Her stylist, her favorite brands ... In Melania Trump's wardrobe
Almost a year after her husband's inauguration, Melania Trump has seen her dress style evolve. If she does not want to get involved as a First Lady, she still decided to surround herself with a stylist but also to pay attention to the designers she chooses.
Melania Trump breaks with the tradition of the First Lady. She prefers to stay in the background and not get involved politically as Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama had done before her. And this stance, in the shadow of her husband and her daughter-in-law Ivanka, is reflected in the choice of her clothes. Melania Trump didn't want to be a First Lady. So it won't be. Speaking in public, very little for her. Let's not talk about the corridors of the White House. She postponed her move to Washington by five months. And it is not really a coincidence.
Melania Trump would have liked to keep her old life, which suited her very well. In the choice of her clothes, the former model has certainly opted for cuts less sexy than those previously chosen on the red carpets. But the style is the same. Melania Trump is impeccable. Always. Not a strand protrudes, the makeup is perfect. She does not shine. She smiles, holds out her hands, waves hello to the crowd. Her Instagram account has become the banner of highly mastered perfection. We see it perfect, flawless, in postures that always put it in value. This is how she also chooses her outfits.
But Melania Trump is aware of it, she has to break to make some effort because clothing is also a form of diplomacy. Result: if she is in France, she wears Dior, as in May 2017 when she met the Macron couple. If she is in Belgium, from Maison Ullens. In Germany, Jil Sander. In Italy from Dolce & Gabbana.
Far from Jackie Kennedy's suits, or the dresses of little unknown designers of Michelle Obama, she composes between her favorite designers and the need to honor the country to which she goes. When she is in the United States? Most of them American designers, history of honoring the aestheticism of the other side of the Atlantic. In his wardrobe, we therefore find Ralph Lauren, self-made man par excellence, Mickael Kors. A bit of Dior for his trips to France. And Dolce & Gabbana, galore, which she now allows herself to wear only when traveling in Italy and Sicily in 2016 where she wore a jacket for $ 51,000.
The need for an advisor
A few days before her husband's inauguration in January 2017, Melania Trump was struggling to find a designer who would dress her up. A shame for this former model, who became the wife of one of the most controversial men in the United States. Tom Ford and Marc Jacobs have publicly declared that they would refuse to dress her. So Melania Trump asked for help from the one who is now her stylist, Hervé Pierre. French designer who worked for big fashion houses like Carolina Herrera or Oscar de La Renta and who especially dressed other first ladies like Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton. A resume that immediately attracted the business man's wife. It was he who then guided him to this pale blue suit, very Jackie Kennedy.
Look that she very quickly left aside to focus on equally classic cuts that highlight her figure more. In general, her dresses mark her often belted waist. Hervé Pierre also does his shopping in stores like Sacks and Bergdorf in New York. Sometimes he travels to Washington to discuss his upcoming outfits. But not always: "If I have to go, I go but if she's in the tower (in New York, editor's note) I can walk there. And she doesn't need me all the time." , he told the New York Times.
Melania Trump has decided to pay for this stylist on her own, while her husband has officially hired a full-time makeup artist and hairdresser at the White House, as reported by our colleagues at Politico. Her own way of keeping a little freedom in oppressive over-media coverage. Because she knows it, Melania Trump is scrutinized at all levels. And an outfit can cleave in an instant. "We talk about everything. It's always pleasant and positive conversations. I always try to find something that respects the protocol, the religion or the country that she is visiting," he told New York Post. But even with so much care, mistakes can happen.
And the episode of the black court shoes with four inches heels worn to visit the victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas will not say the opposite. Vanity Fair magazine uncompromisingly titled "But who wears heels in a hurricane?", Following the many criticisms that have gathered on social networks last August. A mistake like any other for his stylist who puts it into perspective: "It's very creative to think about how the outfit will be perceived. And when we decide, we divide. I'm not always right. I make mistakes and so is she. There is no book to explain 'How to be a Perfect First Lady' ".
