Md.Golam Mostafa, Digital Marketing at Tach Fmz (2019-present)
On Wednesday, Melania Trump gave a speech before a luncheon gathering of United Nations spouses, addressing cyberbullying and child advocacy. As usual, her look, affect, and performance conveyed infinitely more than her brief scripted speech ever could. Melania, in fact, is beginning to seem like an increasingly powerful — albeit unacknowledged — expression of all the madness swirling around the current administration.
At the U.N., Melania took the podium in an eye-straining vivid-fuchsia Delpozo dress, distinguished by gigantic puffy sleeves and belted snugly — like many of her outfits — just beneath the bosom. The outsize, three-quarter sleeves functioned almost like sails or balloons, creating fabric hollows that inflated with air and billowed widely out around her. Her long, middle-parted hair was styled in its customary unmoving waves, curving around her sculpted face like a stage curtain stalled at mid-rise. The matching stilettos were at least four inches high. Taken together, this was a high-glam, show-stopping, BIG look, both literally and figuratively. The critics pounced. “Outfit is not flattering. Sad, “Melania wearing a pink Snuggie,” And some deemed it a poor taste for the First Lady to wear a $3,000 dress while declaring, “No child should ever feel hungry.”
The First Lady’s appearance did feel “off” somehow, but these were not the reasons. The dress was chic and interesting (if oddly voluminous), and the spouses of world leaders are always going to wear fine expensive clothes. That’s just normal. The unease we felt watching Melania this week stems from something deeper: the many striking incongruities that underlie many of the First Lady’s public performances.
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On Wednesday, we saw some of those incongruities on display as Melania took her place and began to speak. At first blush, she seemed larger than life — a voluptuous ship of state propelled by shocking-pink sails. But look again and listen: the First Lady seemed uncertain, her face contorted as if on the verge of tears for a few minutes. As she invoked the importance of “human dignity” and “leaving no one behind,” Melania’s soft voice quivered, her eyebrows rising into an upside-down v of distress.
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