Yesterday, the results of the next presidential election became known in the United States. Donald Trump won, which was a big surprise for the whole world and, of course, caused a huge resonance in the press and social networks. Let's not get into the political jungle, we will discuss a topic that is more interesting for us - the new first lady of the United States - Melanie Trump.
Melania Trump was born Melania Knavs in Yugoslavia in 1970. From the age of 16 I have been modeling business, performed at shows in Milan and Paris, appeared on the pages and covers of magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Ocean Drive, In Style, New York Magazine, Avenue, Allure, Vanity Fair, Self, Glamour, Elle.
She met her future husband in 1999, the couple got married in 2004. Melania became the third wife of Donald Trump, before that he was married twice, also to models from Eastern Europe.
Today, Melania Trump is called the most beautiful first lady in the world, and for good reason. In addition to excellent external data, she has a great style, as you can see by looking at her photos from official events.
Melania prefers a classic elegant style that can be compared to the style of Jackie Kennedy and Princess Diana. Melania chooses sheath or A-line dresses in pure colors: black, red, white, beige, as well as trouser suits. From shoes - classic high-heeled pumps, mostly beige or white. Her evening looks are also interesting: they trace the influence of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Her style is a great example to follow.
She is called the most courageous first lady of the United States. Her style is in turn compared to Jacqueline Kennedy, then to Princess Diana herself. Someone makes fun of her because of her excessive seriousness and inability to smile, while someone, on the contrary, admires her endurance in the difficult role of the wife of the country's first person.
Biography of Melania Trump
A simple girl from Eastern Europe, who became the full mistress of the White House. This story is about Melania Trump, the only non-American woman in the last hundred years who has become the first lady of the country, who is admired by the entire fashion world.
Melania Knavs was born on April 26, 1970 in the provincial town of Novo Mesto in Yugoslavia. She spent all her childhood and adolescence in the city of Sevnitsa with a population of no more than five thousand inhabitants.
It is now in Sevnitsa that they show the house of Melania's parents to visiting tourists, and in the 70s the life of the Knavs family did not promise them anything unusual. His father sold used cars and his mother worked in a textile factory. The family huddled in the most ordinary high-rise building.
Now the parents of the first lady of the United States have moved to New York, but the neighbors still remember them and Melania with great warmth.
School teachers echo the neighbors, remembering what a diligent student Melania was. Always polite, courteous and restrained. It was as if from childhood she felt what role she was destined for. By the way, being a girl, Melania was even shy about her appearance. Until the age of sixteen, she was rather thin and lanky, but later she really blossomed, which was even visible to the naked eye.
After school, young Melania entered the Ljubljana Institute at the Department of Design and Architecture.
In her first year, she met the photographer Stane Yerko. Without cunning, we can say that this meeting was fateful! Yerko was amazed by the girl's external data and simply begged to be photographed for him as a model. Without thinking twice, Melania agreed to this adventure and did not lose.
After the first photo test, it was clear that the girl just needed to think about the career of a model, she looked so organically in the frame. It was this advice that Yerko, fascinated by her beauty, gave to Melania.
Being a girl far from stupid, Melania listened to the advice of a friend. After graduating from the first year of the institute, she changed her last name to "Knaus", which sounded more European, and waved to Milan to conquer the fashionable Olympus.
By the way, America is still hotly arguing about the education of the first lady. Rumor has it that when Melania realized that her beauty can earn much more than architecture, she never returned to her studies.
In Milan, the newly-made Knaus did not sit without work for a long time and plunged headlong into all the charms of the modeling life. Endless castings, photo shoots for gloss and defile for fashion shows changed at cosmic speed.
To consolidate her success, Melania did not disdain to go under the surgeon's knife. And again, she didn't fail.
After a successful rhinoplasty and breast augmentation, her “target audience” only expanded. The girl began to be called to shoot in men's magazines.
Filming in GQ and MAXIM magazine dotted all i in the career of a model, and her name became known not only in Europe, but also beyond its borders. In the mid-90s, Melania decided that since she had conquered Europe, now it was time to try her luck overseas. In 1996 she moved to New York.
