First Lady Melania Trump stood in front of reporters, supporters and colleagues at the Smithsonians National Museum of American History on Friday in an ensemble of frosty wealth essentials a Bottega Veneta peacoat, leather leggings and Christian Louboutin snakeskin heels and extolled the virtues of a slash of black fabric that zigzagged across the white column gown she wore for her husbands second inauguration as president, just over a year ago
And the high-low hem means the length works well for a wide range of heights
For designers and students, it offers a master-class in silhouette, construction, repetition, symbolism and, perhaps most importantly, restraint, the designer added
I ordered the Athena kaftan (shown at the top of the post), the Exuma kaftan in blue toucan and, for something a little more everyday-ish, the Kelsey dress in flamingo, but it was really hard to narrow my choices down
Turn heads in the Show Stopper V2 Leather Dress in Black
In short, anything thats revealing is a no-go