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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

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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

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In short, anything thats revealing is a no-go