At Donald Trump’s inauguration, Melania Trump attracted attention with her wide-brimmed hat, although the item almost missed the event.
When the chapeau was delivered from his Miami studio to New York, American designer Eric Javits, who created it.
To match Melania’s navy silk wool Adam Lippes coat for the occasion, told WWD Monday that it “arrived all crushed.”
He remembered that it seemed to have been laying in snowdrifts for a week or so. I had to rush to remake it, of course. Due to the way it was built, it was not truly repairable.
Before the big day, Melania’s stylist, HervĂ© Pierre, sent her a brand-new hat, which Javits described as “a little bit of a cliffhanger.”