Melania Trump in white. Melania Trump returned to the White House and showed how she decorated it for Christmas. Melania's free style of clothing was liked by many
Once again she amazed the public with her exquisite toilets
Trump's wife is often called a style "icon" thanks to her fashionable looks. It is not surprising that the other day she once again confirmed her status.
The First Lady invited schoolchildren with whom she discussed problematic issues in American education.
For the official meeting, Donald Trump's wife wore fairly simple but very stylish clothes.
The First Lady appeared before schoolchildren in a bright jumper and a zipped denim skirt. To complete her look, Melania Trump picked up heels and did makeup with an emphasis on her eyes.
“A productive conversation took place at the White House. Thank you to all the students who shared their thoughts and feelings with me. I know that together we can work to create Better conditions for training,” wrote Melania Trump.
As Politeka already reported, the US President shared details of the difficult family relations with the country's first lady Melania. It was reported that the presidential couple had some kind of quarrels even after Trump’s inauguration. But, according to insiders, all the feuds could lead to divorce.
Melania Trump tries not to show it and at all events where the media appears, she behaves rather restrained and laconic. At the same time, the first lady attracts the attention of Americans with her impeccable style and graceful looks.
For the first time, the head of the White House decided to talk about problems in the family during a speech in Pennsylvania. Trump emphasized that his wife Lately It’s very hard to tolerate my husband’s antics.
She has very decent popularity ratings, but Melania Trump is not interested in this. Over the past 14 months, she has become thoroughly tired of both her status as First Lady and the constant turmoil in the White House. Moreover, according to insiders from the presidential administration, Melania is “furious” at the hopelessness of her own situation.
According to People's sources, life in the White House has become a real nightmare for Mrs. Trump: “Something happened that she didn’t want at all. They (the Trumps) have literally turned into the Kardashians: scandals, divorces, big headlines in the newspapers.”
Donald Trump's endless disputes with members of his own administration, the investigation into Russian interference in presidential elections in USA, Donald Trump Jr.'s recent divorce announcement and reports of his adultery... For Melania, accustomed to a calm and measured life before her husband became president, all this looks like chaos.
As observers recall, in her interview in September 2015 after Trump announced his candidacy for election, Melania said that most During the day she plays tennis, does Pilates and reads magazines. Mrs. Trump took great pleasure in helping her son Barron with his homework and encouraging his interests outside of school. “She could do whatever she wanted and spend most of her time with her family. Go shopping, SPA salons and have dinner with family,” the insider recalls. Melania enjoyed spending weeks relaxing at the Mar-a-Lago villa in Florida. , while Trump was working in New York.
“Nobody paid attention to her two years ago,” says the insider. “And now she lives in tornado mode 24/7.” And everyone hates it.” According to relatives, the current first lady is a pronounced introvert and a creature of habit who “just wants to mind her own business.” It was previously reported that the couple have separate bedrooms in the Trump mansion in New Jersey, because Melania wants “her own privacy.” Michael Wolff, in Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, also writes about the couple's separate bedrooms in the White House.
Melania is definitely not what you would call an active first lady. Yes, she accompanies her husband at international forums, meetings with leaders of other states, and this week she held a meeting with technical experts on the issue of online bullying. But at such moments, the insider assures, Mrs. Trump does not feel very comfortable: “She has nothing to say. She is not the most active conversationalist. With my friends, yes... But on state receptions and at dinners with political leaders, she is in no hurry to start and maintain a conversation.” The source added that the lady is also not one of those who actively defends her own point of view: “Melania prefers to adhere to the opinion of the majority.”
Exactly a year ago, on January 20, 2017, Donald Trump took office as President of the United States, and his wife Melania officially became the First Lady. At that time, there were protesters outside Melania’s windows in New York, the press considered her “unsuitable,” and designers Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford and six other lesser-known fashion gurus refused to work with her. 12 months have passed since then. We tell you what has changed since then.
As before, the press, at least that part of it that Donald Trump calls “fake news,” does not favor Melania. She is even criticized for appearance, although there seems to be nothing to complain about here. Marc Jacobs and his friends dress anyone but her, but recent Gallup Media polls have shown that among ordinary Americans there are fewer and fewer dissatisfied people. If at the beginning of the first presidential year Mrs. Trump was perceived normally by 37 percent of US citizens, now their number has grown to 54.
