Fashion Critics of Melania Trump's Shoes

Washington, DC in the era of President Trump has become known as "The Swamp" to the American public, not especially a town synonymous with glamour or even fashion.

With the arrival of First Lady Melania Trump — whose unapologetically fabulous and stylish await has captured the attention and imagination of the world — the town has certainly stepped upwardly its game in the glamour department.

"A personal invite to the fashion event from the Czech administrator's married woman," the discipline line of an email reads in my inbox. A manner issue? In Washington, DC? At the Czech Republic's embassy? Only in the Trump era, where the impossible has been made possible, could such a gathering be.

The invitation is from the impeccable (and inherently fashionable) Indira Gumarova, the married woman of Czech ambassador to the Usa, Hynek Kmoníček, and the party is for none other than Gumarova's close friend and Mrs. Trump'south favorite shoe designer: The world-renowned Manolo Blahnik of Czech and Spanish descent.

As I go far at the fashion gathering, the residence of the Czech embassy is almost exactly how motion picture director Sofia Coppola would imagine it to be for one of her films. Grand, chic, creature skins on the walls that party guests told me Ambassador Kmoníček is responsible for.

And across the room is Gumarova, the life of the political party, talking in her rich Eastern European accent to a oversupply of partygoers about the drove of Manolo Blahnik pumps, mules, strappy stilettos, and kitten heels (Fashion heaven!) that are on display in her home for the party.

Beautiful Czech women in an array of colorful frocks and fur coats (unusual for the buttoned-upwardly, conservative town of Washington, D.C.) and older men with clean-cut facial pilus in tailored suits fill the rooms of the Czech residence.

Myself, in black and white (of course), defenseless the eye of Gumarova but as I had taken a glimpse of some of the Manolo Blahnik heels.

"You must come run into the shoes!" Gumarova exalts to me. The Czech administrator's wife (similar me) is a genuine fan of fashion. For the political party she wore a sequined club dress with giant, draping sleeves and a custom-fabricated pair of Manolo Blahnik pointed-toe stilettos that were signed by the designer on the arch of the shoe.

The Manolo Blahnik shoes are difficult not to stare at, even if your fashion sense does not go beyond khakis and polos bought from Target.

Certainly the most exquisite in the room was a pair of never-before-revealed silver slingbacks that have yet to become available to the mass audience. On the décolletage of the shoe are jewels that look as though they were taken from Princess Diana of Wales' tiara.

"These are so exclusive, they don't even have a price yet," Gumarova told me of the slingbacks.

In another casing sat six pairs of shoes. Two of the pairs were famously showcased on the HBO hitting prove "Sexual activity and the City," and ane of the encased pairs is a favorite of Mrs. Trump.

I was told past a couple of attendees that Mrs. Trump supposedly has an account with Manolo Blahnik where she is able to readily get pumps and stilettos to vesture. The pair of navy suede stilettos — the sleekest and simplest of the drove — is the chosen favorite of Mrs. Trump.

"She has these in every color," Gumarova says of Mrs. Trump every bit she points to the heels. Indeed, Manner Notes has repeatedly written nigh the former Slovenian-built-in models' love for this specific fix of stilettos.

"Who has better mode? Melania Trump or Michelle Obama?" ane woman in a beautiful silver, floor-length wrap clothes asks me. "Melania, without a doubt," I respond. Just looking at the shoes she wears to correspond the U.s.a. practically answers the question for you.

Hither she is wearing different versions of the classic Manolo Blahnik pump, which retail for about $500:

U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by U.S. first lady Melania Trump, second from right, and Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan, right, arrives for a country dinner at the Great Hall of the People, Thursday, Nov. nine, 2017, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

President Donald Trump, left, accompanied past first lady Melania Trump, 2nd from left, takes a question from a reporter as he welcomes Australian Prime Government minister Malcolm Turnbull in the Oval Part at the White House, Friday, February. 23, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photograph/Andrew Harnik)

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U.S. commencement lady Melania Trump and her South Korean counterpart Kim Jung-sook, third from left, are greeted by their countries' children at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Nov. seven, 2017. (AP Photo/Ahn Immature-joon)

The states President Donald Trump and his wife Melania walk to lath Marine Ane as they depart the White House in Washington, DC, on July 5, 2017 for Poland and Deutschland. / AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM

U.s. President Donald Trump and Us Kickoff Lady Melania Trump make it for a concert at the Elbphilharmonie concert hall during the G20 Acme in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017. (PATRIK STOLLARZ/AFP/Getty Images)

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Showcased alongside Mrs. Trump's favorite pump are the blue, silver-buckled "Sex and the City" pumps, a pair of hot pink kitten heels that are reminiscent of the "sexy pilgrim" shoes Manolo Blahnik designed for Isaac Mizrahi in the late 1980's, and a Marie Antoinette-fashion slingback that Gumarova says are solely for display, not for wearing.

Fashion for the sake of staring, how charming!

As I made my style to the other side of the Czech residence, a pair of nearly $x,000 Manolo Blahnik lizard, lace-upward heels saturday on a coffee table. These heels, like the Marie Antoinette pair, are not to be worn.

For any heart-class American, like myself, standing next to a pair of shoes that cost more than a used car is not but jaw-dropping, just it's a fantasy. "Is this my life?" you enquire yourself in the moment.

Awaiting in the fifth room of the Czech residence is a display of 3 strappy Manolo Blahnik stilettos, ane in fuschia, 1 in red, and the center pair in gold.

"I take a pair that I wear," a alpine, beautiful Czech woman told me at the political party. "They're so comfortable, more than comfortable than Christian Louboutins," her as as beautiful friend, also a Czech immigrant, says.

The two women, one of which is a fashion designer, go on to tell me that like the shoes adjacent to us, Czech compages is filled with life, color, and beauty.

"Growing up under communism, all the buildings [in the Czech Commonwealth] were grayness and ugly," the woman says during our chat. "When communism ended and because of the ascent of capitalism, the buildings got colour and are cute now," she says with a smile.

Gumarova eventually shuffles me upstairs to a private screening of the yet-to-exist-released documentary on Manolo Blahnik's life and career, titled "Manolo: The Male child Who Made Shoes for Lizards."

I captured a short glimpse of some of the shoe imagery included in the documentary:

Among other things, the excellent film notes that it was Princess Diana in June 1994 who fabricated Manolo Blahnik a household name when she wore her famous "Revenge Dress."

Diana wore the sexy black velvet cocktail dress with matching Manolo Blahnik stilettos on the same day that Prince Charles had allegedly admitted his infidelities. The ensemble would go down in history as 1 of the most iconic looks ever worn by the tardily Princess of Wales.

That was the 1990's. It'southward now 2018 and Diana, unfortunately, is not around to strut down the streets of London in Manolo Blahniks. The world has changed.

Simply, fortunately for Americans and the world, quite frankly, Mrs. Trump has arrived on the scene to take over as the leading unofficial ambassador for the shoe designer.

"She'south so elegant," Gumarova says of Melania, as I'm just most to walk out the door. Her elegance, like Diana'south did, has extended past the rooms of the White House and into the midst of the country. This cocktail party is emblematic of that influence.

Finally, glamour is dorsum.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder .

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