In the US, Melania continued to build a modeling career and also successfully.
At one of the parties in New York's KitKat club in 1998, she met Donald Trump - very rich and very married.
In one of the interviews, the billionaire admitted that on that day his friends wanted to set him up with one model. In those years, Trump was the owner of the Miss Universe beauty pageant. And the girls were ready for a lot to get to know him personally with all the consequences. Approaching the table where the model was sitting, with whom Trump was supposed to be introduced, he was speechless, staring at her companion. It was just Melania. That evening, Donald did not leave her again.
To the question “is it possible to get your phone number”, Melania refused, demanding that he give her his. She perfectly understood who Donald Trump was and that he was married. And she didn’t want to become his next “girl on the first call” at all.
History is silent about whether Melania called Donald back, but the fact remains. From 1998 to this day, they no longer parted.
Their relationship received a lot of publicity in the media after Trump called Melania "the love of his life" in 1999. live on the radio. Before that, he was married twice already :-)
After the relationship was declassified and Trump divorced his wife, Melania became the billionaire's official girlfriend. In 1999, they even starred in a provocative photo shoot for New York Magazine, where they said with all their looks: “Yes, we have a big age difference, but now we are together and we don’t care what you think!”
Since the name Melania began to be associated with Donald Trump, her career has noticeably gone up. Harper's Bazaar, Ocean Drive, In StyleWeddings, New York Magazine, Avenue, Allure, Vogue - all these publications wanted to see only Melania Knaus on their covers.
Just then, in the early 2000s, she starred in that very famous erotic photo shoot completely naked. It was she, after almost 20 years, that Trump's opponents tried to use against him during the election campaign.
But this was not the first and not the last provocative shooting of the future first lady. In the 2000s, her popularity grew, there was no shortage of offers from magazines. One such proposal was an advertising campaign in GQ magazine.
A photo of Melania appeared on the cover, but it was not limited to this. The entire photo shoot was included in the release.
By the way, the photographers who worked with Melania in those years noted that despite the fact that in fact she was not a TOP model and she had quite a few competitors, she always gave her best on the set and behaved very professionally and was generally quite a nice person.
Fashion critics believe that in the 2000s, Melania committed, perhaps, all the fashionable crimes.
But who did not make them in zero?! I think that a woman who is rightfully called an icon of style today can be forgiven a lot!
From too deep necklines ...
...before experimenting with hair color.
The main thing is that Melania quickly returned to the correct color!
After a six-year candy-and-bouquet period, Donald Trump has finally proposed marriage to his sweetheart. Rumor has it that Melania, tired of waiting, even suggested that Trump leave, but he realized that he was not ready to lose this woman and quickly put a 12-carat diamond engagement ring on her finger for almost $ 2 million.
After such a sincere impulse, Melania could not resist!
The Trump wedding surprised everyone - both the media and the guests. The celebration cost the billionaire $ 45 million, which put their wedding in the ranking of the most expensive in history, along with the wedding ceremony of Princess Diana, and later Prince William and Kate.
Melania's dress from Dior was decorated with a four-meter veil and a five-meter train. It was real couture. It was hand-embroidered with 1,500 pearls and cost about $200,000.
The wedding was widely covered in the press and on television, and VOGUE even featured the happy bride Melania on their February cover. Melania at that time was 34 years old.
A year later, Melania gave birth to their first child - the son of Barron. For Donald, this was the fifth child.
With modeling career I had to quit and Mrs. Trump devoted herself entirely to family and social activities.
In 2006, Melania Trump finally received her long-awaited US citizenship.
2008 2009
Donald Trump's announcement that he was going to run for the presidency of the United States made a splash.
During the election race, he had to face many troubles. Competitors were looking for compromising evidence absolutely everywhere they could find something. Melanie got it too.
In the summer of 2016, an American blogger and the British newspaper Daily Mail wrote that in the late 90s, the future first lady worked as an escort. In August of that year, Melania Trump filed a lawsuit for defamation. Apologies followed immediately. Both the blogger and the Daily Mail management brought her a public apology, where they refused their words.