"They love her. They love Melania," Trump said at one of the White House banquets. And he immediately drank because his approval rating is only 41 percent.
The president rightly called his wife “the star of the Trump family.” An immigrant who received American citizenship a little over ten years ago, a Slovenian with a Slavic accent, a former model with a secondary education (but with knowledge of five foreign languages!), Melania successfully shades her reactive husband. Trump writes something on Twitter every day, threatens some with war, some with sanctions, but she is reserved, mysterious, like a sphinx, and smiles like a cat.
Melania doesn't speak in public much. According to the English-language press, she remains embarrassed by the accent, which was ridiculed during the election race Hollywood stars, but her outfits speak for themselves. IN evening dress or casual - she is good in everything. No matter what Melania's output is, wow! Fortunately, the model’s figure allows her to wear things that her predecessors in this position could not even dream of.
Even such style icons as Jacqueline Kennedy and Nancy Reagan, who were taken as models by Melania herself: tight sheath dresses, short skirts, skinny pants and stretch jeans. Melania revolutionized the wardrobe of first ladies. However, her style cannot be called frivolous. Melania had, for example, to abandon the deep necklines with which she shone in her previous, pre-presidential life. But, as fashion editors noted, the first lady likes to wear dresses directly on her naked body, and sometimes this is noticeable to voters.
Decorating the White House for Christmas is the sacred duty of first ladies. Melania did this for the first time. For the Christmas ball she chose a Christian Dior dress, a gold vintage belt and gold Manolo Blahnik shoes, November 27, 2017Without lowering the bar
As for brands, Melania remains true to herself and the traditions of the Trump family. The billionaire's wife was accustomed to luxury and, having become the first lady, did not change her habits. No populism, no democratic brands to appear closer to the people, and no masterpieces from promising American designers for the sake of their promotion in the domestic and foreign markets. Melania sends rays of luxury to the world and helps her husband make America Great Again, choosing only the best. Her work uniform is from American brands Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors, Calvin Klein, Diane von Furstenberg and European high-class Valentino, Dior, Givenchy, Stella McCartney, Bottega Veneta, Jil Sander, Fendi...
With Dolce & Gabbana, to which she is especially favorable, her most chic appearance is associated: for a visit to Sicily in May of this year, she chose a jacket embroidered with flowers for 51 thousand dollars. Even in the garden beds in front of the White House, Melania planted, watered and collected some dead peppers while wearing a plaid Balmain shirt. Her powder compact and comb are usually kept in expensive handbags, for example, in a crocodile Hermes Birkin. And, of course, Christian Louboutin and Manolo Blahnik stilettos are her best friends.
Two presidents met in Paris in July: Macron and Trump, two presidential wives and... two French dresses: Dior for Melania and Louis Vuitton for Brigitte Macron One day, on the basis of this tender friendship, an embarrassment happened to Melania. So, nothing special, but the “fake news press” still remembers it to her. In August, Melania and her husband flew to Texas to support the victims of Hurricane Harvey, the most destructive hurricane in the United States since Katrina in 2005. In the flood-stricken city of Houston, Melania walked through puddles and wet grass not in boots or even sneakers, but... in ten-centimeter Manolo Blahnik heels.
In hurricane-damaged Houston, Melania Trump wore Manolo Blahnik heels and Trump wore white pants
"This is the most inappropriate bow you could ever imagine!" - the newspapermen were indignant. Melania's husband, wearing white golf trousers, attracted no less admiration. "The First Lady has been unfairly attacked," Trump said as he changed into darker trousers for his next stop. "She tries to look good out of respect for the White House. That's why she wears such nice things and wears heels."
Sleeveless
Behind all the fashionable appearances of the first lady there is one person - the French couturier, who recently received American citizenship, Hervé Pierre. Before meeting Melania, Monsieur Pierre worked for the fashion houses Oscar de la Renta and Carolina Herrera, but is now mainly busy with Mrs. Trump's wardrobe. The maestro of tailor's scissors not only selects outfits for clients from other people's collections, but also creates his own creations. For example, elegant White dress with a red strap, in which Melania shone at the inauguration balls, Pierre created himself, and in the shortest possible time after consultation with her. “I met Melania for the first time on January 3, 2017, 17 days before the inauguration,” Pierre said in an interview with The New York Times, “she explained to me what she definitely didn’t want to wear on that day - a lush ball gown, - and I wanted something smooth, vanilla or ivory."
