Melania Trump wedding dress: First Lady’s Christian Dior gown worth £80,000
Melania Trump wedding dress was every bit as lavish as you would expect a billionaire’s wife to be. The first lady wore a $100,000 (£80,121.79) Christian Dior gown with extravagant details to her wedding in 2005.
The dress, which was worn by the 46-year-old in a 14-page story in Vogue magazine, took 550 hours to embroider and was worth double her step-daughter Ivanka Trump’s.
Melania became Donald Trump’s third wife during the nuptials said to have cost $1 million (£800,576.42).
The dress was sleveless and made with 300 ft of duchesse satin, with a 16 ft veil.
Later the bride changed into a Vera Wang silk and tulle dress, with a leg slit.
Donald Trump reportedly gave Melania a 12-carat, emerald-cut Graff ring, while a 200 lb cake for the ceremony took two months to design.
Ivanka Trump has made her mark in the First Family fashion stakes with her choice of outfits for her father’s inauguration on Friday and his election last November - but what did she wear for her own big day when she married real estate giant Jared Kushner?
The business woman and former model looked sultry in a dark red velvet wrap dress at the national prayer service on Saturday, and opted for a slender black, long-sleeved dress for her husband’s swearing-in ceremony at the White House today, but the 35-year-old has been making statements in the fashion world for almost a decade.
Back in October 2009, she converted to Judaism to wed Jared Kushner, an American real estate investor and developer, and although she opted for a more conservative dress for the occasion, she still dazzled onlookers with her choice of gown.
According to Glamour magazine, Ivanka sported a classic, custom-made Vera Wang dress, inspired by Grace Kelly.
Although it’s not known how much she spent on the gown, it has an estimated cost of $50,000.
Express.co.uk charted Melania Trump’s fashion evolution, from cleavage-baring evening wear to a more fashion forward and conservative style.
The former model, who was born and raised in Sevnica, Slovenia, has a penchant for glamorous dressing, always seen in stilettos and usually in a dress.
Melania often attends events with her billionaire husband - so dressing up is understandably essential.
The 45-year-old’s dress sense has evolved from her earlier years, when tight and shiny garments seemed to make up a great deal of the European’s wardrobe.
At an event in 2003 Melania wore a Little Bo Peep-inspired white satin dress with a garish pink trim.
She paired the dress with bizarre, matching slippers which gave the impression she may have forgotten to change into the shoes she had been intending to wear.