But the persecution of Trump through his wife did not end. In the same summer of 2016, the New York Post published an issue with a naked Melania and the slogan "You have never seen such Melania."
Later it turned out that these photos were taken even before meeting Trump in the mid-90s.
Donald reacted like a real politician, saying: “Yes, such photos were very popular in Europe in those years, there is nothing wrong with that. In the end, it’s even beautiful.”
No more compromising material was found on the wife of the future president. But the bullying didn't stop. The Slavic accent, which even such stars as Gigi Hadid did not hesitate to parody from the stage, the dubious modeling past - all this only provoked the audience, which was sharply opposed to Trump.
But we must pay tribute to Melania, who supported her husband in every possible way throughout the election race and proudly walked past the baseless accusations that poured on their family like from a cornucopia. Even their son, whom the tabloids called autistic, got it. But Melania did not stand on ceremony, but filed again legal action for libel and won.
Later, at one of the press conferences, Mrs. Trump even stated that the first thing she would do as the first lady was the situation associated with bullying on the Internet. Especially among teenagers.
When the election results were announced, she accompanied her husband in an impeccable white dress. The fabric was not very dense, which once again emphasized that the President's wife was in brilliant shape!
Meanwhile, in Sevnica, in the homeland of Melania, Trump's victory in the elections was celebrated by the whole town. Overnight, Melania Knaus became the property of now Slovenia.
A cake has already been named in honor of her, and the day is near when one of the streets will be named after her. At the school where she studied, her photo is already hanging in the most prominent place. Still would: simple girl practically from the village - now the wife of the president of one of the most powerful countries!
The image of Melania at the inauguration of the president literally put everyone on the shoulder blades. In a matter of minutes, the photo of the first lady spread all over social media. The elegant blue suit captivated both fashion critics and mere mortals.
The image of Melania was clearly inspired by the image - the wife of the youngest president of the United States. Trump, by the way, is the oldest.
And the color, and style, and gloves, and even the hair laid on the back of the head, resembled the famous pill at the inauguration of 56 years ago.
Having chosen for herself the image dear to MILLIONS of Americans, Melania hit the target!
Legend and style icon Jacqueline Kennedy had to make room on the throne.
During a family change at the White House, Melania gave Michelle Obama a box of treasured turquoise color. Netizens wondered for a year what was in the box. There were even suggestions that there are Jewelry home of the Trumps and congratulated the first lady on an excellent publicity stunt. A year later, Michelle herself revealed the "secret" in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres. She admitted that there really was Tiffany in the box. It was a "very beautiful...photo frame" :-)
At a party in honor of the president, Melania again captivated the audience with her outfit. Shortly before that, she hired stylist Evre Pierre (before that, he worked with Balmain, Oscar de la Renta and other famous fashion houses). Together they came up with a dress in a delicate cream shade, with bare shoulders and an asymmetrical pleat. European gloss, packed in an American shell.
Fashion critics applauded, Trump's opponents bashfully fell silent. No one could take their eyes off the first lady.
And the first lady made another right move by hiring a French stylist with American citizenship. The president's wife should consume only domestic products :-)
By the way, in November 2016, all the newspapers trumpeted that the designer Sophie Thealle, who once dressed Michelle Obama, refused to provide similar services to Melania Trump and urged her colleagues to do the same.
Melania didn’t even show it, but in her heart, I think, she laughed. Being a client of Sophie Thealle is a pleasure. Do you still remember Michelle's outfits? I'll remind you :-)
Pierre Evreux dresses the first lady of the United States to this day. And, it should be noted, he does an excellent job with his work. Melania looks PERFECT!
After the presidential ball, Melania was in no hurry to move to the White House, but returned to her apartment - Trump Tower on 5th Avenue. For the sake of the son. She herself drives and brings him from school, she prepares lunch for him, and she herself helps with the lessons.
She is in no hurry to the White House, putting New Yorkers in a disadvantageous position. Traffic on the street is constantly blocked, and White House spends $1 million a day to keep the president's family safe.
After the election, Melania took up recruiting for her team. As an adviser and personal assistant, she chose her old friend Stephanie Winston - a former employee of Vogue magazine. Who else could the style icon employ? Only people from Vogue, no less!
