Ivanka Trump Wears Givenchy Haute Couture Gown for Inauguration Night Balls 2025
Ivanka Trump chose a black and white Givenchy haute couture gown on Monday for the Inaugural Night Balls.
Trump’s Inaugural Night Givenchy haute couture gown was inspired by a 1953 style from the house’s archives. It is a bustier gown with an overskirt in off-white silk taffetas that is overlaid with tone-on-tone organdy and trimmed with a black silk satin organza ruffle. The dress is also embellished with black handprint and thread work in floral motifs.
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It was known whether Trump traveled to Paris for fittings. She is said to be working with an in-the-know stylist whose full-time job is on the editorial side of Town & Country. That individual did not acknowledge media inquiries.
Having modeled in her pre-Wharton Business School days and run her own fashion business for a stretch, Trump understands the inner workings, as well as the challenges and chargebacks and everything else that goes with the industry. Trump’s late mother Ivana worked as a model as a young woman. And her sister-in-law Karlie Kloss is a global runway pro, entrepreneur and investor.
Trump is drawing attention to the French house, just months after Sarah Burton was named the artistic director of all men’s and women’s collections. However, Burton did not design Trump’s inaugural night dress. The design force is busy planning for her first Givenchy show that will be held in March, during Paris Fashion Week. (Many know Burton for being one of Kate Middleton’s favorite designers, and for having created her wedding dress, during her former role at Alexander McQueen.)
As many in the fashion community understand, dressing political figures can be fraught, regardless of a designer’s personal’s beliefs and practices. Unlike during Donald Trump’s first administration, when his daughter Ivanka served as a special advisor, she has made it clear that that will not be the case in his second term.
As for whether Givenchy was wary of what the response to the house’s dressing Trump might be, that does not to be an issue based on its track record for celebrating creativity, elegance and craftsmanship, and values that transcend cultural, social and political boundaries.
To that point, Givenchy has dressed several political notables over the years, including Jill Biden in 2019, the now former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2022, Michelle Obama in 2018, and Queen Rania of Jordan in 2016.
The choice of Givenchy was a changing of the guard for Trump, so to speak, as in switching camps from an American designer to a French one. On Sunday the first daughter counted on Oscar de la Renta‘s design duo of Laura Kim and Fernardo Garcia for two inauguration-related outfits. The 43-year-old mother of three made quite an entrance at Arlington National Cemetery for a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, by wearing an orchid appliqué cashmere coat in camel, and a jewel-button detailed dress beneath it. Trump later turned up at the Candlelight Dinner at the National Building Museum in an off-the-shoulder glittery cocktail gown from the American house.
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