Melania Trump's stylist reveals why it's so difficult to dress her

Melania Trump has go celebrated for her understated fashion sense, often opting for European designers similar Christian Dior, Valentino, and Dolce & Gabbana. 

To marque her elegant ensembles happen, the First Lady works straight with Hervé Pierre Braillard, the erstwhile originative manager of Carolina Herrera, but galore times, he's not having customized pieces made. 

Pierre revealed to The New York Times in 2017 that overmuch of what Melania wears is consecutive disconnected the rack. 

When the erstwhile exemplary does deterioration American designers, she volition excavation wrong her ain closet for archival items from precocious extremity manner houses, oregon Pierre procures the pieces for her directly.

Pierre, who antecedently worked for Oscar de la Renta, Vera Wang, and Christian Dior, volition spell buying without saying who he's pulling pieces for. 

'I spell to Bergdorf, I spell to Saks. Michael Kors, Dior,' the designer, who besides worked astatine Balmain, revealed. 'What is challenging is erstwhile I cannot accidental what it is for.' 

Instead, Pierre has to inquire if it was precocious worn connected the reddish carpet, due to the fact that helium doesn't privation the 54-year-old to extremity up connected a 'Who Wore It Better List.' 

'I don't truly bash that for the bully crushed that the manner manufacture is not precise welcoming [of Trump.] That's nary secret,' Pierre told WWD in November 2024. 

Pierre told Women's Wear Daily that 95 percent of what helium buys for her is purchased astatine freestanding stores, arsenic opposed to astatine the designer's showrooms.

He revealed that erstwhile once helium was shopping in a designer's store connected Madison Avenue successful Manhattan, helium was told that helium 'was not invited here.' 

However, helium would not disclose the shop's sanction due to the fact that helium did not privation to springiness them 'free publicity.' 

'Some are precise open-minded and would beryllium capable to bash thing special. But a batch of radical are not,' the personage stylist continued. 

Pierre explained that erstwhile helium asked an American marque to marque a formal oregon marque for Melania, helium was told they couldn't bash that, adjacent if it was simply making an ensemble successful a antithetic color.  

The French-born stylist, who's based successful New York City, ended up designing the gown she wore to the 2017 inaugural balls, arsenic good arsenic the gown she wore successful 2025.  

As manner fans waited patiently to find retired which decorator Melania would opt for after galore of the large designers shunned her during her husband's archetypal presidency, she chose her stylist, instead.

Pierre crafted an elegant strapless achromatic silk crepe gown with 2 achromatic bands crossed the chest. 

Melania paired the gown with a diamond brooch created by Harry Winston successful 1955 worn arsenic a choker and white Manolo Blahnik pointy-toed pumps.

In a statement, Pierre said: 'It is simply a large grant to person collaborated with the archetypal woman connected the plan for her inaugural dress.' 

Pierre has been paid handsomely for his styling services.  

In 2023, authorities filings revealed that the pro-Trump Save America PAC paid Pierre much than $200,000 for his services.

The PAC made the payments successful monthly $18,000 increments, labeling them arsenic 'strategy consulting.' 

During the swearing successful ceremony, Melania made definite to take American designers. 

The First Lady wore a navy wool overgarment from Adam Lippes paired with an oversized chapeau from Eric Javits to be the inaugural parade wrong the Capital One Arena successful Washington, D.C.

Adam lives betwixt New York City and the Berkshires portion Eric is based successful Miami and some crafted customized pieces her inauguration manner statement.

Many designers indispensable woody with getting pushback from their clients some successful idiosyncratic and connected societal media.  

Adam shared a connection astir the overgarment connected Instagram, writing, 'The contented of the statesmanlike inauguration embodies the quality of American ideology and contiguous we had the grant to formal our archetypal lady, Mrs. Melania Trump.' 

The Buffalo, New York-born manner decorator continued: 'Mrs. Trump's outfit was created by immoderate of America's finest craftsmen and I instrumentality large pridefulness successful showing specified enactment to the world.' 

Pierre commented, 'A maestro pièce Adam… it is SO chic... and the making… everything is FLAWLESS CONGRATULATIONS.' 

Many praised the look, calling it 'pure class' and 'breathtaking' though immoderate took contented with the American decorator dressing her. 

'I wonderment however overmuch your psyche cost,' 1 commenter wrote. 

Another deed back, 'I don't cognize who those naysayers are, but they deficiency quality and taste.'