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Melania Trump Says American Fashion “Can Lead”—While She’s Dressed in European Labels
On Friday, the FLOTUS spoke at the Smithsonian about the power of American style. Her Bottega Veneta coat and Louboutins sent a different message.

By José Criales-Unzueta
February 20, 2026

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/melania-trump-smithsonian-inaugural-gown

Onstage, Trump spoke of the gown and its designer—her longtime stylist, the French-American fashion designer Hervé Pierre—and of her commitment to fashion and her passion for it altogether. One of her most enduring signatures as a first lady will after all be her meticulously architected look and her personal fascination with it: Towering stilettos, severely cut skirt suits, and her penchant for black, in addition to her love for European fashion houses.

Trump, according to Lonnie G. Bunch III, the current secretary of the Smithsonian who spoke prior to her remarks, is the first first lady to be exhibited and represented in the collection with two inaugural gowns in more than 100 years. “That’s really important,” said Bunch.

“Human nature resides in the discipline of detail. Everything is in the detail,” Trump said in her speech. “It’s a testament as to why America’s fashion industry can lead the rest of the world,” she continued. Notably, she “championed” the United States’s “fashion leadership,” to borrow the verbiage from the release of remarks, while wearing not one but two European labels, as confirmed by the office of the first lady. It’s a detail that seems worth paying attention to.

It sends a message: that either Trump does not seem to think it relevant that she was wearing a Bottega Veneta coat (Italian, retailing online for $4,300) with Christian Louboutin (French) snakeskin boots while speaking of how the American industry is leading the pack, or perhaps she simply hadn’t thought of it. Though considering how carefully articulated her style is, we can presume that the first lady knows exactly what she’s wearing and to where.