Melania understands perfectly well - they are greeted by clothes, escorted by mind. And she does it very well. If everything is obvious with the “clothes” (Melania is beautiful), then no matter how evil tongues argue about the unfinished higher education first lady, she has never given a reason to doubt her intellectual abilities.
Patriotic Melania prefers American designers to everyone else: she wears it with pleasure at official events Michael Kors Collection, The Row and Calvin Klein. And although Karl Lagerfeld himself sews custom-made dresses for her, she remains faithful to the domestic product most of the time.
The best images and outfits of Melania Trump
Let's look at best images first lady!
By the way, she is also wearing jeans!
Trying on the wardrobe of the first lady
Tell me honestly, would you like to become the president's wife? Personally, I don't. In general, publicity terribly annoys me, I'm homely and shy.
But trying on the wardrobe of the first lady was interesting! It’s a pity that my legs didn’t grow from my ears at the same time :))))
I have two style icons among status wives - Melania Trump and Meghan Markle. These girls burn, leaving a dull style far behind, deftly maneuvering between modern clothes and draconian protocol dress code :-)
We talk about how the images of Melania Trump changed and why society was divided in opinion about the president's wife: for some, she became the embodiment of taste and beauty, and for others, a symbol of her husband's sexist views and outdated social norms.
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In the 90s and early 2000s, the now 46-year-old first lady of the United States Melania Trump, and then the model and daughter of an Eastern European communist, Melania Knauss, was known as an excellent sex bomb, lit up naked in magazines, including men's. She starred for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, GQ and other publications, and outside the frame she showed a typical - for the era, and not for herself - glamorous and sexy style: mini, sequins, stiletto sandals decorated with rhinestones, a lot of silicone, a lot of nudity, natural furs and sable fur coats to the floor, thrown over Evening Dress(with sandals, of course), sunburn, Chanel handbags, status trinkets and other manifestations of luxury and beautiful life, typical, we repeat, on the one hand - for the era, on the other - for environment Melania and a lover of Trump models, and thirdly, the taste of their future electorate. Rich, status, expensive, sexy, faceless and absolutely unrecognizable - this is how you can describe the then style of Melania is not yet Trump.
In 2005, Melania married Trump, becoming his third wife, and their wedding became one of the most expensive and luxurious celebrations of the decade and was officially included in the ranking of the ten largest weddings in the world. Melania Trump's wedding dress was created by John Galliano himself, who then worked for Dior - they say it cost more than 200 thousand dollars, although Melania herself claims that "only" 100 thousand. More than 100 meters of white satin, 1,500 rhinestones and natural pearls and 550 hours were used for the dress. manual labor. The length of the train of the veil was five meters! Not surprisingly, after the ceremony, Melania put on a different outfit - more comfortable and discreet. Wedding Dress Vera Wang knee length. After marriage, her style remained the same frank and glamorous, but there were more furs and expensive evening dresses - as well as reasons to walk outfits on the red carpet with her millionaire husband.
Melania Trump's wedding dress was designed by John Galliano for Dior - they say it cost more than $200,000
But as soon as the outlines of the White House loomed on the horizon last year, Melania was taken by the Trump team under the strict supervision of a presidential adviser. However, the “tough supervision” turned out to be not so irreconcilable, since Melanie Kellyanne, who herself loves bright and ambiguous outfits, has not changed in principle the style and manner of dressing. Of course, Mrs. Trump's style has become more restrained and elegant, the details have become more thoughtful and strict, but the essence has remained the same. The tan is a little lighter, the nails a little shorter, but the slits and heels are still a little too high; the neckline was covered, but under a thin blouse we still see the outlines of a plastic breast and - oh my God - shamelessly protruding nipples at five minutes to the first lady.