Pierre revealed the secrets of his work with the first lady Hervé in exclusive interview The New York Times. Or rather, both opened and closed, judging by the remark that the clearly dissatisfied editors provided with the material: “The interview was shortened and edited.” The only one terrible secret, which the designer shared with readers, is that he has to look for outfits for the first lady in completely different fashion houses, and one of the main requirements he makes is exclusivity. “I always ask myself questions: “Has this dress already been on any red carpet?”, “Has anyone worn it?” I can’t imagine the First Lady being featured in the “Battle of the Dresses” and “Who’s Wearing This” sections. better?” said the designer.
It was to Hervé Pierre that Melania Trump owes her first triumphal bow at the inauguration. It was he who found for her a sky-blue Ralph Lauren coat, long gloves and matching pumps, which aroused everyone's admiration. What is most surprising is that this year passed for her under the sign of a coat. More precisely, not the coat as such, but the way of wearing it, which Melania turned out to be very peculiar.
Fashion editors noticed that Melania Trump does not like to put her arms in her sleeves, as all people who do not want to get cold do, but prefers to gracefully throw her outerwear over her shoulders.
The Washington Post devoted an entire summary article to this feature of the first lady in December 2017 and called it “For Melania Trump, 2017 was the year of sleeves.” The author of the text argues that the manner of throwing a coat over her shoulders is Melania Trump’s whole life philosophy (love of aesthetics at the expense of practicality) and compares Melania with Michelle Obama, who had her own trick - walking with bare arms and shoulders. “In both cases, this is a story about an exceptional life,” the author writes, “just as Michelle Obama always knew that she would not have to wait for a taxi in the cold, Melania Trump knows that there will always be someone who will open the door for her, will hold an umbrella in case it rains."
In general, to paraphrase the classic: the circle of these exceptional people is narrow, and they are terribly far from the people. People, by the way, also noticed that the first lady likes to wear a coat in the manner of a fantastic hero from a film, and laughs in the comments: “Melania, put on your coat properly. You’re not Batman!”
But this was not always the case. Once upon a time, a man could marry his Slovenian sweetheart, invite Bill and Hillary Clinton to a luxurious wedding ceremony, and not bother anyone much (except perhaps society reporters). “Everything was very different back then,” Melania Trump explains, recalling the long-gone days of normalcy and sanity, her famous accent sounding especially dreamy.
Then, in 2005, no one thought it strange that Donald Trump was celebrating a happy event in the company former president and the former first lady, then a senator from the state of New York. “When they were guests at our wedding, we were ordinary citizens,” recalls Melania. Well, yes, a couple of ordinary citizens in the groom’s 126-room Florida palace. He was wearing a tuxedo; she is wearing a Dior dress worth $100 thousand, on which the fingers of attentive workers worked for 550 hours, riveting 1,500 crystals to it. This is exactly how ordinary citizens and women should look, ordinary people entering into a matrimonial union in the presence of Mayor Giuliani, while Billy Joel serenades them, and guests wash down caviar with Cristal champagne, overshadowed by a one and a half meter wedding cake.
In a sense, these were truly simple and understandable times. But times change, and change quickly - or at least that is the constant in Melania Trump's incredible life. And now, as her husband works tirelessly to “make America great again,” those same Clintons you once kissed at your wedding could easily turn out to be mortal enemies. Although this is not a problem for Melania Trump. “It just happened. Now it’s a business, nothing personal.”
Of course, she assumed that politics would bring chaos into their lives. Donald Ivana's first wife wanted him to become president; Melania, wife number three, never liked this idea. “When we discussed this, I told him: you have to be absolutely sure that you want this, because life is a changing thing.”
Donald Ivana's first wife wanted him to become president; Melania, wife number three, never liked this idea.
We communicate on the phone, but I have no idea where exactly Mrs. Trump is calling from. From your penthouse to Trump Tower? From somewhere with election campaign? The public likes her, but as the campaign progresses, Melania appears in public infrequently and only when she deigns. “No one controls me, I travel with my husband when I can and when I am sure that my son will be fine and can be safely left for a couple of days.”
