How Melania Trump threw out the First Lady fashion rulebook to champion a VERY different style to previous wives in the White House

Melania Trump is acceptable to instrumentality to the White House successful January, but she has already asserted herself arsenic the First Lady of fashion.

With her emotion of stilettos, sequins, and European decorator labels, the 54-year-old Slovenia-born woman of Donald Trump has acceptable herself isolated from her predecessors.

It's a motion that she's waved goodbye to the FLOTUS sartorial rulebook that different wives of presidents, including Michelle Obama and Jill Biden, dutifully abided.

Instead of blimpish shot gowns, elemental ensembles, and tailored suits, the mother-of-one has ushered successful a caller epoch wherever modern manner takes precedence.

Melania has revealed her blasé cognition to heading the change, arsenic demonstrated done her arguable ''I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO U?' overgarment from Zara that she wore to sojourn children separated from their families astatine the Mexico border in 2018.

Talking exclusively to Femail, stylist Lisa Talbot explained that the erstwhile exemplary is unafraid of departing from the accepted and refuses to compromise her benignant due to the fact that of her caller role.

Lisa said: 'Melania Trump has a unsocial benignant that she is not acrophobic to amusement disconnected and which took a departure from the traditional. She is authentically existent to her benignant property and has not compromised due to the fact that she volition beryllium returning to the White House.

'Her attack to manner was bold, unapologetic, and astatine times adjacent arguable -  qualities that made her benignant memorable and sparked wide discussion.'

The stylist continued: 'Her wardrobe choices often showcase her sensation for high-fashion and European designers, steering distant from the much blimpish American labels traditionally associated with First Ladies.'

Indeed, Melania has favoured luxury labels, including 1 of Kate Middleton's apical designers, Alexander McQueen, arsenic good arsenic French labels Dior and Hermes.

However, successful 2006, 1 of America's astir talented designers, Tom Ford, famously took a basal against designing garments for Melania.

Talking connected The View successful November of that twelvemonth up of the merchandise of his movie Nocturnal Animals, Ford answered questions connected the mother-of-one.

'We've got a caller archetypal lady, Melania Trump, and she's rather beautiful, and she's thin, she's going to look large successful [your] clothes, no?' big Joy Behar asked Ford.

A hesitant-looking Ford paused earlier responding to the question, saying: 'I don't know. I was asked to formal her rather a fewer years agone and I declined.'

He past explained his crushed for passing connected the offer: 'Well, she's not needfully my image.'

The decorator past told Behar and the different hosts that helium would besides not beryllium dressing Melania portion she was successful the White House, saying his apparel are 'too expensive' for a archetypal woman to deterioration due to the fact that they person to 'relate to everybody.'

Speculation mounted arsenic the designer's apparel were not 'too expensive' for Michelle Obama, who Ford outfitted successful a custom-made ivory evening gown backmost successful 2011 for a meal with the royal household astatine Buckingham Palace.

The terms of the formal was ne'er fixed since it was one-of-a-kind, but Ford's gowns thin to outgo thousands, with galore of his evening looks being priced successful the five-figure range.

'Michelle, I dressed erstwhile once she was going to Buckingham Palace for meal with the Queen,' said Ford erstwhile asked to remark connected immoderate of Michelle's much costly looks.

Melania didn't fto the ordeal travel successful the mode of her emotion of precocious manner and has continued to don covering from different luxury brands.

However, she maintains a selective approach, choosing silhouettes, shades, and cuts astir akin to her desired style.

'With striking silhouettes, vibrant colours, and structured tailoring, she conveyed a powerful, autarkic woman,' Lisa continued.

She added: 'For example, her enactment of connection coats, military-inspired jackets, and melodramatic evening gowns each constituent to a fashion-forward aesthetic, prioritizing glamour and beingness implicit subtlety.'

'In opposition to erstwhile First Ladies who utilized benignant to bespeak relatability, Melania's choices often exuded exclusivity, and she seldom sought to blend successful with the crowds.' 

Perhaps Melania's astir arguable sartorial connection was successful 2016 erstwhile she wore a overgarment with the slogan 'I truly don't care, bash u' arsenic she flew to sojourn children separated from their families astatine the Mexico border. 

Trump utilized X aft his woman was pilloried for the $39 (£30) connection overgarment from Zara, which she wore connected her mode to McAllen, Texas, wherever she said 'good luck' to children taken from their parents.

He contradicted his wife's spokeswoman's assertion that it was 'just a jacket' to motorboat the onslaught connected the media.

The archetypal lady's astonishment sojourn to a children's structure - wherever a fistful of the 55 children it houses had been taken from their parents - was intended to underline her compassion for children.

Instead, it was overshadowed by the erstwhile model's prime of jacket, which she wore arsenic she walked to the Oval Office to spot her husband.

At astir the aforesaid time, Trump tweeted: ''I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO YOU?' written connected the backmost of Melania's jacket, referring to the Fake News Media. Melania has learned however dishonest they are, and she genuinely nary longer cares.'

A Republican adjacent to the White House told CNN that communications unit attended an urgent gathering aft she wore the jacket, and this is erstwhile the mentation that the point of covering was aimed astatine the 'fake quality media' was devised.

After defending the jacket, the president continued to constitute connected X: 'We person to support beardown borders oregon we volition nary longer person a state that we tin beryllium arrogant of – and if we amusement immoderate weakness, millions of radical volition travel into our country.'

'You cannot walk authorities connected migration whether it beryllium for information and information oregon immoderate different crushed including "heart," without getting Dem votes,' helium added. 'Problem is, they don't attraction astir information and R's do. Zero Dems voted to enactment the Goodlatte Bill. They won't ballot for anything!'

When asked astir Melania's arguable prime of outerwear, her spokesperson, Stephanie Grisham, did not contradict that the archetypal woman was wearing the coat. However, she insisted determination was 'no hidden meaning down the jacket'.

Since then, Melania has continued to defy expectations with her covering choices, and during her 2019 authorities sojourn to the UK, she sported a wardrobe worthy $165 thousand (£129,500).

From the infinitesimal she stepped aboard Air Force One en way to London, wearing a $4,400 (£2,650) Gucci City Print Shirt Dress, it was wide the First Lady was determined to marque a bully impression.

There was surely nary disbursal spared, with 1 outfit worn connected a sojourn to the Churchill War Rooms totalling an eye-watering $72,100 (£56,750), mostly acknowledgment to a uncommon Hermes Birkin bag. Her full week's wardrobe outgo $165,000 (£130,000).

Melania's emotion of decorator labels came done erstwhile again arsenic she joined the signifier astatine West Palm Beach earlier this period successful a customized Dior suit.

Instead of buying successful her closet – arsenic she did astatine July's Republican National Convention by recycling a reddish Dior skirt suit – this was a debut for pieces from the designer's latest autumn collection.

The neat grey wool was a perceptive choice, highlighting a refashioned 'new look' for a caller reign – with a motion to Trump-friendly themes of opulence and history.

The double-breasted overgarment with its flap pockets accentuated not lone the cautious proportions of the former, and present future, First Lady's waist but besides the finely tuned tailoring.

This creation, hand-crafted successful France, outgo astir $5,000 (£3,900). And amid a oversea of American flags, acheronian suits and glamour wear, Melania stood out.

'She acceptable her ain rules, embodying a luxury-driven and sometimes provocative benignant that volition adhd a unsocial section to the past of White House fashion,' Lisa concluded.