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MELANIA TRUMP
However, most of Melania's appearances during the Trump campaign can in all honesty be called excellent, perfect, beautiful - but certainly not stylish. Seriousness, a calmer femininity, nobility and even breed (no, did you see her ankles?), appeared, but not style. Why? Yes, because, looking at Melania,We can't say anything about her as a person. Is she smart? Must not be stupid- knows five languages, but is she smart? Does she have an opinion? What does she think about this or that? What kind social problems she is worried - and is she worried at all? But much instantly becomes clear about her social class, environment and surroundings: habits, tastes, ideas about luxury, status and status and, of course, success.
After numerous spectacular, successful and not very exits of the future first lady during Trump's election campaign in 2016 (recall that after the publication of Trump's scandalous record, where he is going to« take by the crotch”, i.e. for that very pussy, Melania appeared in public in a bright pink Gucci blouse under the frivolous name pussy bow - “kitten tail”), surprised us a little. Firstly, the image, as the Western media successfully noted, was copied cleanly from a similar exit by Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961 (and other outfits of the recognized ) and, secondly, this is exactly what they expected from Melania - a typical "public" outfit of a typical beautiful wife"white Anglo-Saxon" millionaire from the Upper East Side.
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MELANIA TRUMP IN A GUCCI PUSSY BOW BLOUSE
Talking about the style and image of Melanya Trump, it is impossible not to compare her with, who, perhaps not possessing by nature the ability to effectively present her appearance, and never claiming any special external data, nevertheless managed to do so to be respected all over the world for her and her style.
While the suit of her husband, Donald Trump, has remained unchanged for many years - a black two-piece with a white shirt and a red tie - the color of the Republican Party (Trump himself says about himself: “My beauty lies in the fact that I have a lot of money"), Melania Trump's style paradoxically rhymes with the ideas and mentality of post-Soviet women, which explains Melania's popularity in space former USSR- and this at a time when in the United States her rating, like Trump's rating, is the lowest in history at the time of the inauguration, that is, even before the president makes any decisions. Our people are used to the fact that a woman should be - what? That's right, beautiful. And beautiful - so what? That's right - elegant and ostentatiously sexy, a commodity in person, so to speak: because there are fewer men than women (and there are very few suitable for marriage), because a patriarchal society in which the more noticeable a woman is outwardly, the more likely she is to get a good job, because, in the end, our grandmothers and even mothers (even those who are a little over forty) lived like that, and THEIR mothers, and in the 80s, made careers, armed with songs and the example of Margaret Thatcher in a blouse with a bow on neck - analogue men's tie for working women. Of course, all these are rather exaggerated stereotypes, but they, nevertheless, at least in general terms explain the situation, showing why in the eyes of post-Soviet women, and many men too, Melania looks perfect, literally - worthy of imitation, a symbol of female success. Many argue like this: beautiful, slender, young looking, her husband is a millionaire, knows five languages, has reached the top - what else do you need? But this sounds about the same as describing the virtues of a living commodity at a brides' fair. It was precisely according to such criteria that wealthy suitors chose their wives, in years or not: so that they would not disgrace themselves in society, so that they would illuminate the living room with a radiant smile of porcelain teeth, so that they could entertain with a casual conversation in moments of rest, embroider, play the piano - and not shine . After all, in the end, all these talents were needed in order to the man was satisfied with the purchase, and gave bonuses not for the free choice of a woman in her life, but for the most good luck selling yourself in the marriage market.
Melania Trump is the first lady of the United States, wife of the president. In the past, Melania was famous model, but she has not lost her position even now. Spectacular by nature, Melania now chooses an elegant style, and adheres to it skillfully.
However, her elegance does not in any way resemble the style of the "Queen Mother", let alone the mood, created by images and far from the image of Jacqueline Kennedy, which is attributed to her. Both sides are strong in her style: both elegance and sexuality! And these two aspects effectively play in her favor.
Evolution of Style
We all learned little by little something and somehow - as the classic said. And Melania didn't always look the way she does now. Of course, her style has evolved. And, I can say that for the better.
The relative constancy in her image is her hairstyle. And this, in my opinion, is very cool. Precisely because Melania wears natural color hair, she now in adulthood looks much younger than many of her peers. And this once again confirms the fact that the natural hair color given by nature plays in favor of a woman!
What do you think of her style evolution? ? Like?