Although Donald says that Melania will make an excellent first lady, the ex-model herself does not particularly talk about the topic of a possible move to the White House. She once spoke in the spirit that she would be a “traditional” wife of the president a la Jackie Kennedy, and when asked what issues she would deal with, she replied that she already supported a large number of charitable initiatives. And she clarified: “Mainly related to children and diseases.”
In this sense, she is a copy of her husband: most of her remarks sound temptingly vague. She looks you straight in the eyes and repeats positive platitudes with emphasis: that she has “strong nerves,” that she likes to “do everything in order,” that she follows the news “from A to Z”—to the point that the interviewer either starts read between the lines, or understands that nothing concrete can be extracted from it. However, unlike her husband, Melania is a reserved, polite and calm person; in any case, this is how her close circle characterizes her. “There’s a serenity about her,” says an old Slovenian friend of hers. She is a homebody, rich, but not a party girl, prefers family to high society and leaves parties early.
She looks you straight in the eye and repeats positive platitudes with emphasis - to the point that the interviewer either begins to read between the lines or realizes that nothing concrete can be extracted from her.
A homebody and a non-party girl is not at all the image that Melania’s enemies paint when they imagine her in the White House. Before the Utah primaries, Ted Cruz supporters posted photos from British GQ in 2000 showing a naked Melania reclining on a rug of hide polar bear. “Meet Melania Trump, your future first lady,” read the propaganda aimed at Mormons. “If you're against it, support Ted Cruz on Tuesday.”
Trump responded with a mysteriously threatening promise to “tell all” about Heidi Cruz and retweeted two photos: one showed Heidi, looking like a gargoyle, saying something; on the other - tanned, blue-eyed Melania, looking like a fox. “A picture is worth a thousand words,” the caption read, although the meaning of the tweet was easily deciphered by four: “My wife is much sexier.”
In New York, Melania led a quiet life, did not go to parties and always returned home early.
You might think that America has changed a lot since Hillary Rodham Clinton was criticized in the early 1990s for her desire to become first lady and her reluctance to sit at home and bake pies. However, public perception of the presidential wife has not changed much. Michelle Obama, a Princeton graduate and aspiring lawyer who served as a mentor to her future husband in their law office, spent her years in the White House working on fairly benign issues: childhood obesity, vegetable farming. Laura Bush, rather than Hillary or Michelle, was more in line with the average American (at least male) idea of what a first lady should be. Although, Jackie Kennedy still remains the ideal - a perfect example of glamor and tolerance for male debauchery.
Those who know Mrs. Trump closely say that Jackie, in the case of Melania, is by no means a bad role model. “She's great at choosing patterns for china,” says stylist Phillip Block, who has worked for both Trumps and attended fashion shows with Melania. However, unlike Jackie, who met Kennedy when he was already a congressman, Melania, who first met Donald Trump in 1998, did not intend to become the politician’s wife. She signed up for a life of glamorous showboating, which she documented on her Twitter and Instagram accounts right up until Trump announced his entry into the presidential race almost a year and a half ago. In these accounts, one could admire the view of Melania in a white robe, surrounded by a team of stylists, seated on a gilded throne overlooking Central Park. Or watch her, all in white, pose on Trump's private jet. Here she is relaxing at home - #home #NYC - on a Thursday evening, in a room that resembles a swooning baroque dream. In one of her last posts - just before someone told her to close the social media window into her opulent life - she snapped a farewell selfie in a bathroom with gold mirrors. "Bye Bye! I’m going to my summer residence.”
She signed up for a life of glamorous showboating, which she documented on her Twitter and Instagram accounts right up until Trump announced his entry into the presidential race almost a year and a half ago.
Melania has a chef and an assistant, but her son Barron does not have a nanny. Raising her son is her maternal responsibility. “We know our roles,” Melania once told Parenting.com, explaining her and her husband’s division of labor. “I don’t need him to change diapers or put Barron to bed.”
