Even when Ivanka Trump has insisted that she doesn’t plan to maneuver again to Washington, D.C., and take a distinguished position in her father’s White Home, she seized on her father’s second inauguration to as soon as once more solid herself in a quasi-princess position in American society.
Donald Trump’s oldest daughter did so by stealing an iconic look from Hollywood royalty for her look at her father’s inaugural Liberty Ball Monday evening. She wore a re-creation of the high fashion black-and-white robe that Hubert de Givenchy’ designed for Hepburn to put on within the 1954 movie “Sabrina.”
A White Home consultant instructed the Every day Mail that Ivanka Trump was “honored” to put on the robe and “incredibly grateful” that the Arnault household, which owns Givenchy atelier as a part of the LVMH conglomerate, created “this masterpiece” of a robe for her. Ivanka Trump praised the designers for “capturing the original artistry and elegance with remarkable precision and craftsmanship.”
Sons of US President Donald Trump Eric Trump (2nd R) and son Donald Trump Jr. (L), his daughter Ivanka Trump (R) and granddaughter Kai Madison Trump attend the Liberty inaugural ball in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Picture by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Picture by JIM WATSON/AFP through Getty Photographs)
And, it’s most likely no shock to be taught that “Audrey Hepburn has long been a personal inspiration to Ivanka,” because the consultant stated.
On this method, Ivanka Trump isn’t terribly authentic. Hepburn, revered for her European-bred magnificence and slender determine (presumably the results of struggling hunger throughout World Battle II), has lengthy been a mode icon for girls of a sure age.
Maybe additionally important for Ivanka Trump, the actress, who died in 1993, gained her Academy Award for taking part in a princess in “Roman Holiday” and he or she donned the Givenchy robe to play a Cinderella-type character within the romantic comedy “Sabrina.” (It’s most likely not shocking that Ivanka Trump didn’t borrow from an much more iconic Hepburn film search for her father’s inaugural ball: The black satin sheath night robe that Givenchy designed for her name lady character Holly Golightly to put on in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”)
Throughout her father’s first administration, Ivanka Trump turned recognized for making an attempt to play “princess,” as she turned a senior White Home adviser for her father, in response to a number of biographers.
Sabrina Fairchild’s (Audrey Hepburn) embroidered silk-organza robe from “Sabrina” (1954) is displayed throughout a press preview of film memorabilia public sale at Propstore in Valencia, California on February 7, 2024. (Picture by VALERIE MACON/AFP through Getty Photographs)
For Trump’s first inauguration in 2017, Ivanka was conscious of the pomp and pageantry of the occasion and purchased into the concept that the Trumps might be the brand new Kennedys and even an American model a royal household, in response to the ebook, “Born Trump: Inside America’s First Family” by journalist Emily Jane Fox.
Ivanka Trump, eager on stagecraft, additionally labored with a stylist on devising her inauguration day outfits. She instructed associates she wished a “princess moment,” Fox wrote.
“I told her it’s an inauguration, not a coronation,” one good friend instructed Fox. However as Ivanka Trump reportedly insisted, “the sentiment was that Americans wanted a royal family.”
One other creator, Mary Jordan, wrote in her 2020 ebook, “The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump,” that Melania Trump had a strained relationship along with her husband’s beloved daughter. When she was youthful, Melania would name Ivanka “The Princess” behind her again.
Jordan additionally wrote that Melania Trump was delay by the way in which Ivanka Trump sought the limelight through the 2017 inauguration and remodeled herself into the de facto first woman within the first months of Trump’s administration, when Melania selected to remain in New York along with her son, Barron. New York Instances reporter Katie Rogers additionally wrote in her 2024 ebook, “American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden,” that Melania Trump resented her stepdaughter’s interventions within the first woman’s workplace and dubbed her “The Princess.”
If any tensions stay between Melania Trump her stepdaughter, they haven’t been on show since Trump gained the Nov. 5 election and ready to return to the White Home for a second time. Melania Trump has expressed a want to return to the White Home and seize management of her place as first woman.
Ivanka Trump, in the meantime, has stated since 2022 that she and her husband, Jared Kushner, don’t “plan to be involved in politics” and would as a substitute prioritize elevating their three youngsters in Florida. In a current look on The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast, Ivanka Trump stated, “I think I’m most looking forward to just being able to show up for him as a daughter and be there for him, to take his mind off things, to watch a movie with him, or watch a sports game, to know that he can be with me and be himself and just relax and for me to be able to provide that for him and in a very loving way as his daughter.”
Initially Printed: January 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM PST
