Fashion Designer Disses Melania’s ‘Pilgrim’ Chic Wardrobe

Prolific fashion designer and former Project Runway All Stars judge Isaac Mizrahi shared a damning verdict on Melania Trump’s fashion sense during a recent appearance on The Daily Beast Podcast. After co-host Joanna Coles—a fellow Project Runway alum—argued that “whatever you say about (Melania), she always looks fabulous,” Mizrahi didn’t hold back: “I don’t think she looks that fabulous,” he replied.

For Mizrahi, the issue isn’t so much about what Melania wears, but how her clothes seem to be wearing her. “She looks like she hasn’t sat down between the time they dressed her and the time she takes the picture,” he noted, diagnosing Melania as “styled” but not “stylish.”

At former president Jimmy Carter’s funeral in Washington D.C. earlier today, Melania donned a black Valentino trenchcoat featuring an oversize white collar, its clean lines resembling a large paper airplane. (The collar also featured an illustration of a. couple kissing, as well as flowers and butterflies.) The unmissable look sparked many questions—and “pilgrim adams family outfit” jokes—on social media, driving Mizrahi’s point home.

“She does not inhabit her clothes,” Mizrahi continued of Melania. “I feel like she doesn’t really move in the clothes. She gets off a plane, and she goes into a car... but she does not live a life, she does not let us into [it]. And good. Honestly, I have no further interest in her.”

Mizrahi contrasted Melania’s “overly curated” image with Michelle Obama’s effortless sense of style. “Michelle Obama just woke up. She was ready, honey. She never had to get ready,” he said. By contrast, Melania seems “terrified by her position,” and reliant on a team “putting her together just to stand there for five seconds.”

And when Coles asked Mizrahi how he would dress Melania for her husband Donald Trump’s forthcoming inauguration, he again pulled no punches: “I would tell her to stay home,” he said. “We know she doesn’t like doing this. So it’s so uncomfortable to see her in anything.”

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