Melania is a meticulous housewife, wife and mother, and Donald likes that. It's easy for him with her. “I work hard every day from early morning until late at night,” Donald admitted in an interview with Larry King in 2005. “I don’t want to come home and work on a relationship.” For twice-divorced Donald, Melania is a real find. He never had to hear her fart or not flush the toilet, the billionaire boasted in an interview with television and radio host Howard Stern (the secret to the success of their marriage, Melania confirms, is separate bathrooms). He is always sure that she monitors contraception - an amazing woman! She has ideal proportions: height – 180 cm, weight – 56 kg and gorgeous breasts, which is important.
Stern asked Trump what he would do if Melania, God forbid, got into a terrible car accident and was disfigured left hand and her left leg, and a huge shiny red spot had formed under her eye. Would he stay with her? “What about the breasts?” - Trump clarified. “The boobs are fine,” Stern replied. Then Trump, without a doubt, would have stayed with Melania. "Because it's important." But there are other advantages. He is impressed that his wife does not engage in frantic shopping. “She never took advantage of her position, as many other women did.” (“I value quality over quantity,” Melania admits.) Donald also makes sure that their relationship remains on the level. “He is a very understanding husband,” Melania said in an interview. “If I say, ‘I need an hour to take a bath’ or ‘I’m having a massage,’ he doesn’t mind.” She gives him space and doesn't "itch forever," Melania claims.
“What about the breasts?” - Trump clarified. “The boobs are fine,” Stern replied. Then Trump, without a doubt, would have stayed with Melania. "Because it's important."
When he met Melania - at a party during New York Fashion Week in 1998 - Donald Trump was 52. He was powerful and brash, a local legend. Melania Knauss was 28, a tall, modest brunette, and her face had yet to acquire the elastic plasticine squint that always made her look like she was about to sneeze. “I didn’t really know anything about Donald Trump,” says Melania. “I had my own life.”
Years earlier, while working as a model in Milan and Paris, Melania Germanized her Slovenian surname from Knavs to Knauss. In Europe, her business was going well, but she was not a supermodel, so she set off to explore new career horizons in the States. She was assisted in this by Paolo Zampolli, a wealthy Italian with extensive but obscure business interests in New York. He transported Melania overseas, arranging for her a contract and a business visa. Sometimes, to promote his models, he sent them to social events, to which he invited photographers, producers and rich playboys. In 1998, Zampolli invited Trump, who did not come alone, but was immediately carried away by Melania. He even pointedly sent his companion to the toilet so that he could be alone for a couple of minutes with the model he liked. But Melania knew about Trump’s reputation, which he confirmed by coming to a party with one girl and starting to ask for the phone number of another.
Trump's father-in-law and mother-in-law Viktor and Amalia Knavs. It is obvious that Melania was looking for the traits of her father in men, and she found them.
She did not give her number, but asked to leave hers. The fact that a billionaire had his eye on her did not greatly impress her: she assessed the situation the way one tries a gold coin - by the tooth. “If I gave him my number, I would be just another woman he calls,” Melania recalls. She wondered if he would leave her his work phone number. “I wanted to understand his intentions. You can tell a lot about a man based on the number he gives you. He left me all his numbers.”
Perhaps Trump saw something worthy of respect in her determination to play her game. And indeed, she called him only a week later. “I’m not into celebrities,” explains the woman. “There was chemistry between us, but his status had nothing to do with it. He probably appreciated it." “It’s all about his capabilities and protection,” one of Melania’s Ljubljana acquaintances explained to me. “I think she needed a strong man, a father figure.”
The fact that a billionaire had his eye on her did not greatly impress her: she assessed the situation the way one tries a gold coin - by the tooth.
Sevnica, the town near the railway station where Melania Knavs was born in 1970, is located an hour’s drive from the Slovenian capital. In contrast to the modest lifestyle of most citizens of the SFRY, the Knavs lived in grand style. Melania's mother Amalia Ulchnik designed children's clothing at a local factory. She met Viktor Knavs in 1966, when he was still working as a driver for the mayor of neighboring Khrastnik. The family was in perfect order and spent holidays in France, Italy and Germany. From trips abroad, Amalia brought Western fashion magazines, which Melania and her friends read to their heart's content. “They had more of everything than others,” recalls Melania’s school friend Mirjana Jelancic, now the director of the school where they once studied (the school will soon open an exhibition dedicated to its most famous graduate).