At first it was like this! Lots of glitter, fringe, enough short dresses. However, I do not want to seem hypocrite, she was beautiful at her age.
For a certain period of time, Melania wore pink tops, which later changed to fur jackets, as well as jackets made of velvet, velveteen and other textured fabrics. Basically, these were trouser looks, or denim-based looks.
Following the fur jackets, fur coats and slip dresses appeared. While I was studying the evolution of style, I thought very hard, who made all these outfits? Is this a stylist's recommendation? It is clear that the format was still a model, and not the first lady, however, many images and concepts raise many questions.
And this is what the current first lady came to in her style. I like . Calm, stylish, and confident!
Long Dress (Maxi)
Consider some variations of the images that Mrs. Trump wears at events. Long Dresses she wears both as part of a black tie dress code and for daytime outings. In fact, I really like the way she plays with style, skillfully and boldly using color, print and texture!
Dress
The sheath dress often gets a spot at formal daytime receptions. Basically, it is monophonic, like the evening official one. In general, I want to say that plain versions look much more interesting and effective than printed dresses, creating the integrity of the image and perception.
overalls
Perhaps no first lady has yet had so much courage to go out in overalls. Melania did. And, which is especially nice, this piece of clothing looks stylish on her too.
And the more I look at her looks, the more I like her choice of current stylist.
Coat Midi Length
The selection of midi coats is also captivating! Particularly pleasant is the fact that the coat is chosen effectively and tastefully, regardless of the occasion and exit. These are official events, and walking versions, and going to a party or cocktail. Each image deserves special attention, and gradually we are convinced of the impeccable taste of Melania, and, of course, the team of image makers who create all this splendor!
Pantsuit
Here's another bold decision for the first lady - a pantsuit! Melania wears it everywhere: both for official events and for evening outings, and for less formal occasions, by pairing it with a T-shirt. In one of the examples, we also see the skillful use of the trend - trousers with stripes.
Total White Style Preference
One of the most interesting and noticeable images of Melania is total white! It often appears in various shades of white. This, as you have already noticed from previous examples, And suits, and dresses, and coats. I suggest you look at a few more images made in such a simple and such a complex color.
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Outfit for Melania Trump
The image of the first lady of America is still actively discussed on the net and the main question that we will try to answer today is how to sew a similar dress and jacket using ready-made Burda patterns.
Costume details
The laconic cut of the ensemble speaks for itself.
A mid-knee length sheath dress emphasizes all the advantages of Melania's impeccable figure. A small one-piece stand-up collar with vertical darts is the highlight of this model. A classic vent is provided at the back of the dress so that the narrow silhouette does not restrict movement.
A small jacket, slightly reminiscent of a bolero, with an unusual cut deserves special attention. Two-seam raglan sleeves with a straight cut and three-quarter length, oblique wrap-around shelves and a shawl collar that fastens with a button.
I would like to point out one very important point. From the photographs, it can be assumed that both the dress and the jacket are made of a two-layer double fabric. That is why the seams look different from the front side, in addition, there is no decorative stitching.
Pattern:
Lace can make any thing luxurious! And our narrow closed dress with a one-piece collar ...
No cardinal changes will have to be made to the model, since the silhouette practically coincides with the original.
The absence of vertical darts on the neck in the proposed model can be compensated for with a little trick - do it from the wrong side. Carefully stitch narrow folds to the desired length, which will imitate vertical tucks.
Transfer the zipper from the shoulder seam to the seam on the back.
Add a slit or slot.
The jacket assumes a "collective" image of two patterns. Combine a jacket model from and a bolero from.
Pattern:
Embossed fabric pattern, wide shawl collar, fastening with large lace buttons and hinged…
If the shawl collar of the jacket is fastened only with the top button, then, as can be seen in the photo, no additional changes will be required in it.
Instead of a button as a fastener, use a button or beautiful hooks for clothes.
Opt for soft dress and jacket fabrics that hold their shape well. It can be cashmere, as in the original, wool or blended fabrics good quality jacquard fabrics are also suitable.A photo:Wikipedia(1); Russian Look (3); www.pinterest.com (2); website
Author of the master class: Yulia Dekanova