Neilson Barnard/WireImage(NEW YORK) — When Donald Trump walked on stage Tuesday night at the New York Hilton Midtown to deliver his victory speech, Melania Trump’s ivory apparently also heads turn.
The first lady-to-be chose an American designer, Ralph Lauren, but the silk crepe jumpsuit was made in Italy.
The jumpsuit — which retails at upscale Fifth Avenue department store Bergdorf Goodman for $4,000 — did grab attention because of its fashion-forward silhouette: A one-shoulder neckline, a half sleeve at the left side, wide legs with a hem that falls to the floor.
The Slovenian-born former model is no stranger to Ralph Lauren. She wore pieces by the Bronx-born designer to the third and final presidential debate.
And her decision to wear white is also noteworthy.
Why? Because she may have taken a cue from her husband’s former rival, Hillary Clinton, and in turn, the suffragists of yesteryear.
When Clinton wore a white pantsuit — also by Ralph Lauren — last month to the presidential debate, Booth Moore, a senior fashion editor for The Hollywood Reporter and Pret-a-Reporter, told ABC News, “The choice of a white suit … harkened back to the not-so-distant past, when suffragists wore white to promote their struggle to gain the right to vote.”
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