What Melania Trump wore to the inauguration — including the hat

By BEATRICE DUPUY, Associated Press

While reddish shot caps person go synonymous with President Donald Trump, first woman Melania Trump made her ain millinery-related manner statement, sporting a navy wide-brimmed chapeau by an American decorator on Inauguration Day.

The chapeau designed by Eric Javits shielded the archetypal lady’s eyes arsenic her hubby was sworn successful Monday for the 2nd time. Javits said dressing the archetypal woman has been 1 of the top honors of his career.

“My creation inheritance gave maine an borderline successful bringing harmony and equilibrium to the look by creating chapeau shapes that would flatter and heighten each benignant of face,” helium said successful a statement. “In this circumstantial lawsuit that was not hard to do, successful that Mrs. Trump is blessed with large bony structure, quality and a fantastic consciousness of style.”

The chapeau made its people passim the inauguration ceremony: As Trump went to buss his woman aft entering the Capitol Rotunda, the chapeau near lone country for an aerial kiss. Even now-former President Joe Biden had to navigate astir the chapeau portion trying to speech to her hubby connected the different side.

Trump, speaking successful Emancipation Hall aft the swearing-in ceremony, joked astir his wife’s chapeau astir blowing away. The archetypal woman had held onto her chapeau arsenic a subject chopper taking disconnected with Biden generated wind.

“She astir blew away,” Trump said with a laugh. “She was being elevated disconnected the ground.”

In a departure from 2017’s entity bluish cashmere formal and gloves by Ralph Lauren, this time, Melania Trump paired a muted navy silk wool overgarment with a navy skirt and an ivory silk crepe blouse underneath, each by autarkic American decorator Adam Lippes.

“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,” Lippes said successful a statement. “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.”

Her archetypal inauguration ensemble drew comparisons to Jacqueline Kennedy’s style. Kennedy besides famously wore a pillbox chapeau for her husband’s inauguration successful 1961. But dressing the archetypal woman became a constituent of governmental contention successful 2017, with immoderate designers saying they would not formal the incoming archetypal woman — typically a coveted opportunity. Some societal media users pushed to boycott Ralph Lauren astatine the time.

Fast guardant to 2025, and Ralph Lauren was the decorator of prime for departing archetypal woman Jill Biden, who chose the decorator for her parting look. She opted for a monochromatic purple, from her overgarment to her shoes and gloves, to people the modulation of power.

Ralph Lauren did not instrumentality a petition for comment.

Associated Press writer Jill Colvin contributed to this report.

Originally Published: January 20, 2025 astatine 3:20 PM EST