Jelancic remembers how Melania’s father, Victor, lovingly polished his Mercedes, a local landmark, every Saturday. After leaving the post of driver for the mayor of Hrastnik, Victor, a member of the Slovenian Communist Party, got a job as a salesman in a state-owned automobile company and in 1976 came under police surveillance for possible financial fraud and tax evasion. He was accused of violating the tax code, but the charge was subsequently removed from his personal file in accordance with the statute of limitations. Melania did not allow me to communicate with Victor and denies the very fact of the investigation. “He has never been in trouble with the law. He has a clean past, I have nothing to hide.”
When Victor worked in Ljubljana for a state-owned company, he was given a government-owned apartment in one of the first high-rise buildings there, in which it was considered extremely prestigious to live. Well, in Sevnitsa, where almost the entire population lived in squalid factory apartments, Victor was able to build his family a house in the most decent area of the city. “Trump reminds me of Victor,” says his friend and neighbor Tomas Jeraj. “He’s a salesman, business is in his blood.”
Everyone who remembers Melania in her youth in Slovenia excitedly talks about how beautiful she was. “She has a special beauty, not a classic type,” her Ljubljana friend assures her. “She had psychedelic eyes, the eyes of an animal.” In those days, Melania did not think about a modeling career - she wanted to become a designer. Having successfully passed difficult exams for the university's architectural faculty, the girl completely focused on her studies: she did not drink, did not smoke, and did not go to parties. But by 1992, when she came second in the Slovenian Look of the Year modeling competition, she had outgrown not only Ljubljana, but her entire newly independent homeland. After the first year, Melania went to Milan. That was the end of her studies. Communication with home was gradually interrupted: when classmates invited her to a school reunion on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of graduation - they wrote on Facebook and sent an email to Mrs. Trump's representatives - they never received an answer.
Everyone who remembers Melania in her youth in Slovenia excitedly talks about how beautiful she was. “She has a special beauty, not a classic type,” her Ljubljana friend assures her. “She had psychedelic eyes, the eyes of an animal.”
She succeeded in Milan and Paris, and in 1996 she came to conquer America thanks to the patronage of Zampolli. In New York, Melania led a quiet life, fanatically taking care of her physical fitness: she walked with weights on her ankles, ate the seven fruits a day prescribed by her diet, and moisturized her skin. She rarely attended parties and did not bring anyone home. “She didn’t go to discos, at most to dinner at Cipriani at ten, and then home at one in the morning,” recalls her then neighbor. – I only went on dates with rich Europeans, mostly Italian playboys. But after dinner she was always home long before me.” And then Zampolli took her to that same party at the Kit Kat Club, where a famous playboy gave her all his phone numbers. Thus began Melania’s journey to the very top.
She repeatedly appeared next to her husband at numerous stops on his winter primary routes, but Melania's full-fledged debut in the election campaign happened on an April evening in Wisconsin. I was there and watched as my husband led Mrs. Trump to the podium. “She is an amazing mother, she loves our son Barron so much,” Donald did not hide his pride. “And I’ll tell you what: she will make an incredible first lady.” The audience burst into applause. “I would like to introduce you to my wife. Melania, come out."
“I would like to introduce you to my wife. Melania, come out."
Mrs. Trump obediently strode onto the stage in her dizzying Louboutins, a leggy doll in a seafoam-colored dress. Unseasonably tanned, absolutely at ease - the embodiment of physical perfection devoured by a thousand eyes. Then I started reading my own list. positive qualities husband. “He's a real hard worker. He has a generous heart. He is strong and smart. He is excellent at conveying his ideas to people and negotiating. Always tells the truth. A true leader. He's honest."
Melania's speech, consisting entirely of laconic statements, seemed as if written by her son for homework. "As you probably already know, if you attack him, he will hit you ten times harder." Mrs. Trump's voice was loud and firm, and the audience echoed with thunderous applause. Perhaps Melania did not want all this a year ago. She didn’t want her husband to run for president, she didn’t want close attention from the press, she didn’t want to become a politician’s wife. But she stood on that podium and with dignity tried out a new gold coin. She smiled mysteriously, like a sphinx, looking at the gathered crowds. She felt proud of her husband. He has a generous heart.
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