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Fashion Police: Inauguration Edition
Usha Vance, J.D. Vance, Donald Trump, and Melania Trump participate in the departure ceremony for Joe and Jill Biden in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 2025. (Chris Kleponis via Getty Images)
Not since Lincoln’s stovepipe has a hat been so well-worn in our nation’s capital. Suzy Weiss on Melania’s hat, Kamala’s leisure suit that screamed ‘Chico’s!’ and more.
By Suzy Weiss
01.20.25 — Culture and Ideas
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Glam was back yesterday in D.C., for most everyone other than Kamala Harris, who wore a casual leisure suit that screamed both “Chico’s” and “Give me the other half of the Xanax, Doug.”

We don’t blame her. The weather alone—in a word: arctic—was enough to make anyone want to curl up in a fetal position. It was so cold that the swearing-in ceremony was moved inside to the Capitol Rotunda.

Most of the ladies—Ivanka Trump; Melania Trump; Usha Vance—stuck to their long-planned outdoor looks. But not Lauren Sánchez, who gave D.C. its biggest dose of sex since the Lewinsky scandal, with her white lace corset peeking from the top of her sparkling-white blazer—the whole look was by Alexander McQueen. Verdict: wildly inappropriate, totally awesome. Mark Zuckerberg was pleased.

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Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss is a reporter and producer for The Free Press. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.
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