If the government of her husband seemed to be a demolition ball in recent days as a demolition ball that runs norms and institutions both domestic and international institutions, the revival of Melania in the theater of the DC Political Life has been a study in contrasts.
She is perhaps the most steadfast supporter of her husband – but she travels next to him on a parallel, if not always intertwined path.
Limitation, discipline and strategy – have been the visual instructions that the First Lady, largely through her deployment of clothing, has adopted for her husband's second presidency.
And the flawless tailor -made, sober gray suit that she chose for the joint session of Tuesday evening congress was no exception.
It is well aware that she cannot step outside of her front door without being decoded and decided by critics, it is no wonder that for the political equivalent of the Oscars – with all major players – with all the major players – she returned to Dior, the brand that is the core of the current responsibilities of the current responsibilities of the current responsibilities of the current responsibilities of the current responsibilities of the current responsibilities First administration.
In the midst of the sea of ​​flashy pink suits that appeared on many Democratic congress members (apparently a feminist protest against Trump), Melania stood out in an ensemble that undoubtedly attracted the attention of her stylist Herve Pierre of her eagle-eyes when the recently avenue of Dior's Flagship shop.
Melania's gray woolen tweed jacket, in the waist cinched with his removable scarf and perfectly paired skirt – all designed by Dior's creative head Maria Grazia Chiuri – ensured that whatever the chaos of Tuesday evening remained, one person stayed in line and on a message.
In 2017, Melania showed up in a black sequins in Michael Kors Rokpak that more cocktail party from the Upper East Side looked like a political partner.
Even and confident – Melania maintained her position centrally by resolutely staying over both stylistic and political struggle.
Worthy of Boardroom, androgynous, in fact, the look was still steeped in the kind of female undertone that extends to the creativity of Christian Dior himself in the late 1940s.
The gray woolen tweed jacket, in the waist cinched with its removable scarf and perfectly paired skirt – all designed by Dior's current creative head Maria Grazia Chiuri – ensured that regardless of the chaos of the evening, one person stayed in line and on a message.
A reinvented twist on the iconic Dior Bar -suit, this was Melania to visit a style process again and to expand that her new standard seems to be as First Lady 2.0 – far away from the people she presented to the world eight years ago.
Indeed think back to 2017. Although not entirely Amateuruur, the First Lady appeared that adorned the congress halls for the first time (and who was not remarkably moved to the White House), showed up in a black sequins Michael Kors -skirt that seemed more cocktail party in the upper East Side than political consort.
At the time, Melania still worked out the balance of her various careers – model, mother, Mogul's wife.
Collecting as much attention for his price tag ($ 9,590 – almost the same amount as the ensemble of Tuesday evening) as his color – which seemed like a direct reprimand for the suffragette white of the female democratic legislators who were present at the time – Melania faced the added insult of Michael Kors's rather public rejection.
In the direction of the Melania we see that the serious Dolce & Gabbana skirt she wore to the State of the Union address of her husband in 2020 now. She chose to look at that year of this year to the lying state of Jimmy Carter-the first time she had returned to Capitol Hill's first term.
In her second turn as First Lady, Melania has doubled on the tailor screen, in particular with the Dolce & Gabbana smoking she wore last month
For her official portrait this year, Melania chose another Black Dolce & Gabbana Tuxedo jacket with a Ralph Lauren Cummerbund and Broek
On Monday she continued the men's clothing theme in a brown Ralph Lauren three -piece pantsuit for the Take It Down Act
Since then she has doubled on the tailors of the razors.
The Dolce & Gabbana Tuxedo Black Blazer with Satin Revers that she wore to organize the National Governors Association Dinner in February, was a glamorous version of the business look she wore for her official portrait, recorded in January.
And on Monday she continued the men's clothing theme in a brown Ralph Lauren three -part pantsuit when she appeared on Capitol Hill to lobby for 'Take It Down Act', aimed at protecting Americans against deepfake and revenge porn.
That was not an accident. In contrast to the majority of women, the stylistic choices of Melania are almost never a measure of a temporary mood. She doesn't wake up on a certain morning and decides something to wear.
With a non-reinforcing feeling of the visual vacuum the role of First Lady requires that she fulfills, she will have approached her, albeit unprecedented in the spectacle of Tuesday evening with the kind of precision that the envy of West Wing employees must be.
Melania would have been clear and concise in the midst of chaos that has shown the presidential ecosystem in recent days, cocoons in the privacy of the White House's privacy when she decided how to navigate best since her husband's second inauguration.
Critics, fashion and otherwise, spent most of the first term of her husband trying to locate – usually through her clothing – where Melania's own loyalty could lie.
But in the midst of escalating arguments about rates and foreign wars, Melania has ensured that her views in this second turn as First Lady remain a mystery.
Turning Ralph Lauren, an icon of the American fashion industry, to a fashion house that is part of one of the largest companies in France, LVMH (a conglomerate that is definitely worried about the impact that future rates can have the profit margins), Melania was just as unclear as always.
