be written, but judging by how she faced the electoral campaign, it seems to me that she has never put on particularly horrible things" . We will see if the designers "will compete to dress her or if they will do like Tom Ford who refused to dress Melania, even if she then motivated her choice by saying that a first lady should wear not too expensive clothes". Jill Biden's is a “mature beauty that she wears naturally and not with a plastic surgery mask”.
